Uyghur Genocide: The Ongoing Efforts for Accountability
Time: March 6, 2024, 6 p.m. - 8 p.m.
Location: Watson 036 (with virtual option)
Babur Ilchi (Program Manager, UHRP)
Elfidar Iltebir (President, Uyghur American Association)
Tursunay Ziyawudun (Camp Survivor)
Julie Milsap (Gov. Relations Mgr., Uyghur Human Rights Project)
Since 2017, the government of China has carried out genocide and crimes against humanity against the Uyghur people, arbitrarily detaining an estimated 1.8–3 million Uyghurs and other Turkic peoples in camps with hundreds of thousands more imprisoned. Uyghurs have been subject to arbitrary detention, enforced disappearances, forced labor, torture, sexual violence, coercive birth prevention campaigns, and the widespread destruction of cultural and religious sites.
Atrocity Studies in the School of Education hosts this public discussion around the ongoing Uyghur genocide and the global response, as well as what more is needed from the international community to pursue accountability for these crimes. Moderated by Milsap, the panel includes a camp survivor and eyewitness to the brutalities carried out in the Uyghur homeland.
Additional supporters:
- Citizenship / Civic Engagement
- History
- College of Law Journal of Global Rights and Organizations / Impunity Watch News
- College of Law Office of International Programs
- Lender Center
- Native American Studies
- PARCC
- Political Science
- Religion
- Social Sciences Ph.D. Program
- Syracuse University Humanities Center