EYES OF THE MACHINE

Chinese Re-education Camps Never Seen: Uyghur activist and survivor Kalbinur Sidik recounts the persecution of her people in Xinjiang and the People’s Republic’s incredible propaganda machine.

East Turkestan has been part of China since 1949, but Uighur Muslims in the region continue to fight for their autonomy. Chinese authorities fear separatist movements and persecute them. Kalbinur Sidik, a refugee forced to work in internment camps and now exiled in the Netherlands, pits herself against Chinese state propaganda, using personal photos, intercepted messages, open source data, state media and diaspora voices, hoping one day to find her family.

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