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NEW: This Canadian couple lived in Xinjiang for 10 years. They can no longer stay silent about what they saw https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2021/04/21/this-manitoba-couple-lived-in-xinjiang-for-10-years-they-can-no-longer-stay-silent-about-what-they-saw.html
A Uyghur man tripped over a police officer’s foot.
The man grimaced and looked terrified. The officer flew into a rage and grabbed the man around his neck, dragging him away.
This is just one of the stories that Andrea and Gary shared with @TorontoStar. https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2021/04/21/this-manitoba-couple-lived-in-xinjiang-for-10-years-they-can-no-longer-stay-silent-about-what-they-saw.html
The man grimaced and looked terrified. The officer flew into a rage and grabbed the man around his neck, dragging him away.
This is just one of the stories that Andrea and Gary shared with @TorontoStar. https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2021/04/21/this-manitoba-couple-lived-in-xinjiang-for-10-years-they-can-no-longer-stay-silent-about-what-they-saw.html
Andrea and Gary, who are both from small towns in Manitoba, had lived in Xinjiang for almost 10 years by that point. They were fluent in Uyghur and Mandarin, and their social group was made up of mostly Uyghur families and “ordinary office workers.” https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2021/04/21/this-manitoba-couple-lived-in-xinjiang-for-10-years-they-can-no-longer-stay-silent-about-what-they-saw.html
Then came whispers of people disappearing, being taken to internment camps. The Dycks were the only resident foreigners in the area, and because they were such outsiders, Uyghur friends trusted them with their stories.
Read more: https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2021/04/21/this-manitoba-couple-lived-in-xinjiang-for-10-years-they-can-no-longer-stay-silent-about-what-they-saw.html #Xinjiang @MehmetTohti
Read more: https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2021/04/21/this-manitoba-couple-lived-in-xinjiang-for-10-years-they-can-no-longer-stay-silent-about-what-they-saw.html #Xinjiang @MehmetTohti
The Canadian couple lived down the street from one of the internment camps, which their Uyghur friend's sister was brought to, shattering the family. https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2021/04/21/this-manitoba-couple-lived-in-xinjiang-for-10-years-they-can-no-longer-stay-silent-about-what-they-saw.html @TorontoStar #Xinjiang #UyghurGenocide
. @Nuttallreports and I spoke with Andrea and Gary yesterday, ahead of their speaking out in a public forum for the first time tomorrow. We've collaborated their story, and it's well worth a read. https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2021/04/21/this-manitoba-couple-lived-in-xinjiang-for-10-years-they-can-no-longer-stay-silent-about-what-they-saw.html #uyghurs #uyghurgenocide #cdnpoli @CMHR_News
You can hear from Andrea and Gary directly tomorrow at this event. https://humanrights.ca/event/the-uyghur-genocide-in-china
*We've corroborated their story, I mean, correcting tweet above. With travel documents and photos.
This story also includes information from a new report on #Xinjiang from @HRW. It said in 2017, according to Chinese govt statistics, arrests in Xinjiang amounted to 21 per cent of all arrests in China. https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2021/04/21/this-manitoba-couple-lived-in-xinjiang-for-10-years-they-can-no-longer-stay-silent-about-what-they-saw.html cc @meifongwriter
