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Sauytbay, Sayragul,

The chief witness : escape from China's modern-day concentration camps / Sayragul Sauytbay, Alexandra Cavelius ; translated by Caroline Waight. - London : Scribe Publications, 2021. - 308 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Translation from the German of: Die Kronzeugin. Europa Verlag, 2020

Ghosts of the past -- Despite Chinese invasion and destruction : dreaming of a golden future and financial security -- Mouths taped shut -- Worse than a mental hospital : the world's biggest surveillance state -- Total control : interrogations and rape -- The camp : surviving in hell -- Better to dies escaping than die in the camp -- Kazakhstan : Beijing's interference in neighbouring countries -- Viral : warning the world -- Afterword / by Alexandra Cavelius.

In recent years, China's north-western province has become home to over 1,200 penal camps - modern-day gulags that are estimated to house three million members of the Kazakh and Uyghur minorities. Imprisoned solely due to their ethnicity. While incarcerated, Sayragul Sauytbay gained access to secret information that revealed Beijing's long-term plans to undermine not only its minorities, but democracies around the world. This rare testimony from the biggest surveillance state in the world reveals the full, frightening scope of China's tyrannical ambitions.


In English ; translated from German.

ISBN: 1913348601 9781913348601 9781950354528 1950354520 9781922310538 1922310530

Nat. Bib. No.: GBC143227 bnb

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 020135089 Uk edition

Subjects--Personal Names:
Sauytbay, Sayragul.

Subjects--Chronological Terms:
1900-2099

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Kazakhs--Social conditions --China --20th century.
Ethnic conflict--China Xinjiang--Uygur Zizhiqu.
Politics and government.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
China--Politics and government --21st century.
China--Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu.

LC Class. No.: DS731.K38 / S3813 2021

Dewey Class. No.: 305.894345051