China Undercover

April 07, 2020

PBS

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LI:
You tell me your parents are in a camp?
MALE UYGHUR:
There are many, many people’s parents.
LI:
Why?
MALE UYGHUR:
I don’t know.
LI:
So you mean every family in Xinjiang, they have somebody in a camp?
MALE UYGHUR:
Yes. Yes. Yes.
[Nodding]
MALE UYGHUR:
[Whispers] Just Uyghurs.
LI:
Uyghurs.
MALE UYGHUR:
Maybe I am lucky one. Maybe God protects me.
LI:
You don’t know whether they will take you next month or next year?
MALE UYGHUR:
Yes.
LI:
You don’t know.
MALE UYGHUR:
Everybody doesn’t know.
I miss my parents.
LI:
I can imagine. Where is the camp? You don’t know?
MALE UYGHUR:
No, we don’t.