“We’ll bring all of you back to China. Wait and see what we do to you then.” aliceysu meets the Uyghurs in the grasp of Chinese security services despite living abroad
gathered heaps of data on people’s activities, then classified them as potential terrorists if they fitted into arbitrary categories such as having grown a beard, used WhatsApp or travelled abroad.
None of this mattered once the mass incarceration of ethnic minorities began in 2017. Nigara initially imagined that she’d hear back from her mother in a week or two. But soon she started to see other Uyghurs living outside China post rumours on Facebook about mass arrests at home; many also lost touch with their families. She tried to find Uyghurs who might have information about her family, but no one seemed to have news from Korla.
In 2021, as some Uyghurs were starting to contact their families, a friend advised Nigara to check her WeChat. Perhaps someone back home had got in touch. To Nigara’s surprise, she had a friend request from a stranger. Their picture showed a person’s silhouette but no face. It had been so long since Nigara had spoken with anyone at home. She decided to ask whoever this was for help.
That same day, the policeman told Nigara that he had been to her home and seen her mother – but that her mother had denied that she had a daughter named Nigara. “That can’t be. Maybe she doesn’t trust you,” Nigara said. He then sent Nigara several voice notes: ten-second snatches of himself speaking with her mother, without any video. “Treat me as your son,” he said to the elderly woman. Nigara heard her mother crying as she said, “OK, OK,” to the man.
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