avg_rating: 4.15
name: Gulbahar Haitiwaji
about: For three years, she endured hundreds of hours of interrogation, torture, hunger, police violence, head-packing, forced sterilization, cold, rats, nights under the blinding neon of a cell, Kafkaesque destruction mechanisms. Her name is Gulbahar Haitiwaji and she is the first Uyghur woman survivor of Chinese re-education camps who dares to speak out. These camps are to China what the Gulag was to the USSR. Since 2017, more than a million Uyghurs have been deported there. The Uyghurs are a Turkish-speaking Muslim ethnic group who inhabit Xinjiang. Gulbahar's testimony is terrifying: she recounts what she experienced in the bowels of the Chinese concentration camp system and how she was saved thanks to the restless negotiations of her daughter For three years, she endured hundreds of hours of interrogation, torture, hunger, police violence, head-packing, forced sterilization, cold, rats, nights under the blinding neon of a cell, Kafkaesque destruction mechanisms. Her name is Gulbahar Haitiwaji and she is the first Uyghur woman survivor of Chinese re-education camps who dares to speak out. These camps are to China what the Gulag was to the USSR. Since 2017, more than a million Uyghurs have been deported there. The Uyghurs are a Turkish-speaking Muslim ethnic group who inhabit Xinjiang. Gulbahar's testimony is terrifying: she recounts what she experienced in the bowels of the Chinese concentration camp system and how she was saved thanks to the restless negotiations of her daughter. ...more