President Biden must intervene to resolve a decades-long family ordeal. Doing so will send a strong signal on a larger scale.
For the past two decades, I have lived with a heavy burden: My human rights advocacy has come at the cost of my family. My parents have been unable to see their American children and meet their grandchildren. I could not participate in my father's funeral after he passed away in April last year.
My late father remarked a few years ago that he wished he had passed away already so he could have left this world with good memories. It pains me beyond words that I could not be there to carry my father's casket in the end and to hold my mother to mourn together. Upon receiving the news of my father's passing, I still carried on with my trip on behalf of the U.S. government agency.
Supporters and members of the East Turkistan National Awakening Movement rally outside the White House to urge the United States to end trade deals with China and take action to stop the oppression of the Uyghur and other Turkic peoples in the region of Xinjiang, on August 14, 2020, in Washington, D.C. A State Department report published on August 24 said China was amplifying favourable narratives about Xinjiang as part of a disinformation campaign with global reach.
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