Posted on 01/12/2024 7:30:43 AM PST by MtnClimber
Tahir Hamut Izgil is a well known Uyghur poet who fled his country in 2017, just ahead of his almost certain arrest, torture, and internment in a Chinese concentration camp. With the help of his friend and translator Joshua L. Freeman, Izgil has written a detailed account of his and his people’s continuing persecution and internment. It is a story that most Americans would do well to read because it reveals irrefutable evidence of the ruthless and brutal nature of the situation in communist China today.
Izgil’s Waiting to Be Arrested at Night: A Uyghur Poet’s Memoir of China’s Genocide is a remarkable book. It is simple, direct, compelling, and informed by a lifetime of experience. In basic chronological order, it recounts the experience of Izgil and his family, friends, and associates through the years as the Chinese authorities instituted tighter and tighter control over the Uyghurs.
What began with the arrest and internment of outspoken critics of the communist party, especially those with strong religious beliefs, soon evolved into a pervasive system of informants, listening posts, block captains, and spies controlling every word and movement and punishing not just those “terrorists,” as they were called, who spoke out, but those who simply had contact with “foreigners,” and the family and friends of those who had contact.
Every phone call, every conversation, every piece of mail, every publication past or present was scrutinized and made the excuse for that midnight knock on the door. Especially for those who had traveled overseas, as had Izgil, or had overseas contacts, persecution was inevitable. It was only by way of perseverance in obtaining visas, government permission to travel “for medical purposes,” and luck that the author and his family managed to escape
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Hey Joe, thanks for selling out to china.
The thousands of Chinese illegals who have flooded across the southern border don't seem to have problems leaving China.
Coming soon to *your* neighborhood!
Not too hot on China’s government but they do seem quite aware of the threat posed by an uncontrolled Muslim minority in their country.
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