Outstanding speaker and subject for our first WAD dinner

An illuminating yet ultimately emotionally disturbing presentation on a tragic human rights crisis many of us may know little about. Watching our speaker Rushan Abbas's energy and emotions mount during the Q&A make viewing the recording (on our website) of this segment of the presentation well worthwhile.

Kudos to our programs committee team member Marla Ahlgrimm for bringing this presentation to us and for leading an engaging audience questions segment.

Absolutely first rate presentation.

This presentation with Q&A was very revealing, nicely supplementing our tracking of the Uyghur crisis in China. Ms. Rushan Abbas proved to be a very effective representative for the plight of her people. A few introductory sentences regarding the historical aspects of East Turkistan and its population would have provided better insight for our audience.

One glaring observation from the presentation is the woeful ineffectiveness of the United Nations to deal with this issue of "crimes against humanity", given the pressure applied by the Chinese Government within that organization. Similar to the UN/WHO ineffectiveness to validate sources of the Covid-19 virus within China.

Perhaps the WACD could find a future speaker able to objectively share the current state of affairs and pros/cons for continuing support (or not) of the UN organization.