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Feb 2019
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Ep 140: The Walking Dead of East Turkest...

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We talk to Uyghur American activist, Aydin Anwar about the persecution Uyghur Muslims in East Turkestan are facing at the hands of the Chinese government.

Aydin Anwar is an Uyghur-American activist and a 4th year undergraduate at Duke University majoring in International Comparative Studies. She has focused a lot of her work on the plight of East Turkestan and its occupation through her fieldwork of Uyghur refugees in Turkey and organizing and speaking at conferences. She has appeared on Al-Jazeera, TRT World, and Now This - with her most recent piece regarding the concentration camps gaining over 60 million views worldwide. She also recently launched fundraiser campaign to support Uyghur orphans and women in Turkey and has raised over $71,000.

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