The Chief Witness (Juyo Shonin Uygur no Kyosei Shuyojo wo Nogarete) [DIE KRONZEUGIN / The Chief Witness]

[Machine Translation] The author is a Kazakh woman born and raised in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. She is a doctor, teacher, and mother of two children. As the surveillance on the residents of the region intensifies day by day, one day she is suddenly detained and taken to a concentration camp called a re-education facility. There, she is subjected to unimaginable oppression of the ethnic minority living in Uyghur. They were forbidden to speak their own language, deprived of their traditions, culture, and religion, and forced to swear allegiance to the Chinese Communist Party. Repeated torture, brainwashing, and rape. Death awaited them. The author, who escaped to neighboring Kazakhstan at the risk of his life, stood up in court in 2008 and testified about the horrific reality of the ongoing situation in Uyghur. The shocking facts were reported one after another by major media outlets around the world, sending tremors throughout the world.

著者は新疆ウイグル自治区で生まれ育ったカザフ人女性。医師であり教師であり、二人の子供をもつ母親。日に日に住民に対する監視態勢が激化するなか、ある日突然、拘束されて再教育施設と呼ばれる強制収容所に連行される。そこで行われていたのはウイグルに生きる少数民族への想像を絶する弾圧だった。自分たちの言葉を禁じられ、伝統も文化も宗教も奪われて中国共産党への忠誠を誓わされる。繰り返される拷問、洗脳、レイプ。そしてその先に待ち受ける死。命がけで隣国カザフスタンに脱出した著者は、二〇一八年、法廷に立ってウイグルで現在進行中の恐るべき実態を証言した。その衝撃的な事実は各国の主要メディアによって次々と報道され世界中に激震が走った―。