“I last heard from my parents in 2017. I don’t know if they’re dead or alive.” This is what one Uyghur living in the UK, a mum-of-three who can’t be named for her own safety, told the Mirror.
This is a common story amongst Uyghur Muslims living in the UK, whose relatives back in China are victim to what many have called a genocide.
Imprisoned in camps, they are made to learn Chinese history, the language and watch state-produced broadcasts, documentaries and speeches by leading politicians as a part of their ‘re-education’.
Women are subject to forcible sterilisation and endemic rape and many Uyghur Muslims are sent off for forced labour. Current estimates are that there are more than one million people in these camps, and analysis of
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