Director - Int’l Dev. MA at @elliottschoolgw. Central Asia, Uyghurs. Book - 'The War on the Uyghurs' - @PrincetonUPress & @ManchesterUP; #BillsMafia
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Very well reported story on how new Starbucks in Urumchi stands on property confiscated from a private Uyghur company during mass internment / incarceration campaign a few years ago. Taken and sold at auction to a single state company bidder. kozet.org/starbucks-urumqi-s…
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With a background in the U.S. Army and aspirations of law school, Cristian Payan currently takes on International Development Studies here at the Elliott School. Learn more about Cristian in his #WeAreElliott profile. ow.ly/1pFW50ZSNJs
ALT Cristian Payan in a grey suit, white collar shirt with a blue knitted tie, smiling with the background of downtown Arlington, VA.
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Official Central Asia Trip Day 1: Organization of Turkic States (OTS) Secretariat, Istanbul
中央アジア公式訪問初日: テュルク諸国機構事務局(経由地イスタンブールにて)
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8月11日、タジキスタン・キルギス訪問の経由地であるイスタンブールで、乗継時間を利用してテュルク諸国機構（OTS）事務局を訪問しました。動画では、オムラリエフ事務局長はキルギス語、私はウイグル語でお話ししています。いずれもテュルク系の言語です。
クバヌチュベク・オムラリエフ事務局長に温かくお迎えいただき、中央アジア・コーカサス地域との関係強化や、「進化した自由で開かれたインド太平洋（FOIP）」について、約1時間にわたり意見交換を行いました。
会談では、テュルク諸国の歴史や文化についてもご紹介いただき、中央アジアとのつながりについて改めて考える貴重な機会となりました。動画の中では、FOIPが目指す「自由で開かれた」という価値について意見を交わす場面もあります。
この後、深夜便でタジキスタンへ向かいました。
On 11 August, I visited the Secretariat of the Organization of Turkic States (OTS) in Istanbul and had the pleasure of meeting H.E. Secretary-General Kuban Omuraliev and his colleagues.
We spoke in Kyrgyz and Uyghur—both Turkic languages—and discussed Japan–Central Asia and Japan–Caucasus relations, as well as the updated Free and Open Indo-Pacific (FOIP) framework, for over an hour.
Rehmet, Kuban aka!
📷: OTS Secretariat
Sean R. Roberts retweeted
#BREAKING
In a third round of restricted ballot, UN General Assembly ELECTS 🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan as a non-permanent member of the Security Council for a two-year term beginning in January 2027.
ALT General Assembly elects non-permanent members of the Security Council.
Sean R. Roberts retweeted
#RahileDawut，维吾尔族，新疆大学教授，国际知名维吾尔民俗学家，"精英灭绝"之一
2017年12月离开乌鲁木齐前往北京，此后再无音讯 （得知她被拘留）
2018年12月被以"分裂国家罪"判处无期徒刑，上诉法院驳回
因其在狱中遭受酷刑或心理压力，其身体健康出现严重问题 #良心犯 #一人一推
Sean R. Roberts retweeted
Beijing has not dismantled its machinery of repression in Xinjiang but recalibrated it. foreignpolicy.com/2026/04/16…
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#ChimengülAwut，著名维吾尔诗人，编辑，"精英灭绝"之一
她的诗"无回归之路"在2008年获得了突力帕尔文学奖
2018年7月因参与编辑维吾尔族著名作家Halide Isra'il的小说而被逮捕，送"集中营"关押
尽管她一直被拘留，没有通过任何正式的法律程序 #良心犯 #一人一推
Sean R. Roberts retweeted
A former Chinese police officer has come forward with firsthand testimony and photographic evidence of what he witnessed supervising Uyghur forced labor in cotton fields.
Conditions worse than prison. Refusal met with threats of detention. The CCP told the world these practices had ended.
Thank you to Dr. @adrianzenz and the @VoCommunism for making sure it cannot stay hidden.
wwd.com/sourcing-journal/ind…
A very important rebuttal to the piece by @vijayprashad and @t_ing on the situation of Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims in the Uyghur region of China. There is no source on the left more authoritative on the history and present situation of Uyghurs inside China than @Dave_Brophy
My fuller response to @vijayprashad and @t_ings’s piece on #Xinjiang in @monthly_review. Thanks to @tempest_mag for publishing. tempestmag.org/2026/04/dismi…
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My fuller response to @vijayprashad and @t_ings’s piece on #Xinjiang in @monthly_review. Thanks to @tempest_mag for publishing. tempestmag.org/2026/04/dismi…
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A Kazakh court today convicted 19 citizens of Kazakhstan for participating in a peaceful protest against human rights abuses in Chinese-occupied East Turkistan.
Sean R. Roberts retweeted
“Court In Kazakhstan Finds All 19 Defendants Guilty For Anti-China Protests”
Via @RFERL
Read for more rferl.org/a/court-kazakhstan…
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In a trial that could be the latest bellwether for growing Chinese influence in Kazakhstan, 19 activists who organized demonstrations against China's mass internment camps in Xinjiang are expected to be sentenced by a Kazakh court. trib.al/hi4HHYV
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It’s true that these issues don’t particularly impact the substance of the piece. But the substance is as flawed as the referencing - e.g. this gross minimization of the scale and nature of incarceration in Xinjiang. “Several people”? And all for “violent activities”?
Errors often happen with citations for several reasons, carelessness being the most frequent. Now, with the apparent ease of the internet and artificial intelligence, these blunders can creep in at much higher rates. We apologise for the errors in some of our citations, which have been now corrected on the @monthly_review website:
Barring a correction to one paragraph, none of these faults alter the article itself nor blunt the force of our argument, behind which we stand 100%.
Tings Chak (@t_ings) and Vijay Prashad.
monthlyreview.org/articles/t…
Sean R. Roberts retweeted
I had some issues with the politics of this piece. But as I read into it, I encountered some issues with its sources as well. For example, the authors cite a “landmark essay” from 2019 by the Chinese intellectual Wang Hui 汪晖. But I can't find the essay they refer to.
Tings Chak and I from Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research write the Review of the Month in the April issue of the journal Monthly Review on "The Idea of the 'Uyghur Genocide' and the Realities of Xinjiang". We end with a consideration of the need for politics in debates around ethnicity. See our essay here, monthlyreview.org/articles/t….
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Эдиль Байсалов освобожден от ранее занимаемой должности заместителя председателя Кабинета министров и назначен послом Кыргызстана в США, сообщила пресс-служба Администрации президента.
t.me/fergananews/33635
#Кыргызстан
Sean R. Roberts retweeted
2026: Transnational repression against Pamiris continues pamirinside.org/14079
Sean R. Roberts retweeted
Trial of anti-#China protesters in #Kazakhstan about to finish, prosecutors requested five-year prison sentences for some of 19 Kazakhs on trial, non-custodial sentences for others. Background in my @eurasianet story, including interview with a defendant eurasianet.org/kazakhstan-an…
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Deeply grateful for the chance to present my work on Uyghur poetry and cultural erasure at @GWU Elliott School.
Literature isn’t just art- it’s resistance against silence.
Thank you @cap_gwu & @robertsreport for the warm welcome!
#Uyghur #UyghurLiterature #GWU
#CentralAsia
