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By Victor Ordonez and Jason Kuang, ABC News
May 20, 2021 | 11:30 AM
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(NEW YORK) In January, 7-year-old Bayan Auelkhan landed at Dallas Fort Worth International Airport with her parents. She found herself over 7,000 miles away from her home in Kazakhstan, and her family does not know if or when they’ll return.
But she doesn’t mind the travel or even living in a strange, new place, now that Bayan is back with her mother after being separated for much of her life.
Bayan called attention to her plight in a YouTube video posted in 2019 by a Kazkh activist, Serikzhan Bilash. Bayan is seen in the video, alongside her father, pleading to be reunited with her mother.
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In China, 85% of cotton comes from the Xinjiang region, CBP says.
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China s message to the international community is that its Xinjiang province is a wonderful land. But for many who are part of its Turkic Muslim population, the majority of those who live there, it s a nightmare.
Up to 3 million Turkic Muslims both Uighur and Kazakh are, or have been, detained in facilities the Chinese government calls vocational centers, according to the U.S. State Department. Human rights activists allege that the Chinese government forces the ethnic minorities to work on farms and in textile factories nearby. The country has denied allegations of slave labor or that these are forced internment camps.