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UNACCEPTABLE CCP: 2/4: No Escape: The True Story of China's Genocide of the Uyghurs Kindle Edition by Nury Turkel

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🗓️ 20 April 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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UNACCEPTABLE CCP: 2/4: No Escape: The True Story of China's Genocide of the Uyghurs Kindle Edition by  Nury Turkel

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In recent years, the People’s Republic of China has rounded up as many as three million Uyghurs, placing them in what it calls “reeducation camps,” facilities most of the world identifies as concentration camps. There, the genocide and enslavement of the Uyghur people are ongoing. The tactics employed are reminiscent of the Cultural Revolution, but the results are far more insidious because of the technology used, most of it stolen from Silicon Valley. In the words of Turkel, “Communist China has created an open prison-like environment through the most intrusive surveillance state that the world has ever known while committing genocide and enslaving the Uyghurs on the world’s watch.”

As a human rights attorney and Uyghur activist who now serves on the US Commission on International Religious Freedom, Turkel tells his personal story to help explain the urgency and scope of the Uyghur crisis. Born in 1970 in a reeducation camp, he was lucky enough to survive and eventually make his way to the US, where he became the first Uyghur to receive an American law degree. Since then, he has worked as a prominent lawyer, activist, and spokesperson for his people and advocated strong policy responses from the liberal democracies to address atrocity crimes against his people.

The Uyghur crisis is turning into the greatest human rights crisis of the twenty-first century, a systematic cleansing of an entire race of people in the millions. Part Anne Frank and Hannah Arendt, No Escape shares Turkel’s personal story while drawing back the curtain on the historically unprecedented and increasing threat from China.

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0:00.0

This is CBSI in the world.

0:07.0

I'm John Batchel with Nuri Turkle, the author of No Escape,

0:10.0

the new book is The True Story of China's Genocide of the Uyghurs.

0:13.9

Nouri was born in a prison camp, his mother, Aisha.

0:18.5

Why was she in prison?

0:20.0

Why was she being abused by the guards, Nore?

0:22.7

Simply put, guilt by association. My mother is a remarkable woman. And anyone can say things

0:34.5

like that about their mother, and they should. But my mother was remarkable in many aspects.

0:40.1

One, she was very aware of the political environment early on,

0:45.7

supporting my maternal grandfather, who was politically very active and involved in

0:51.5

the second East Turkestan Republic.

0:54.2

That's what that was established in 1944 and dismantled by Mao's China with the help of

1:00.6

Stalin's Soviet Union.

1:02.6

That national sentiment longing for independent state was part of the Uyghur people and the

1:09.1

society.

1:09.7

My grandfather was very influential a businessman.

1:12.8

He had a jewelry store, and he was a musician,

1:18.3

and he had family and friends.

1:20.3

I gathered at my maternal grandparents' house,

1:23.5

and my mom was a cheap host, opening the door, greeting and sending them out. So the Chinese

1:29.2

noted that my mom had a very special connection to this nationalist individual who was my

1:35.6

grandfather. And the start of the cultural revolution, the Red Guards rounded up, Uyghurs

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