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...Beydulla is a political refugee in the United States and a Uyghur (pronounced WEE-gurr). Uyghurs are a minority in Western China who, like the Tibetans, are engaged in a struggle against the Chinese government for increased freedoms. During the 2007-2008 academic year, he participated in the Scholars at Risk program at Harvard and is now a language teacher for the East Asian Languages and Civilizations Department...
...allowed them to be demonized by Beijing since 9/11 in a way that is dangerous both to race relations at home and to their image abroad. "It's a systematic Chinese policy to portray Uighurs as splittists and terrorists," says Rebiya Kadeer, a businesswoman who now heads the Uyghur American Association and is the leader of an exile movement seeking greater rights for her roughly 9 million compatriots who live in Xinjiang. Kadeer was once a rich businesswoman in Xinjiang but fell afoul of the authorities and served a six-year jail sentence for revealing state secrets to foreigners...
...Toennesson also gives Ahtisaari?s cohort in the process, Indonesian president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, a 20% chance of taking the prize because he actually signed the deal. Human rights activist Rebiya Kadeer gets a 15% odds of winning for her leadership of the minority Uyghur population in northwest China...
...guest performances by Harvard’s Asian a cappella group C-Sharp and University of Pennsylvania’s Chinese a cappella group PennYo, a play on the word “peng you,” Chinese for “friend.” Erkin Y. Uyghur ’08 performed traditional music of his native Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in northwestern China. He said he is the “first and only” ethnic Uyghur at Harvard. “Since I got here last fall, I’m trying...