Adrian Zenz- Director and Senior Fellow in China Studies at the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, Washington, D.C.; author of ‘Tibetanness’ Under Threat?
In this important new contribution, researchers at the Uyghur Transitional Justice Database have compiled a representative set of 100 pertinent testimonies. These cover the wide range of abuses that Uyghurs in Xinjiang are subjected to, including internment, forced abortions and sterilizations, parents being separated from children, and forced labor. Vivid witness accounts of early camp-based reeducation efforts in 2014 and 2015 are set to be of great interest to scholars of mass internment in the region. The author contextualizes his work by discussing key witness accounts in the context of the breadth of scholarly research on various aspects of the atrocity. Readers of this important work will come away with a significantly deepened understanding of how Beijing’s brutal crackdown has touched the lives of individuals and families.
