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In view of China's expansive economic policy and theever increasing importance of global trade relations,the question of human rights often lags far behind. TheUyghurs, in particular, who live in northwestern China,have suffered discrimination and oppression for manyyears and fear for their culture and ethnic identity. TheChinese government, which has always justified itsrepressive policies with the assertion that it is protectingstate security, has drastically increased the pressure andsurveillance in recent years and has locked hundreds ofthousands of Uyghurs and members of other Muslimminorities in so-called re-education camps. But evenbefore that, when the world was still barely aware of thefate of the Uyghurs, there were constant injustices.The stories in this book take a look behind the scenes.They accompany a number of Uyghurs in their dailylives and let the reader participate in their harrowingexperiences.
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Epilogue to the 2021 EditionWhen Party Secretary Chen Quanguo was transferred to Xinjiang at the end of 2016, he immediately began to implement his surveillance concept, tried and tested in Tibet, on an even larger scale and with more modern means. New police stations were built on nearly every street corner. Video surveillance with facial recognition software, DNA samples, mobile phone apps and the like soon ensured seamless mass surveillance and the arbitrary arrest of hundreds of thousands of Uyghurs and members of other Muslim minorities. As early as 2017, huge complexes sprang up across the country, the so-called "re-education camps", because all prisons had long been overcrowded. For a long time, the Chinese government vehemently denied the existence of such camps. But when satellite images finally showed the world where and how big they were, it was claimed that they were training centers where students learned wonderful things and were happy. The camps were cordoned off over a large area, journalists were not given access, and since from then on any contact with relatives or friends in foreign countries was extremely dangerous for the Uyghurs, there were hardly any reliable eyewitness reports.In November 2019, the "China Cables" were disclosed, confidential documents of the Communist Party, including detailed instructions on the operation of the detention camps and information on surveillance databases, which proved that all these suppressive measures were being carried out at the express instructions of Xi Jinping and the central government in Beijing: The Uighurs should finally and forever lose their ethnic identity, forget their language, culture, religion, their thinking and their self-respect.
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Ingrid Widiarto was born in Schleswig in 1947. She grew up in Kiel, graduated in Germersheim as a translator for Romance languages and worked as a translator and secretary, for many years at the Free University of Berlin.Through family and traveling she got to know different countries and cultures, and when she learnt about the precarious living conditions of the Uyghurs in worthwest China, it upset her so much that she set herself the task of drawing attention to it. So she began to write books und stories and to maintain a website:https://www.uigurkultur.com/
