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Posted February 7, 2022
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Winter Olympics / Uighur ‘genocide’
Aljazeera Media Network
2 Feb 2022
After he was arrested at the age of 20 in China’s Xinjiang and eventually escaped to Turkey in 2005, all Kuzzai Allay wanted was to live in peace in the United States, where he finally ended up in 2008.
But the Uighur refugee’s longing for a different life in his adopted homeland was disrupted in 2018 when he learned that his father had been taken by Chinese authorities from their home in Urumqi; Xinjiang’s capital.
“He disappeared for two years; I thought he was murdered in the camp,” Allay told Al Jazeera after his father was detained in one of a network of camps where the United Nations says at least a million Muslim Uighurs are believed to have been held against their will by authorities since 2017.
Since then, Allay has become one of the diaspora’s most remarkable Uighur human rights activists and leaders, speaking out on China’s alleged repression of Xinjiang’s Turkic-speaking minority as president of the Uyghur American Association.
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Amnesty International, which last week described the situation in Xinjiang as a “dystopian hellscape”, has also cautioned against the risk of “sports washing” as a result of the Games.
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Wu Bin, Azure Cliff with Red Maples – folding fan mounted as an album leaf – 1603. Ink and colour on paper. The Met Museum, New York.
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Curatorial Record:
A solitary figure with a walking staff stands atop a low cliff contemplating a mountain vista. This scene of human encounter with nature is accompanied by a verse by the celebrated Tang-dynasty poet Du Fu (710–770), inscribed by the painter:
The azure cliff catches the breeze, a lone cloud thin,
Red maples, their backs to the sun, ten thousand trees dense.
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