Monday, April 08, 2019
MZ Digital Marketing Agency
The levelling of ancient sites in Xinjiang, alongside mass detention, is part of an attempt to destroy an entire society
Ten years ago, I started researching Islam among the Uighurs. I spent my summers travelling around the Xinjiang region in western China. I took long bus journeys through the desert to Kashgar, Yarkand and Kucha, slept on brick beds in family homes in remote villages, stopped off at Sufi shrines, and visited many, many mosques. My husband was working with me, and we dragged our kids along for the ride. The kids were quite small and not at all interested in our boring interviews with imams, and I bribed them with treats. I have a lot of photos of them sitting in the dust outside mosques, faces smeared with ice-cream, playing on their iPads.
Related: Xinjiang crackdown must continue, top China leader says
Continue reading...from The Guardian http://bit.ly/2G4QR5o
0 comments:
Post a Comment