was it jailed that they told us it was a school. you can't interview people here we've got many negative reports. if the world combined side of the chinese government to reach its goal the weaker than the killer gets people will be wiped out physically local as well as culturally. the. tar here would tell it here is a university lecturer in germany for many years the only remaining link to his family have been a few academic texts books written by his father motel a pacific erie respected weaker linguist and long standing member of the communist party in 2017 years father suddenly disappeared authorities accused him of

spreading ethnic hatred. so the party has the right to decide who is a professor and who is a criminal and my father was a professor and a research and he was hardworking and so the party allowed him to do this work a lot and now the party has made him a criminal also one could never get. there on that time china began the mass construction of prisons and reeducation camps and soon its western most region according to estimates more than 1000000 we sent other minorities have been detained there this was the start of an unprecedented campaign against muslim minorities that would reach far beyond china's border complain that many in the u.s. government for the genocide china claims it is merely combating extremism.

whose ear always han is an ethnic origin. she emigrated to kazakhstan but returned in 2017 to visit relatives at the border she was detained and sent to a camp. the minorities in china's far west seen by beijing as restive were to be reeducated to become more chinese. clay made us repeat chinese words we didn't know if we forgot and they struck us with electric shock devices they same for a had said that the wounds were concealed by a hand and our husbands wouldn't notice later here they would have been visible. we go to get a closer look at one of the camps where was us says she was detained following an international outcry china said the camps were vocational training centers and that most people had already graduated the complex anyone in county was built in 2017 satellite imagery shows that security measures seem to have been subsequently

scaled back walls were replaced with fences the gate is closed but it doesn't look like a high security facility and most of the internees appear to be young they walk in orderly lines and africa before entering the building. told us that some of our fellow inmates have been sent to regular prisons on the outskirts of inning we find a high security complex with watch towers built around the same time. it will. do for never stop if you take pictures here we will have to take measures against you. was here our han is one of the few people who managed to leave china and talk about her ordeal besides psychological and physical torture she caused the detainees were routinely administered injections well local coming in a after the injection some women stopped having their periods those who western

women straighten up even just one pad which they had to use to 2 or 3 days we took quite a family about it we stopped being ashamed. 4th there is asian and birth control measures have led to a drop in birth rates among muslim minorities one of the reasons why observers say the repressive measures add up to genocide people with ties abroad have been targeted in particular in seems young is a mean was a shop owner selling imported foods and products today we meet him in a rented apartment in germany in 2015 he was returning home from a business trip to malaysia when he was stopped at the airport and taken to a detention center. you can they took me into a room there they sat me down at a metal table and they handcuffed my legs and my arms to it then they tightened the cuffs until i could no longer move those books that hurt them and i stayed in this position for 2 days. of earth he says he was never told why he was arrested

a suspect a month in detention his documents show that he was suspected of endangering state security then suddenly he was released under one condition he had to agree to work for state security or i thought i just had to stay in touch with them but i didn't intend to really work for them again. after his father's detention to your criteria was no longer able to get in touch with his family now he has followed in his father's footsteps and teaches we go language and literature this semester he's teaching a class on we've got pop music due to the pandemic is classes i don't like. today's lesson is about europe one of syngenta most successful stars. we have.

2 of his main themes one is love of one's homeland and the other theme you mentioned is the collective memory of the weakest. to sing up out i your past since disappeared as have communities farther and a large part of the weaker culturally. i feel angry might try to control my emotions if you can and stay humane and peaceful. here is hometown cashcard the cultural capital of the many his story. monuments have been restored transformed into a tourist attraction but inside the ancient city traditional life is under attack all the mosques have been closed some minarets removed prayer rooms now hold businesses the rooms dedicated to a blue sion have been turned into public toilets. one mosque was even turned into

a bar which since has been closed. after his detention a same in regularly met with a secret service agent who became his handler was allowed to continue traveling abroad he says nothing specific was asked of him and he maintains that he has never informed against anyone but it's impossible to check these it's. about one year later he was detained again this time he was released with a specific request to spy on a young week in turkey. a cell left for istanbul where he defected and went public with his story then he received a phone call from his hand. the man he said so you've decided to appear on this cost and talk that you know the your family members are here in china on the

stuff. since then many of his relatives have disappeared 5 siblings were arrested he says oldest brother was sentenced to 25 years in jail he cannot reach any of his relatives by phone it was fellow we passed on that have been use. as a law than. now the chinese government separated us forever. when our life wasn't bad and that i was in good health not on doing all right financially but it was a happy life took. an american colleague and i tried to visit the place where you live we have followed closely and constantly harassed. the villages in the area seem eerily empty many houses have been sealed by the earth or eighty's. before reaching ace's village we

are stoppard would be if. you can just walk around here and interview people around the world is watching she and john there have been some negative reports. 18 months after his father's disappearance tell your criteria finally received word from him. looking old and frail he denied on video chat that he had been detained and said he had spent the last month in hospital. my son you must not believe these lies you must keep your mouth shut and publicly renounce the accusations you have made and clean up the dirt that you have left. this will be the best for us. was yours it always makes me sad that he had to spend our entire conversation defending these abuses it. in cash got we try to visit tell you here is father he lives on the university campus as the police appear i say i want to meet but. we

don't have the authority to let you in. i want you consent to the interview personally you have to apply through the foreign office. was the other one i asked my hand on the just so many people have been detained and so many more disappear every day. so little lead. and he owns it all that america did not become adults it was without shedding a lot of blood. much more is going to happen i. think it's also remembers that his handler met with him once in istanbul and seemed to be operating freely into a king a said decided to move to germany where he's waiting for his refugee status to be approved. 0 now lives in istanbul she too is afraid of china's

reach. the month the koto mother and i so wake up and lightness of being back in the chinese internment camp and i see images and memories of altera geisha the beatings and the things they did to women when they still haunts me. yuri's father does seem to be back home again though his condition is not very clear. here he can call us parents every 2 weeks but after 2 minutes to like. the. chinese government has made me a lonely man power san lonely man in exile. it is. work that keeps him going preserving the week a coach. or

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a priest and the huntress changed as we take this listen to our podcast on the green thumbs. it's about billions. it's about power. it's about the foundation of the new world order the new silk road. china wants to expand its influence with this trade network. but in cairo there's a show of the morning the ever accept some money from the new superpower will become dependent on the commitment of the state. the chinese state has a lot of money at its disposal the book and that's how it's expanding and asserting its status and position in the world the focus of. china's gateway to europe. starts feb 19th on d w. this

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