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Waiting to be arrested at night : a Uyghur poet's memoir of China's genocide

Waiting to be arrested at night : a Uyghur poet's memoir of China's genocide

Book 2023

"One by one, Tahir Hamut Izgil's friends disappeared. The Chinese government's brutal persecution of the Uyghur people had continued for years, but in 2017 it assumed a terrifying new scale. The Uyghurs, a predominantly Muslim minority group in western China, were experiencing an echo of the worst horrors of the twentieth century, amplified by China's establishment of an all-seeing high-tech surveillance state. Over a million people have vanished...