An absolutely harrowing account of Uyghur poet Tahir Hamut Izgil's final years in China, his friends disappearing one by one into internment "study" camps, before escaping to political asylum in the US in '17.
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Reminded me of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago.
Never in my wildest dreams I thought "study" would mean what it means in this article.
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Yes, reminded me of same. I found that I kept unconsciously reading this piece as if its events were occurring "in the past," i.e. decades ago—not roughly at present in an industrialized nation. Disorienting.
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Crazy how a totalitarian system systematically turns people against each other
“People eventually felt as though they were part of the police, with a taste for watching and reporting on one another…I began to sense this indistinctly in the people around me, and even in myself.”
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