Many ethnic Kazakhs from China who have settled in their ancestral home, Kazakhstan, are reluctant to talk about the plight of their fellow Muslims in China, fearing retaliation against their relatives still in Xinjiang.
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Zhazira Asenqyzy was a popular author and successful entrepreneur until her world came crashing down when she was thrown into one of China's notorious camps in its Xinjiang Province where Muslims are sent without charges or a trial.
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Described by rights activist Michael Caster as “crimes against humanity,” the targeted persecution of Xinjiang’s Muslim Uyghurs is worsening, and journalists, academics, and politicians are calling for awareness and action. Recent statistics show the region constituted 21% of all arrests in China last year, despite comprising just 1.5% of the national population. In addition, Professor Adrian Zenz demonstrated that “at least several hundred thousand, and possibly just over one million” Uyghurs have been detained in extralegal re-education camps which would not register in arrest statistics.
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Qu xuexi,” meaning to go or be sent to study, is one of the most common expressions in Xinjiang these days. It is a euphemism for having been taken away and not having been seen or heard from since. The “schools” are re-education centers in which the detainees are being forced to take courses in Chinese and patriotism, without any indictment