Have you heard of Uighurs? Because this could be one of the greatest human rights tragedies right now. They are an ethnic Muslim minority group in the semi-autonomous northwestern province of Xiajiang in China. Since 2016, about three million Uighurs and other ethnic minority groups have been swept up in probably the largest incarceration of an ethno-religious minority since the Holocaust. Exiled Uighurs and researchers have described this as a genocide. Accusations have emerged of a multiplicity of potential crimes being perpetrated by China, including murder, enslavement, wrongful imprisonment, torture, rape and other sexual violence, enforced sterilization, enforced disappearance, separation of children from their parents, forced marriage and other crimes including forced organ harvesting. Joining Dahlia Kurtz on The Goods, is someone who has lived through this and escaped it, while her family has been left behind: Raziya Mahmut - a full-time biologist but still keeps up with her advocacy, as the vice president of International Support For Uygers. She has two masters degrees and a Ph.D. in biology. She speaks Uighur, Mandarin, French, English, Turkish, Kazak, Uzbek. And did all this against all odds.

<p>Have you heard of Uighurs? Because this could be one of the greatest human rights tragedies right now. They are an ethnic Muslim minority group in the semi-autonomous northwestern province of Xiajiang in China. Since 2016, about three million Uighurs and other ethnic minority groups have been swept up in probably the largest incarceration of an ethno-religious minority since the Holocaust. Exiled Uighurs and researchers have described this as a genocide. Accusations have emerged of a multiplicity of potential crimes being perpetrated by China, including murder, enslavement, wrongful imprisonment, torture, rape and other sexual violence, enforced sterilization, enforced disappearance, separation of children from their parents, forced marriage and other crimes including forced organ harvesting. Joining Dahlia Kurtz on The Goods, is someone who has lived through this and escaped it, while her family has been left behind: Raziya Mahmut - a full-time biologist but still keeps up with her advocacy, as the vice president of International Support For Uygers. She has two masters degrees and a Ph.D. in biology. She speaks Uighur, Mandarin, French, English, Turkish, Kazak, Uzbek. And did all this against all odds.</p>

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