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Post Reports

They escaped China’s crackdown. Now, they wait.

Post Reports

The Washington Post

Daily News, Politics, News

4.45.1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2019

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Emily Rauhala tracks the plight of a Uighur family that escaped internment in western China. And Michael Ruane describes a newly digitized wealth of recordings and documents from the postwar Nuremberg Trial.

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0:00.0

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0:15.0

From the newsroom of The Washington Post.

0:18.4

It's Robert Samuels from The Washington Post.

0:21.0

Posts, Sarah Kaplan.

0:22.6

Hi, this is Elaheizaddi with The Washington Post.

0:25.4

Hey, how are you?

0:26.3

This is Post Reports.

0:27.7

I'm Martine Powers.

0:30.9

It's Friday, November 22nd.

0:35.7

Today, a Weeger woman's journey from a Chinese inter-rerman camp to the suburbs of Virginia.

0:42.4

And the sound of the Nuremberg Trials.

0:48.5

So, I covered China for many years.

0:51.5

I was based in Beijing for the post and based in Hong Kong before that.

0:55.7

And since 2009, the situation for the Weggers has been getting progressively worse and worse and worse.

1:03.0

And over the last three years, it's gotten really bad.

1:06.9

Emily Rahla covers foreign affairs for the post.

1:10.0

She's talking about the Weggers, a Muslim minority in China.

1:15.2

They have been systematically targeted by the Chinese government

1:18.7

and an effort to make them more like the majority Han population.

1:23.2

Roughly three years ago, China started building this network of, you know,

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