Opinion: China is trying to destroy Uighur culture. We’re trying to save it.
Bahram Sintash with his father, Qurban Mamut, in Washington, D.C., in February 2017. By Bahram Sintash March 18 at 2:23 PM Bahram Sintash, who was born in Xinjiang, China, lives in the United States. Since January, he has been building Uyghurism.com to preserve digital copies of the popular Uighur journal Xinjiang Civilization.
“You are from a lucky generation. I hope what happened to us never happens again,” my father had said as he showed me the scars on his back from the torture he had endured for supporting the Chinese revolutionary Liu Shaoqi. The Red Guards captured my father in 1967. During his captivity, they hung him by his wrists and whipped him.
My father had always trodden carefully, knowing what words and sentences were off limits, as the government could deem them as hinting at Uighur independence or separatism. While editor-in-chief of Xinjiang Civilization, he sought to educate Uighurs about our history and to keep our rich culture alive for the next generation. This was a Communist Party-run publication, meaning the government signed off on everything.
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