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The Chief Witness
- Escape from China's Modern-Day Concentration Camps
- Narrated by: Xifeng Brooks
- Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
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Publisher's Summary
Born in China’s northwestern province, Sayragul Sauytbay trained as a doctor before being appointed a senior civil servant. But her life was upended when the Chinese authorities incarcerated her. Her crime? Being Kazakh, one of China’s ethnic minorities.
The northwestern province borders the largest number of foreign nations and is the point in China that is the closest to Europe. In recent years, it has become home to more than 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, inmates are subjected to relentless punishment and torture, including being beaten, raped, and used as subjects for medical experiments. The camps represent the greatest systematic incarceration of an entire people since the Third Reich.
In prison, Sauytbay was put to work teaching Chinese language, culture, and politics, in the course of which she gained access to secret information that revealed Beijing’s long-term plans to undermine not only its minorities but also democracies around the world. Upon her escape to Europe, she was reunited with her family, but she still lives under constant threat of reprisal. This rare testimony from the biggest surveillance state in the world reveals not only the full, frightening scope of China’s tyrannical ambitions, but also the resilience and courage of its author.
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- Kindle Customer
- 06-10-2022
everyone should read this
A deeply moving and disturbing story that we all need to read. I commend the authors and the narrator for bringing this book to the world. Looks like I won't be buying anything from China from now on.
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- Anonymous User
- 03-08-2021
VERY VERY IMPORTANT BOOK!!!
This is a very important book to be red all around the world. Comparable to the Gulag Archipeligo it opens your eyes to the true horrors of comunism and the CCP. The storys told are not pretty and can be mind blowing at times.
It really makes you think.
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