Xinjiang Concentration Camp Victim Testifies in Taiwan for the first time.

#Xinjiang #ConcentrationCamp

Gulbahar Jalilova is a Kazakh businesswoman, who did business across the border of China and Kazakhstan and was arbitrarily detained in Urumqi and sent into the camps. She cried as she testified that she was gang-raped in the camps.

"They put a 5kg anklet on my feet on the first day of detention. I was only unchained after 465 days when I left the detention centre."

When she was asked about the cruelty she faced inside the concentration camps, she could not stop sobbing.

"All females received injections every month. We were not sure why we were injected. But some young girls had menopause after 1-2 injections."

Gulbahar is a citizen of Kazakhstan but was arrested in Urumqi arbitrarily. She was charged with "sponsoring terrorists", which to her is a phoney charge, and was detained in the concentration camp. Because she was unwilling to plead guilty, she was sexually abused. Ilham from the Yapunye Uyghur Jemiyiti (Japanese Uyghur Association) was interpreting for the press, but he was so upset by the account that he stopped interpreting intermittently. 

"The first trial was conducted 3 months after the arrest. 

They first took me outside, then, to a dark room, next, to the trial room, and finally to another room. In there, I was gang-raped... " 

Ilham could not continue interpreting; he took out his handkerchief to wipe away the tears, told the reporters that he could not sleep last night after hearing Gulbahar's experience. It was the first time a victim from the #Xinjiang concentration camp had testified in Taiwan.

Gulbahar said she was saved because her family had written countless letters to the United Nations to beg for help, and she was released after the UN wrote to the Chinese Authorities. She has now escaped and is living in Turkey. The Chinese Authorities hadh demanded that she keep her mouth shut about the conditions inside the camps, but she could not leave the inmates she met behind. She hopes she is able to raise international awareness (to save other females in the concentration camp).

PTS News（24-Oct) 

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