Omer Kanat, Director of the Uyghur Human Rights Project presents “Who are the Uyghur people?”
Omer Kanat is a Uyghur human rights activist and director of the Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP), a research-based Uyghur human rights advocacy organization. The Uyghurs, Uighurs, or Uygurs are a Turkic ethnicity who live in East and Central Asia. Today, Uyghurs live primarily in the People’s Republic of China, where they are one of fifty-five officially recognized ethnic minorities. The fifth-most-populous ethnic group in China, they face governmental campaigns seeking to “re-educate” them in detention camps in an effort to gain tighter control of the resource-rich regions inhabited by the ethnic Uyghurs.
Co-sponsored by EKU Department of Languages, Cultures, & Humanities; Department of History, EKU Asian Studies Program; and the Inner Asian and Uralic National Resource Center at Indiana University, Bloomington (IAUNRC).
Event Date: February 13 12:30-1:30 pm / 7:00-8:00 pm Location: Crabbe Library Room 201/ O'Donnell Auditorium Cost: Free
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