Gulbahar Haitiwaji is the first Uyghur woman survivor China's barbarous re-education camps to give a personal account of life inside their walls.
The camps - redolent of Stalin's gulag - are 'home' to one million Uyghurs, a Turkish-speaking Muslim ethnic group in the western region of Xinjiang. The Chinese Communist Party covets Xinjiang because it is on the 'new silk roads,' the flagship project of President Xi Jinping.
The Chinese Communist Party says the camps are part of 'the total fight against Islamic terrorism, infiltration and separatism.' The US Government says that China's treatment of the Uyghurs amounts to 'genocide.'
Gulbahar recounts how she was tricked into returning to China and thrown into a nightmare of brainwashing and forced sterialisation, that is wiping a culture off the face of the Earth. Very unusually, she made it out to the West, and has decided to tell her story. This rare account of life in China's gulag is visceral and internationally important.
Autorentext
Gulbahar Haitiwaji worked as a petroleum engineer in Xinjiang, China, before she left with her two daughters, to join her husband Kerim, who had sought asylum in France. She was tricked into returning to China, and vanished into its camps.
Rozenn Morgat is a journalist with Le Figaro. She helped Gulbahar to tell her story, in the hope of alerting the world to what is happening to the Uyghurs.
Inhalt
Map of Xianjiang
Preface
Family tree
Chapter 1. A Family Wedding
Chapter 2. China Calling
Chapter 3. A Police Interview
Chapter 4. Communist Party Glories
Chapter 5. Shackled to a Bed
Chapter 6. Inside Cell 202
Chapter 7. 'School' with Xi Jinping
Chapter 8. Nadira Vanishes
Chapter 9. A Reunion with Hope
Chapter 10. 'Re-education' is Working
Chapter 11. Losing Body and Mind
Chapter 12. World Discovers the Camps
Chapter 13. France Discovers Gulbahar
Chapter 14. Moved to a Bigger Camp
Chapter 15. 'No 9. Your Turn!'
Chapter 16. Where is Gulbahar?
Chapter 17. Letting Myself Die
Chapter 18. Battles With Tasqin
Chapter 19. Freedom?
Chapter 20. Fruit and Mint Tea
Chapter 21. Phoning Home
Chapter 22. Monitored All Day
Chapter 23. Back in Karamay
Chapter 24. Cooking for Secret Police
Chapter 25. The Truth is Voiceless
Chapter 26. Closing My File
Chapter 27. Landing
Afterword
Acknowledgements