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Izgil, Tahir Hamut, 1969-
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Izgil, Tahir Hamut, 1969-
Genocide -- China -- Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu.
Uighur (Turkic people) -- China -- Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu -- Biography.
Political activists -- China -- Biography.
Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu (China) -- Ethnic relations.
Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu (China) -- Social conditions.
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Izgil, Tahir Hamut, 1969-
Izgil, Tahir Hamut, 1969-
Genocide -- China -- Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu.
Uighur (Turkic people) -- China -- Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu -- Biography.
Political activists -- China -- Biography.
Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu (China) -- Ethnic relations.
Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu (China) -- Social conditions.
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Waiting
to be
arrested
at
night
: a
Uyghur
poet
's
memoir
of China'
s
genocide
/ Tahir Hamut Izgil ; translation and introduction by Joshua L. Freeman.
by
Izgil, Tahir Hamut, 1969-
Penguin Press, 2023.
Call #:
323.151092 I98w
Subjects
Izgil, Tahir Hamut, 1969-
Genocide
--
China
-- Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu.
Uighur (Turkic people) --
China
-- Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu -- Biography.
Political activists --
China
-- Biography.
Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu (
China
) -- Ethnic relations.
Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu (
China
) -- Social conditions.
ISBN:
9780593491799 (hc)
Description:
xvii, 251 p. ; 22 cm.
Notes:
Translated from the
Uyghur
.
Summary:
"A
poet
's account of one of the world'
s
most urgent humanitarian crises, and a harrowing tale of a family'
s
escape from
genocide
One by one, Tahir Hamut Izgil'
s
friends disappeared. The Chinese government'
s
brutal persecution of the
Uyghur
people had continued for years, but in 2017 it assumed a terrifying new scale. The Uyghurs, a predominantly Muslim minority group in western
China
, were experiencing an echo of the worst horrors of the twentieth century, amplified by China'
s
establishment of an all-seeing high-tech surveillance state. Over a million people have vanished into China'
s
internment camps for Muslim minorities. Tahir, a prominent
poet
and intellectual, had been no stranger to persecution. After he attempted to travel abroad in 1996, police tortured him until he confessed to fabricated charges and sent him to a re-education through labor camp. But even having endured three years in the camp, he could never have predicted the Chinese government'
s
radical solution to the
Uyghur
question two decades later. Was the first sign when Tahir was interrogated for hours after a phone call with a fellow
poet
in the Netherlands? Or when his old friend was sentenced to life in prison simply for calling for Uyghurs' legal rights to be enforced? Perhaps it was when the police seized Uyghurs' radios and installed jamming equipment to cut them off from the outside world. Once Tahir noticed that the park near his home was nearly empty because so many neighbors had been
arrested
, he knew the police would be coming for him any day. One
night
, after Tahir'
s
daughters were asleep, he placed by his door a sturdy pair of shoes, a sweater, and a coat so that he could stay warm if the police came for him in the middle of the
night
. It was clear to Tahir and his wife that fleeing the country was the family'
s
only hope.
Waiting
to Be
Arrested
at
Night
is the story of the political, social, and cultural destruction of Tahir Hamut Izgil'
s
homeland. Among leading
Uyghur
intellectuals and writers, he is the only one known to have escaped
China
since the mass internments began. His book is a call for the world to awaken to the unfolding catastrophe, and a tribute to his friends and fellow Uyghurs whose voices have been silenced."--Publisher.
Genre:
Autobiographies.
Memoirs.
Other authors:
Freeman, Joshua L.
Holds:
5
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