Conservative Casual Friday--The PRC's War against the Uighurs

During the last decade, the totalitarian People's Republic of China (PRC) has intensified its repression of 11 million Turkic-speaking Uighur and other Muslim minorities in the PRC's strategic western province of Xinjiang.  This oil- and resource-rich region, called East Turkistan by many Uighurs, is a logistical hub for the PRC's Belt and Road Initiative along the old Silk Road.  Here the PRC has constructed camps since 2014 that now hold perhaps as many as three million Uighurs.  Various measures like state suppression of Uighur births have caused many even to condemn PRC policies as genocide.  Rushan Abbas, a Uighur-American activist who founded the Campaign for Uyghurs, will discuss the Uighurs' terrible plight.  Why is the PRC abusing Uighurs?  What is the nature and extent of PRC oppression?  Who is profiting from Uighur slave labor?  How has the world community responded, particularly among the Uighurs' fellow Muslims?  What can Americans do?  Show host Andrew E. Harrod will examine these and other questions. 

UPDATE:  Campaign for Uyghurs Communications Director Julie Millsap will now participate in the interview in place of Rushan Abbas, who had a last minute schedule conflict.