Alim Seytoff is vice president of the Uyghur American Association, a Washington-based advocacy organization. It was established in 1998 by a group of Uyghur scholars to raise the public awareness of the Uyghur people in East Turkistan, or Xianxiang Province in western China, and the other parts of the world. He joins us from Washington DC. [wikipedia]

Also joining the conversation from DC is Harry Wu, the Founder and Executive Director of the Laogai Research Foundation and a leading human rights activist.

A Uyghur exhibition is opening on November 12^th at the Laogai Museum in Washington, DC. We'd like to take this opportunity to discuss the issues raised by the exhibition. The organizers are showing Stuart Tanner's award-winning documentary Death on the Silk Road during the exhibition as well as displaying a panel on the effects of nuclear testing for the Uyhgur population.