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September 16, 2023

Waiting to Be Arrested at Night A Uyghur Poet’s Memoir of China’s Genocide [Audiobook]

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Free Download Waiting to Be Arrested at Night: A Uyghur Poet’s Memoir of China’s Genocide (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BP57FCLX | 2023 | 7 hours and 40 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 224 MB
Author: Tahir Hamut Izgil
Narrator: Greg Watanabe
A poet’s account of one of the world’s most urgent humanitarian crises, and a harrowing tale of a family’s escape from genocide. One by one, Tahir Hamut Izgil’s friends disappeared. The Chinese government’s brutal persecution of the Uyghur people had continued for years, but in 2017 it assumed a terrifying new scale. The Uyghurs, a predominantly Muslim minority group in western China, were experiencing an echo of the worst horrors of the twentieth century, amplified by China’s establishment of an all-seeing high-tech surveillance state. Over a million people have vanished into China’s internment camps for Muslim minorities. Tahir, a prominent poet and intellectual, had been no stranger to persecution.

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