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A shocking depiction of one of the world's most ruthless regimes -
and the story of one woman's fight to survive. I will never forget
the camp. I cannot forget the eyes of the prisoners, expecting me
to do something for them. They are innocent. I have to tell their
story, to tell about the darkness they are in. It is so easy to
suffocate us with the demons of powerlessness, shame, and guilt.
But we aren't the ones who should feel ashamed. Born in China's
north-western province, Sayragul Sauytbay trained as a doctor
before being appointed a senior civil servant. But her life was
upended when the Chinese authorities incarcerated her. Her crime:
being Kazakh, one of China's ethnic minorities. The north-western
province borders the largest number of foreign nations and is the
point in China that is the closest to Europe. In recent years it
has become home to over 1,200 penal camps - modern-day gulags that
are estimated to house three million members of the Kazakh and
Uyghur minorities. Imprisoned solely due to their ethnicity,
inmates are subjected to relentless punishment and torture,
including being beaten, raped, and used as subjects for medical
experiments. The camps represent the greatest systematic
incarceration of an entire people since the Third Reich. In prison,
Sauytbay was put to work teaching Chinese language, culture, and
politics, in the course of which she gained access to secret
information that revealed Beijing's long-term plans to undermine
not only its minorities, but democracies around the world. Upon her
escape to Europe she was reunited with her family, but still lives
under the constant threat of reprisal. This rare testimony from the
biggest surveillance state in the world reveals not only the full,
frightening scope of China's tyrannical ambitions, but also the
resilience and courage of its author.
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