China: The Uighur Tragedy

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.

2022

1h 45min

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Top Billed Cast

Alexis Victor
Self - Narrator (voice)
Sean Roberts
Self - Anthropologist
Xia Ming
Self - Political Scientist
Shen Dingli
Self - Political Scientist
Christopher Buckley
Self - Journalist
Shohret Hoshur
Self - Uighur Journalist
Adrian Zenz
Self - Anthropologist
Olsi Jazexhi
Self - Journalist
Kelbinur Sidiq
Self - Uzbek Refugee
Omir Bekali
Self - Kazakh Refugee
Tursunay Ziyawudun
Self - Uighur Refugee
Sophie Richardson
Self - Human Rights Activist
James Leibold
Self - Researcher
Tumaris Yalkun
Self - Uighur Student
Wu Qiang
Self - Analyst
Hu Angang
Self - Economist
Abdurehim Gheni
Self - Uighur Activist
Jean-Maurice Ripert
Self - Diplomat
Joe Biden
Self - Politician (archive footage)
习近平
Self - Politician (archive footage)

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