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Elise Anderson
@AndersonEliseM
Expert on Uyghur issues working in intl dev and human rights | Occasional translator/interpreter (Uy-En) and performer | Dr. Dr. to you
Jul 4, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Master Uyghur musician Sultan Memet, who came to Brighton Beach, NY, as a political refugee from Uzbekistan in the early 2000s, passed away from complications related to Covid on June 30, 2000. May he Rest In Peace.💔 rfa.org/uyghur/xewerle… Here’s a video of him performing an excerpt from a muqam suite on tembur and vocals
May 22, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
6 yrs ago today, an attack at a market near the URC People's Park in Ürümchi. I woke up to the news a few km away & felt afraid. So many things changed. The city & region grew more securitized; the era of "People's War on Terror" and 便民卡 soon followed bbc.com/news/world-asi… There are many watershed moments in the #Uyghur region's recent history. This is one. So much fear was born that day. My own never went away; instead it morphed into something ambiguous, agitated constantly by the security forces stationed @ street corners, marching thru the city
Dec 7, 2019 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
I am the woman referenced in this tweet, and I *most definitely* speak about human rights for Uyghurs, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, Tajiks, and other oppressed peoples. Read more of my response below:
⬇️⬇️⬇️ I studied—past tense. This video (from 10-min docu) is from a diff time: was filmed by CRI Eng in Nov 2015 and released in Feb 2016. I came back to US in Jul 2016. Since then camp system has exploded, people and insts have disappeared, Americans like myself have been forced out.