Australian Uyghurs have rallied in front of the federal parliament in Canberra on Monday, calling for the Australian government to recognize what Beijing is doing in the Xinjiang region as a genocide. “If they don’t listen now, a whole community, the whole Uyghur nation, is going to disappear,” Ramila Chanisheff, president of the Australian Uyghur Tangritagh Women’s Association, told AAP. “This is the 21st century. How does genocide occur in the 21st century?” Chanisheff has not seen her cousins for 10 years. She said everyone who came to the rally have families or friends who disappeared in Xinjiang. “There’s over 380 concentration camps in the region. Over 500,000 children have been taken away from parents into state-run orphanages to be raised as Chinese,” she said. Chanisheff also said that estimates that one million Uyghurs were being held illegally in the Xinjiang region as CCP “propaganda.” She noted that according to …