belt and road, chinese communist party, concentration camps, kaisha akan, kazakh, kazakh minority, kazakhstan, uyghur

Kazakhstan Grants 2 Chinese Muslims Refugee Status

Two ethnically Kazakh Chinese, fearing persecution for their Muslim faith in their home province of Xinjiang, have been accepted as refugees in neighboring Kazakhstan, as reported by Bitter Winter.   Kaisha Akan, an ethnic Kazakh who fled China after she received information that she would soon be detained and possibly sent to a concentration camp, was ...

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Kaster Musakhan.

The Story of How a Kazakh Woman Survived China’s Re-education Camps

When talking about the persecution of Muslim minorities in China, the Uyghur community largely takes the spotlight in the international media. But there are others who are targeted for cultural genocide, with the minority Kazakh community being one of them. In an interview with the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, a 43-year-old Kazakh woman named Sayragul Sauytbay ...

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Sayragul Sauytbay.