As a child, Muetter Iliqud fled China seeking a life of freedom. She had little choice, given her religion as a Uyghur—a largely Muslim minority group persecuted by the Chinese Communist Party.
Now a researcher at the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, Iliqud dedicates much of her time to uncovering the “systematic repression” of her people, she said during The China Forum, a recent annual event sponsored by the foundation.
Exposing the crimes of the Chinese Communist Party against Uyghurs is an ongoing fight, because Uyghurs as well as Chinese citizens in general “live in fear of the midnight knock,” in the words of author and Asian studies professor David Shambaugh, a keynote speaker at The China Forum.
“The midnight knock” is the dreaded sound that dissidents and religious minorities such as Uyghurs fear under the “extreme…
