Adrian Zenz was one of the first researchers to reveal the extent, size and scope of the internment camps in East Turkistan where starting in 2017 more than 1.5 million Uyghurs and Turkic Muslims were detained. He exposed the Xinjiang Police Files in 2022, a trove of Chinese government documents that provides details on the internment camps. He is also an expert on China’s policy towards Tibetans and has written on Tibetan education system, Tibetan identity and presence of mass coerced labor camps in Tibet.
Dr. Zenz will speak on East Turkistan and Tibet, his research, the current situation with regards to the internment camps in East Turkistan which peaked in 2018, the policy of forced assimilation which remains at the heart of Chinese government and CCP policy in Tibet and East Turkistan, and the intersection of academia and advocacy.
Date: Thursday, November 14, 2024
Time: 8:00 am (Minnesota). 07:30 pm (New Delhi)
Event Type: Live Podcast (YouTube, Facebook and LinkedIn)
Speaker:
Dr. Adrian Zenz
Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation
Senior Fellow & Director in China Studies
Moderator:
Sakina Batt
Host, Freedom Hour, AFI
Live Video Podcast Links:
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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/asia-freedom-institute/
Biographies:
Adrian Zenz
Adrian Zenz is Senior Fellow and Director in China Studies at the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, Washington, D.C. (non-resident). His research focus is on China’s ethnic policy, Beijing’s campaign of mass internment, securitization and forced labor in East Turkistan, public recruitment and coercive poverty alleviation in Tibet and East Turkistan, and China’s domestic security budgets. Dr. Zenz is the author of Tibetanness under Threat and co-editor of Mapping Amdo: Dynamics of Change. He has played a leading role in the analysis of leaked Chinese government documents, including the “China Cables,” the “Karakax List,” the “Xinjiang Papers,” and the “Xinjiang Police Files.”
Dr. Zenz has provided expert testimony to the governments of Germany, France, the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States. He has written on forced labor in cotton picking, population optimization and birth prevention in East Turkistan. On Tibet, his work includes mass and coerced militarized vocational training and assimilation policy in Tibet. Dr. Zenz serves as an advisor to the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China and has a PhD from the University of Cambridge.
Sakina Batt
Sakina Batt is a Producer and Director at Meeting Point, a leading audio-visual production house and buying agency in Nepal and host of Freedom Hour, an initiative of the Asia Freedom Institute. She directs promotional videos, does voice overs, writes scripts and copywriting for the videos in Meeting Point. Sakina worked for Tibet TV at the Central Tibetan Administration in India for four years (2017-2021) where she served as a news presenter and an interview host. She also made short documentaries for the channel, wrote scripts, conducted research, edited videos and anchored the show In Conversation with Tibet TV. Sakina has a Masters in Mass Communication from Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi and a bachelors from Delhi University.
