Our Primary Accounts section archives the stories, interviews, and testimonies of Uyghurs, Kazakhs, and others who have experienced extrajudicial detention in Xinjiang. In this thread, we will sample some of the stories you can find here. 1/5
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Baimurat did not know what he signed up for when he was recruited to work for the local Public Secretary Bureau. He was unaware that he had agreed to start policing his local, Uyghur and Kazakh, community members. 2/5
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Sedik was summoned to a town hall. The government told her, she had been recruited to teach Chinese to "illiterates". She signed the confidentiality agreement required for work and unknowingly committed to teaching at a vocational training centre. 3/5
thediplomat.com/2020/08/confes
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For Muslims in China’s re-education camps, indoctrination starts with early morning patriotic songs and sessions of self-criticism, and often ends with a meal of only pork, according to one exiled former detainee. 4/5
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This chronicle traces the lives of a “model” Uyghur family’s experience of everyday racism, increasing violence, and eventual internment in “reeducation” facilities despite toeing the party line at every turn. 5/5
nytimes.com/2020/01/29/mag
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