Five Fingers Crush The Land from NPR's Throughline

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🗓️ 19 December 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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As NPR correspondent Emily Feng reported in our three-part series "The Black Gate," hundreds of thousands of Uyghur people have been detained in China. They've been subjected to torture, forced labor, religious restrictions, and even forced sterilization. In this episode from 2021, our colleagues at the history podcast Throughline explore who the Uyghur people are, their land, their customs, their music and how they've become such a target in China today. To listen to this series sponsor-free and support NPR, sign up for Embedded+ in Apple Podcasts or at plus.npr.org.

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0:00.0	This is Eric Glass.
0:01.5	On This American Life, we like stories that surprise you.
0:04.2	For instance, imagine finding a new hobby and realizing...
0:07.2	To do this hobby right, according to the ways of the masters,
0:11.7	there's a pretty good chance that you're going to have to bend the law to get the materials that you need.
0:16.6	If not, break it.
0:17.5	Yeah.
0:18.2	To break international laws.
0:20.8	Your life stories, really good ones.
0:23.0	This American Life.
0:24.6	Hey, I'm Kelly McEvers, and this is embedded from NPR.
0:28.7	You might have just finished listening to our recent series, The Black Gate.
0:32.9	It's about the oppression of the Uyghur people in China.
0:36.8	If you haven't heard this series yet, check it out.
0:39.0	All three episodes are in this feed. In the series, NPR International Correspondent, Emily Fang,
0:44.8	followed the Kuchar family as they spent several years trying to reunite with each other.
0:49.9	But obviously, the history of this issue goes back way farther than that. Our friends over at NPR's History Podcasts ThruLine made an episode that takes listeners back in time to understand the origins of the Uyghur people, their land, their customs, their music, and how they've become such a target in China today.
1:08.7	So we wanted to share that episode with you.
1:11.6	And if you liked the episode, you can find lots more from the ThruLine podcast wherever you listen.
1:17.0	ThruLine co-host Rund Abdel Fattah takes it from here.
1:34.5	This is a song called Forefathers by a musician named Abdur Rahim Hayet.
1:43.3	The song is based on a poem, calling the Uighur youth to respect the sacrifices of their ancestors. In 2017, Abder Rahim was arrested after performing
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