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#1 I have lived in Washington, DC, as a free Uyghur for more than twenty years. I have not seen my mother since 2004. I have been able to spend only eleven months with my parents since I left China twenty-seven years ago.
#2 I was born in 1970 in a Communist labor camp in Kashgar, China. My mother was imprisoned for having relatives in a hostile country, and I was malnourished because my mother was malnourished. Between the tiny cracks in the boarded-up window, my mother could just steal glimpses of Kashgar, a city that was already a trading post on the Silk Road two thousand years ago.
#3 My father came from the town of Ghulja in the north, near the border with Kazakhstan, a more European part of the country. He was the son of a famous Uyghur dancer, and he had been brought by authorities to Kashgar as part of a move to integrate Uyghur intellectuals from the north into the ancient city of Kashgar.
#4 I was a studious kid. I read a lot, and I played soccer and ran in my spare time. I didn’t want to join the Chinese elite, and I wanted to be free and live with respect and dignity.

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Publié par	Everest Media LLC
Date de parution	18 juillet 2022
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9798822544352
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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#1

I have lived in Washington, DC, as a free Uyghur for more than twenty years. I have not seen my mother since 2004. I have been able to spend only eleven months with my parents since I left China twenty-seven years ago.

#2

I was born in 1970 in a Communist labor camp in Kashgar, China. My mother was imprisoned for having relatives in a hostile country, and I was malnourished because my mother was malnourished. Between the tiny cracks in the boarded-up window, my mother could just steal glimpses of Kashgar, a city that was already a trading post on the Silk Road two thousand years ago.

#3

My father came from the town of Ghulja in the north, near the border with Kazakhstan, a more European part of the country. He was the son of a famous Uyghur dancer, and he had been brought by authorities to Kashgar as part of a move to integrate Uyghur intellectuals from the north into the ancient city of Kashgar.

#4

I was a studious kid. I read a lot, and I played soccer and ran in my spare time. I didn’t want to join the Chinese elite, and I wanted to be free and live with respect and dignity.

#5

The 1980s saw a cultural renaissance for the Uyghurs. They were allowed to develop their region, and tourists began visiting the area. They even restored the crumbling mausoleums of medieval Uyghur leaders and scholars.

#6

I had a dream of America, and in 1989, the Berlin Wall came down. I began to lose interest in staying in China, and I was envious of the Turkic republics that had gained their freedom. I thought that the end of the Soviet Union might presage the end of China’s Communist Party.

#7

I was trying to get to the US, and I had applied to the University of Idaho. I was rejected because I displayed immigration tendencies, a euphemism in the State Department for a person who might come into the country and never leave.

#8

I was finally able to secure a US visa, and I left my mother in a hospital bed in the care of my father and a dental student friend. I was shocked by the open and free discussion at the dinner table, something I had not experienced in China.

#9

I was shocked by the openness of people’s sexuality and affection in America. In China, it was unheard of for boys and girls to kiss in public, and it was common for people to hold hands or kiss each other on the cheek.

#10

I had initially planned to finish my studies in the United States and return home to find a job that might be useful to my people and my homeland. But in February 1997, trouble broke out in my father’s hometown of Ghulja, in the north of Xinjiang.

#11

I was finally granted asylum in San Francisco. I was so happy that I decided to change my birthday to that day, since it didn’t work like that. I decided I wanted to become a lawyer to help my people.

#12

I worked hard to save up money to go to law school, and in 1996, I moved to San Francisco. I was able to express myself politically and publicly without fear of arrest back home, but I still had family back in China who could be vulnerable to the Communist Party’s retribution.

#13

The Uyghurs have been overlooked or forgotten by many of the other Turkic peoples. They have been scattered all over the world, from Kazakhstan to Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Turkmenistan.

#14

The US launched Operation Enduring Freedom, the invasion of Afghanistan, to overthrow the Taliban who had been sheltering Osama bin Laden and his Al Qaeda group. The US military captured 22 Uyghurs in Pakistan, and claimed they were connected to Al Qaeda.

#15

The Bush administration forged closer ties to China, as Washington was beginning to feel the strain of the war on terror. In 2004, Colin Powell said that the Uyghurs were not going back to China, but they were still repatriating them to China.

#16

I co-founded the Uyghur Human Rights Project in 2003, which was funded by the National Endowment for Democracy. I testified in front of Congress about the Chinese government’s oppression of the Uyghurs.

#17

I had built up a network of contacts in Washington, DC, while I was a student at American University. One day, my professor John Corr took me to the cafeteria and told me that I needed to focus on my legal scholarship rather than my activism. I was at risk of flunking out. But I couldn’t give my activism up.

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