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The Chief Witness: escape from China’s modern-day concentration camps by Sayragul Sauytbay
4.0
The Chief Witness: Escape from China’s Modern-Day Concentration Camps by Sayragul Sauytbay is such a necessary piece of writing. This covers an ongoing genocide of Uyghurs, Kazakhs, and other Muslim ethnic groups in China's northwesternmost province, East Turkestan (also known as its colonized name, Xinjiang). So packed full of information that has given me the knowledge to feel confident in my perspective and to advocate for the victims of this crime against humanity and hopefully spread the word so others learn and resist it as well.
Sauytbay covers everything from her childhood before the majority of the prejudice to her young adulthood facing some discrimination, travel restriction, and religious practice oppression all the way to complete surveillance, detention, torture, medical experimentation, all the trademarks of a genocide.
If you're not convinced by the absolute necessity of reading this to better inform yourself on this preventable violence, the memoir itself is good *shrugs*. If that's what you needed to hear to want to pick this up.
content warnings for: cultural genocide, physical and mental torture, starvation, Islamophobia, sexual violence, gang rape (described on page), sexual coercion, medical experimentation, poisoning, authoritarian government regime.
Sauytbay covers everything from her childhood before the majority of the prejudice to her young adulthood facing some discrimination, travel restriction, and religious practice oppression all the way to complete surveillance, detention, torture, medical experimentation, all the trademarks of a genocide.
If you're not convinced by the absolute necessity of reading this to better inform yourself on this preventable violence, the memoir itself is good *shrugs*. If that's what you needed to hear to want to pick this up.
content warnings for: cultural genocide, physical and mental torture, starvation, Islamophobia, sexual violence, gang rape (described on page), sexual coercion, medical experimentation, poisoning, authoritarian government regime.