The Telegraph published this video item, entitled “How China press-ganged Kazakhs into rounding up Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang” – below is their description.
One evening, Gulpiya Qazybek was on her way home after work when suddenly she was summoned back.
Gulpiya, 46, an ethnic Kazakh from China’s Xinjiang region, was placed into a government job after university, tasked with ensuring families stayed within the country’s legal birth limits.
But lately, her responsibilities were changing. That night, she and her colleagues were instructed to round up ten families in the neighbourhood.
“We were told to remove their shoelaces, belts, buttons,” Gulpiya told the Telegraph in an exclusive interview.
“Then, we had to escort them to the police, who bound their hands behind their backs, pulled a black hood over their heads, and loaded them onto buses.”
“No one knew where they were going,” she said. “Were they going to their deaths, or to ‘study’ in a ‘re-education’ camp? Would they return or would they disappear?”
It was March 2019, and China’s sweeping crackdown against Uyghurs, Kazakhs, and other primarily Muslim ethnic groups meant people were disappearing every day.
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