Uyghur Xinjiang Experience USAGM
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- Uyghur Xinjiang Experience USAGM
- September 7, 2022
- Content Type Package
- Language English
- Transcript/Script English USAGM SHARE ((PLAYBOOK SLUG: Uyghur Xinjiang Experience HEADLINE: A Uyghur’s Story: What It’s Like Inside a Xinjiang 'Reeducation' Facility TEASER: Woman recounts interrogation and torture while in a Xinjiang detention camp PUBLISHED AT: 9/7/2022 at 11am BYLINE: Xiao Yu CONTRIBUTOR: DATELINE: Washington VIDEOGRAPHER: Shih-Wei Chou PRODUCER: Shih-Wei Chou SCRIPT EDITORS: ELee, AR VIDEO SOURCE (S): VOA, Reuters, AFP, Video blocks, see courtesies PLATFORMS (mark with X): WEB _X_ TV _X_ RADIO __ TRT: 3:02 VID APPROVED BY: MAS TYPE: TVPKG EDITOR NOTES: There is a companion web article with this TV script)) ((INTRO)) [[Human rights groups have accused China of arbitrarily detaining one to two million Muslim minorities in the Xinjiang region of the country, actions these organizations have described as crimes against humanity. One Uyghur woman who experienced what life was like in detention shared her story with VOA. Elizabeth Lee narrates the story for reporter Xiao Yu in Paris.]] ((NARRATOR)) Gulbahar Haitiwaji spent nearly three years inside what she calls a Chinese “reeducation” camp. ((Gulbahar Haitiwaji, Chinese Detention Camp Survivor)) “I was chained to the bed. I couldn’t defecate during (the) 10 days, and when I did it for the first time, I was attached like a dog, and I had to do it for the first time in front of everybody, I cried at that time.” ((NARRATOR)) Haitiwaji wrote a memoir about her experience that's been translated into several languages. She is speaking in her native tongue. The voice in English is that of her... ((Mandatory courtesy: Gulbahar Haitiwaji)) ...daughter, Gulihumar Haitiwaji, who is translating for her. Originally from Xinjiang, Haitiwaji was an engineer in China before moving to France with her daughters in 2006. ((End Courtesy)) ((Gulbahar Haitiwaji, Chinese Detention Camp Survivor)) “At the end of November 2016, I received a call from my company in Karamay [Xinjiang]. They asked me to go back to make the anticipated retirement process. I never suspected anything, because I never did anything wrong against China in France.” ((NARRATOR)) ((AFP, Reuters)) She says the call was a trap, and that Chinese police accused her family of being terrorists. ((Gulbahar Haitiwaji, Chinese Detention Camp Survivor)) “Every time we go to the interrogation session, they put [a] black bag on our heads. Our ankles are constantly chained. I’ve been attached for 20 days.” ((NARRATOR)) ((VOA)) After being detained for four months, Haitiwaji received notice that she would be transferred to a school. ((Gulbahar Haitiwaji, Chinese Detention Camp Survivor)) ((Reuters, VOA)) “Every Friday was test day. They told us we had to succeed [in] everything, because otherwise we would stay there forever.” ((NARRATOR)) ((Reuters)) Through its state news agency Xinhua, China described the schools as vocational education and training centers. Xinhua said that the centers aimed to deradicalize the trainees and that all had graduated by October 2019. ((Gulbahar Haitiwaji, Chinese “Reeducation” Camp Survivor)) “China is lying, definitely, because they are still opening new camps.” ((NARRATOR)) ((AFP)) Scholars and human rights groups have accused Beijing of detaining one million to two million Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities in Xinjiang. In 2020... ((Mandatory courtesy: Australian Strategic Policy Institute)) the Australian Strategic Policy Institute identified more than 380 suspected detention facilities in Xinjiang. ((End Courtesy)) ((AFP)) ((CHYRON: 8/17/2022)) In August, China said these were lies. ((Wang Wenbin, China’s Foreign Ministry Spokesperson)) ((Mandarin)) “They are using human rights as a pretext to undermine Xinjiang’s prosperity and stability and contain China’s development and revitalization.” ((NARRATOR)) ((VOA)) Haitiwaji says with the help of family and the French government, she was released and returned to Paris in August 2019. ((Gulbahar Haitiwaji, Chinese Detention Camp Survivor)) "People in China can’t speak out about the camps, because if they do, they will get back inside the camp.” ((NARRATOR)) The press office in Xinjiang denied that Haitiwaji was tortured. Haitiwaji has had no contact with her family in Xinjiang since the publication of her memoir. For Xiao Yu in Paris, Elizabeth Lee, VOA News
