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The film ‘Lost Nation: Stories from the Uyghur Diaspora’ now includes an interview with Rabiya Kadeer. Ms Kadeer had been a successful business woman in China before her views on human rights issues caused her to be imprisoned by the Chinese authorities. Ms Kadeer left China in 2005 for the United States where she is now the president of both the World Uyghur Congress and Uyghur American Association, becoming the most prominent Uyghur in the world today.

In this recording Rabiya Kadeer talks about how and why she left China and her hopes for the Uyghur people in Xinjiang (East Turkistan).

• Lost Nation: Stories from the Uyghur diaspora
• Interview with Rabiya Kadeer
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The web page for the video Lost Nation: Stories from the Uyghur diaspora has been updated to feature the interviews as 5 individual films. These can be viewed in a web browser (QuickTime or Flash format) or via iTunes.

• Lost Nation (full film)
• Riza Bekin, Istanbul
  Discusses personal migration and current human rights in China
• Anwar Rahman, Geneva
  Discusses personal migration and Uyghurs in Pakistan
• Enver Tohti, London
  Discusses personal migration and Uyghur Chinese relations
• Gulamettin Emet, New York
  Discusses his personal migration in 1940s to India, then Turkey and Germany before being the first Uyghur to settle in the USA
• Enver Can, Munich
  Discusses personal migration and treatment of Uyghurs in Afghanistan and China.

There will be a screening of the film ‘Lost Nation: Stories from the Uyghur Diaspora’ at the Nissan Lecture Theatre, St Antony’s College, University of Oxford, on Thursday, 31st May 6pm-7.30pm.

In the film, Five Uyghurs from five cities around the world tell their personal story of migration from Xinjiang (East Turkistan).

After the screening the film will be available along with other videos on the Forced Migration Online website.

For more information please visit:
http://www.forcedmigration.org/video/uyghur/