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050  4 DS731.K38|bS38 2021 
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100 1  Sauytbay, Sayragul,|eauthor. 
240 10 Kronzeugin.|lEnglish 
245 10 Chief witness : escape from China's modern-day 
       concentration camps /|cSayragul Sauytbay, Alexandra 
       Cavelius ; translated by Caroline Waight. 
264  1 London :|bScribe Publications,|c2021. 
264  4 |c©2021 
300    308 pages, 8 unnumbered plates :|billustrations ;|c24 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
500    "First published in German in 2020 by Europa Verlag as Die
       Kronzeugin"--Title page verso. 
520    "Born in China's north-western 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 north-western province 
       borders the largest number of foreign nations and is the 
       point in China that is closest to Europe. In recent years 
       it 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, 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 democracies 
       around the world. Upon her escape to Europe she was 
       reunited with her family, but 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"--Back 
       cover. 
600 10 Sauytbay, Sayragul. 
650  0 Kazakhs|zChina|zXinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu|xSocial conditions.
650  0 Ethnic conflict|zChina|zXinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu. 
650  0 Uighur (Turkic people)|zChina|zXinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu. 
651  0 Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu (China) 
700 1  Cavelius, Alexandra,|eauthor. 
700 1  Waight, Caroline,|etranslator. 
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