Wuer Kaixi
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Wú'ěr Kāixī (吾爾開希 Uyghur: Uerkesh Daolet) (1968-) is a famous Uyghur student leader in the Tiananmen protests of 1989. He achieved prominence while studying at Beijing Normal University as a hunger striker who rebuked Premier of the People's Republic of China Li Peng on national television.
He fled to France and then studied at Harvard University in the United States. Afterward he emigrated to Taiwan, where he has started a family and continues to host radio programs. He also appears frequently on television programmes as a political commentator, who supports the idea of "One China Under Democracy" (that is, the reunification of mainland China and Taiwan under a democratic political system, which has been touted by the Pan-Blue Coalition in the past). He reportedly expressed his hope of taking part in Legislative Yuan elections as a representative of Kuomintang, which eventually did not nominate him as one of the party's candidates.
External link
- Witnessing Tiananmen: Student talks fail (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/3757433.stm) - BBC interviewja:ウーアルカイシzh:吾尔开希