Anti-genocide activists staged a sit-in for Palestine at Waterloo Station in London. | The Eye Of Palestine

The Uyghur genocide in China can be hard to grasp. In an unprecedented, five-part series, the poet Tahir Hamut Izgil gives a firsthand account of one of the world’s most urgent humanitarian crises—and his family’s escape to America. “It is not an easy thing to leave your homeland in your 40s and start life anew. While we had never spoken openly about it, we both knew that if we left, we might never be able to return.” http://on.theatln.tc/CafaBkh | The Atlantic