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China: The Uighur Tragedy
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Title: China: The Uighur Tragedy

Release Date: 1 Feb 2022

Runtime: 1h 45m

Genre: Documentary

Director: Découpages, YUZU Productions, ARTE GEIE, RTBF, RTS

Production Companies: Découpages, YUZU Productions, ARTE GEIE, RTBF, RTS

Overview: A relentless chronicle of the tragedy of the Uighurs, an ethnic minority of some eleven million people who live in the Xinjiang region of northwest China, speak a Turkic language and practice the Muslim religion. The Uighurs suffer brutal cultural and political oppression by Xin Jinping's tyrannical government: torture, disappearances, forced labor, re-education of children and adults, mass sterilizations, extensive surveillance and destruction of historical heritage.

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Average Vote: 6.227 (11 votes)

Cast

  • Self - Narrator (voice): Alexis Victor
  • Self - Anthropologist: Sean Roberts
  • Self - Political Scientist: Xia Ming
  • Self - Political Scientist: Shen Dingli
  • Self - Journalist: Christopher Buckley
  • Self - Uighur Journalist: Shohret Hoshur
  • Self - Anthropologist: Adrian Zenz
  • Self - Journalist: Olsi Jazexhi
  • Self - Uzbek Refugee: Kelbinur Sidiq
  • Self - Kazakh Refugee: Omir Bekali
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