Within the Xinjiang area of western China, the federal government has rounded up and detained lots of of 1000’s of Uyghurs and different Muslim ethnic teams. Many have not been heard from in years, and extra nonetheless are desperately looking for their households. Western governments have referred to as this crackdown a cultural genocide and a potential crime in opposition to humanity.
On this episode, the primary of a three-part sequence from Embedded, NPR correspondent Emily Feng tells the story of a kind of individuals. For years, a Uyghur man named Abdullatif Kucar had no thought what has occurred to his spouse and younger kids after they have been detained by Chinese language authorities. Emilly follows Kucar as he desperately searches for his household.
However this story is greater than one household. On this sequence, Emily additionally travels throughout Asia and dives into a long time of historical past to uncover the huge Chinese language surveillance of Uyghurs, getting unique interviews with the individuals affected by that surveillance and the individuals upholding it – who generally are one and the identical.
This episode was initially printed in 2022. To listen to the entire sequence, head to https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510311/embedded.
