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May 30, 2009, religion and rights symposium held in Knox College in Toronto, Canada. This symposium brought together scholars, believers and rights advocates, examined issues of control and persecution as well as the role of religions as civil society organizations building human rights in China. At first panel, Dr. Pitman Potter, a professor of Law at UBC Law Faculty and HongKong Bank Chair in Asian research at UBC’s institute of Asian

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May 30, 2009, religion and rights symposium held in Knox College in Toronto, Canada. This symposium brought together scholars, believers and rights advocates, examined issues of control and persecution as well as the role of religions as civil society organizations building human rights in China. At first panel, Dr. Pitman Potter, a professor of Law at UBC Law Faculty and HongKong Bank Chair in Asian research at UBC’s institute of Asian research gave keynote speech about Human rights and religion in China. Joseph Tse-Lee, professor of history and co-director of East Asian studies at Place University in New York speak about patterns of Chirstian activisim in modern China. Second panel speakers international human rights lawyer David Matas, Dr.Michael Dillon from global journalism Institute of Tsinghua University and Rukiye Turdush , the president of Uyghur Canadian Society gave interesting and informed speech about Falun dafa, Islam and Uyghurs. Specially, the Uyghur issue cause high interest of Symposium participants and brought good comments and questions.

Rukiye Turdush speak about religous dominance of CCP and explained the behind the scene of brutal religious oppression in East Trukistan and argued that eroding identity of Uyghurs is not the only goal or at least not the immediate main interest of harsh religious policy of China. She pointed that China’s main and immediate target of repressive religious policy is to eliminate the political freedom of Uyghurs. Unlike Hui Muslims in China Uyghur issue is not only the ethnic identity issue between two nations, it is a political issue, historical issue, land issue and issue of race. She also discussed the several aspects of the impact of religious oppression that both devastated Uyghur population and threatened the Chinese government. At the end she answered the questions of Symposium participants.uygur

, Voice of a Nation

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