- Transcript/Script USAGM SHARE ((PLAYBOOK SLUG: Uyghur Xinjiang Experience HEADLINE: A Uyghur’s Story: What It’s Like Inside a Xinjiang 'Reeducation' Facility TEASER: Woman recounts interrogation and torture while in a Xinjiang detention camp PUBLISHED AT: 9/7/2022 at 11am BYLINE: Xiao Yu CONTRIBUTOR: DATELINE: Washington VIDEOGRAPHER: Shih-Wei Chou PRODUCER: Shih-Wei Chou SCRIPT EDITORS: ELee, AR VIDEO SOURCE (S): VOA, Reuters, AFP, Video blocks, see courtesies PLATFORMS (mark with X): WEB _X_ TV _X_ RADIO __ TRT: 3:02 VID APPROVED BY: MAS TYPE: TVPKG EDITOR NOTES: There is a companion web article with this TV script)) ((INTRO)) [[Human rights groups have accused China of arbitrarily detaining one to two million Muslim minorities in the Xinjiang region of the country, actions these organizations have described as crimes against humanity. One Uyghur woman who experienced what life was like in detention shared her story with VOA. Elizabeth Lee narrates the story for reporter Xiao Yu in Paris.]] ((NARRATOR)) Gulbahar Haitiwaji spent nearly three years inside what she calls a Chinese “reeducation” camp. ((Gulbahar Haitiwaji, Chinese Detention Camp Survivor)) “I was chained to the bed. I couldn’t defecate during (the) 10 days, and when I did it for the first time, I was attached like a dog, and I had to do it for the first time in front of everybody, I cried at that time.” ((NARRATOR)) Haitiwaji wrote a memoir about her experience that's been translated into several languages. She is speaking in her native tongue. The voice in English is that of her... ((Mandatory courtesy: Gulbahar Haitiwaji)) ...daughter, Gulihumar Haitiwaji, who is translating for her. Originally from Xinjiang, Haitiwaji was an engineer in China before moving to France with her daughters in 2006. ((End Courtesy)) ((Gulbahar Haitiwaji, Chinese Detention Camp Survivor)) “At the end of November 2016, I received a call from my company in Karamay [Xinjiang]. They asked me to go back to make the anticipated retirement process. I never suspected anything, because I never did anything wrong against China in France.” ((NARRATOR)) ((AFP, Reuters)) She says the call was a trap, and that Chinese police accused her family of being terrorists. ((Gulbahar Haitiwaji, Chinese Detention Camp Survivor)) “Every time we go to the interrogation session, they put [a] black bag on our heads. Our ankles are constantly chained. I’ve been attached for 20 days.” ((NARRATOR)) ((VOA)) After being detained for four months, Haitiwaji received notice that she would be transferred to a school. ((Gulbahar Haitiwaji, Chinese Detention Camp Survivor)) ((Reuters, VOA)) “Every Friday was test day. They told us we had to succeed [in] everything, because otherwise we would stay there forever.” ((NARRATOR)) ((Reuters)) Through its state news agency Xinhua, China described the schools as vocational education and training centers. Xinhua said that the centers aimed to deradicalize the trainees and that all had graduated by October 2019. ((Gulbahar Haitiwaji, Chinese “Reeducation” Camp Survivor)) “China is lying, definitely, because they are still opening new camps.” ((NARRATOR)) ((AFP)) Scholars and human rights groups have accused Beijing of detaining one million to two million Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities in Xinjiang. In 2020... ((Mandatory courtesy: Australian Strategic Policy Institute)) the Australian Strategic Policy Institute identified more than 380 suspected detention facilities in Xinjiang. ((End Courtesy)) ((AFP)) ((CHYRON: 8/17/2022)) In August, China said these were lies. ((Wang Wenbin, China’s Foreign Ministry Spokesperson)) ((Mandarin)) “They are using human rights as a pretext to undermine Xinjiang’s prosperity and stability and contain China’s development and revitalization.” ((NARRATOR)) ((VOA)) Haitiwaji says with the help of family and the French government, she was released and returned to Paris in August 2019. ((Gulbahar Haitiwaji, Chinese Detention Camp Survivor)) "People in China can’t speak out about the camps, because if they do, they will get back inside the camp.” ((NARRATOR)) The press office in Xinjiang denied that Haitiwaji was tortured. Haitiwaji has had no contact with her family in Xinjiang since the publication of her memoir. For Xiao Yu in Paris, Elizabeth Lee, VOA News
- NewsML Media Topics Arts, Culture, Entertainment and Media
- Network VOA
- Embargo Date September 7, 2022 10:57 EDT
- Byline Xiao Yu
- Brand / Language Service Voice of America