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Waiting to Be Arrested at Night: A Uyghur Poet's Memoir of China's Genocide
Tahir Hamut Izgil
Joshua Freeman
china
migration
race
state
future
2023
OL49765438M
1350876952
Penguin
New York
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With the restoration of my old ID number, the previous six years of my life, including the three years I spent in prison, became a numberless life. In truth, this was a blessing for me. I believe that the record of my punishment and imprisonment had been wiped from the police system. Networked computers had not yet been widely adopted.

The true story of how a Uyghur poet and film director narrowly managed to escape a genocide—and of the friends and family that he left behind.