OF RIGHTS ABUSES AND THE U.S.
SLAPPING SANCTIONS ON CHINESE
COMPANIES SUSPECTED OF BEING
COMPLACENT UIGHURS, AND HER
FATHER IS A UIGHURS WITH A LIFE
SENTENCE IN CHINA AND, WELCOME
TO THE PROGRAM HERE.
SEVEN YEARS AGO, 2013, YOUR
FATHER WAS TAKEN PRISONER.
YOU CAME TO INDIANA SHORTLY
THEREAFTER.
WHAT DO YOU REMEMBER FROM THAT
SEPARATION?
>> 2013, FEBRUARY 2ND, WAS LAST
TIME I SAW MY FATHER AT THE
BEIJING INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT.
HE WAS BY THE UNIVERSITY OF AND
I WAS ONLY PLANNING TO ACCOMPANY
HIM AND SPENT THREE WEEKS AS A
VACATION, BUT AS A TEENAGER,
APPEARED TO HAVE NO THREATS TO
THE GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS.
I WAS ALLOWED TO LEAVE THE
COUNTRY, BUT MY FATHER WAS
ARRESTED AT THE AIRPORT.
THEN, HE STARTED 11 MONTHS OF
HOUSE ARREST TIME AND IN
AUSTRIA, HE WAS TAKEN AWAY FROM
OUR APARTMENT IN BEIJING.
AND THEN HE WAS CHARGED FOR
SEPARATISM, RELATED CHARGES AND
NOW HE’S SERVING A LIFE
SENTENCE.
>> Bill: THE LAST TIME YOU SAW
HIM WAS 2017.
THAT WAS TWO YEARS AGO.
WHY WOULD THE CHINESE COMMUNIST
GOVERNMENT CONSIDER HIM TO BE A
THREAT?
HE WAS RUNNING A WEBSITE THAT
WAS APPARENTLY THE BRIDGE THE
CULTURE GAP BETWEEN UIGHURS AND
CHINA.
AND NATIVE CHINESE.
WHY WOULD THAT BE?
>> FIRST OF ALL, MY FATHER WAS A
WELL-KNOWN ECONOMICS PROFESSOR
AT BEIJING UNIVERSITY.
HE WAS WELL KNOWN FOR HIS
PEACEFUL SUGGESTIONS AND HIS
WEBSITE.
SO HE WAS TRYING BY BUILDING
THIS WEBSITE, HE WANTED TO
PROVIDE A PLATFORM FOR THE
PEOPLE, THE UIGHURS AND OTHER
MINORITIES TO CREATE
UNDERSTANDING WITH EACH OTHER.
PLATFORM LIKE FACEBOOK, TWITTER
OR BAN AN OLSON BIRCH ENGINES
LIKE GOOGLE.
SO THE INFORMATION IN CHINA CAN
HAVE ACCESS.
THERE IS ONLY ONE TYPE OF
INFORMATION, AND THAT HIS TV.
AND OF COURSE, THAT CREATES
VARIOUS INFORMATION’S TO THE
CHINESE CITIZENS.
AND PEOPLE WITH UNDERSTANDING
PEOPLE MIGHT HAVE OF HATE,
CREATED HATE WITH EACH OTHER.
MY FATHER WANTED TO USE THIS
WEBSITE TO CREATE UNDERSTANDING
AND TO PROMOTE PEACEFUL DIALOGUE
OR COEXISTENCE BETWEEN THE
UIGHURS PEOPLE AND TRAINEES.
>> Bill: LET ME ASK YOU, YOU
HAVE SEEN THIS VIDEO, RIGHT?
YOU HAVE SEEN THIS VIDEO OF
THESE UIGHURS FROM 2019 THAT I
MENTIONED IT.
WHAT YOU THINK WAS HAPPENING
THERE?
>>  I BELIEVE THAT WAS A
TRANSFORMATION OF PEOPLE FROM
ONE CAMP TO ANOTHER CAMP.
AND I THINK THIS IS A PERFECT --
PROVING THE ASSISTANCE OF
SO-CALLED CAN’T CAMPS BUT I CALL
IT A CONCENTRATION CAMP.
>> Bill: YOU ARE RECEIVING AN
AWARD THIS WEEK.
VICTIMS OF COMMUNISM MEMORIAL
FOUNDATION.
WHAT DOES THAT MEAN TO YOU?
>> THIS AWARD, JUST LIKE EVERY
OTHER WARD MY FATHER HAD
RECEIVED DOES NOT ONLY
ACKNOWLEDGE MY FATHER’S WORK AND
HIS BRAVE NESTS, BUT IT ALSO
SHEDS LIGHT ON THE UIGHURS
CAUSE.
AND IT BRINGS ATTENTION FROM
INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY TO THE
UIGHURS CAUSE.
NOW THIS IS WHAT THE UIGHURS
PEOPLE NEED.
AND MY FATHER IS NOT THE ONLY
PERSON HERE OR THERE ARE
THOUSANDS OF HUNDREDS OF UIGHURS
JUST LIKE MY FATHER ARE LOCKED
UP IN A PRISON OR CONCENTRATION
CAMP.
THERE ARE HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS
OF DAUGHTERS AND SONS JUST LIKE
ME THAT CAN’T SEE THEIR PARENTS,
CANNOT CALL THEIR PARENTS AND
CANNOT COMMUNICATE.
THEY DON’T EVEN KNOW JUST LIKE
ME IF THEIR PARENTS ARE ALIVE OR
NOT.
>> Bill: WELL MET, YOU ARE
BRAVE, THANK YOU FOR SHARING
