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The Chief Witness

Escape from China's Modern-Day Concentration Camps

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The Chief Witness

Written by: Sayragul Sauytbay, Alexandra Cavelius
Narrated by: Xifeng Brooks
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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.

©2021 Sayragul Sauytbay, Alexandra Cavelius (P)2021 Dreamscape Media, LLC
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Everyone needs to read this!

The CCP is an evil fascist monstrosity. Like it’s earlier fascist brothers the NAZI’s, the CCP demonstrates its lack of morality and humanity. What happened to the rest of the world and to never again? Shame on all of us!

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