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Being Uighur in China: 'After Nazi Germany the world said never again, but it is'.

@emmamurphyitv speaks to Nursiman Abdulrachid whose whole family have been taken to a Chinese camp itv.com/news/2020-09-0…
@emmamurphyitv "The world become a place like hell"

Nursiman Abdulrachid used to regularly call home to China so her parents knew all about their granddaughter's life.

Then the phone went unanswered.

Her family, Uighur Muslims, had all been taken to a Chinese camp itv.com/news/2020-09-0…
@emmamurphyitv The families of Uighurs living in China talk of genocide and ethnic cleansing.

They cling to the photographs of their missing without knowing if their loved ones are dead or alive itv.com/news/2020-09-0…
@emmamurphyitv 'Every time I dozed off they gave me an electric shock'

Gulbakhar Jalilova told us she was detained in one of the Chinese Uighur camps.

She describes how she was tortured, denied water and sleep itv.com/news/2020-09-0…

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