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Internment Camps

World

One by One, My Friends Were Sent to the Camps

A celebrated Uyghur writer gives a first-person account of the genocide in Xinjiang.

Tahir Hamut Izgil The Atlantic Jul 2021 50min Permalink

History World

Enemy Aliens

The history of civilian internment camps.

Andrea Pitzer Lapham's Quarterly Dec 2014 15min Permalink

World

Her Uighur Parents Were Model Chinese Citizens. It Didn’t Matter.

When Zulhumar Isaac’s parents disappeared amid a wave of detentions of ethnic minorities, she had to play a perilous game with the state to get them back.

Sarah A. Topol New York Times Magazine Jan 2020 50min Permalink

Politics World Religion

Weather Reports: Voices From Xinjiang

Firsthand accounts of the largest and most ambitious internment drive of a minority group since Nazi Germany, emerging from a region of totalitarian surveillance and control.

Ben Mauk The Believer Oct 2019 1h30min Permalink

The Forgotten Internment

During World War II, the indigenous Aleut people were forced into camps. 10% died.

Eva Holland Maisonneuve Jul 2014 20min Permalink