Waiting to Be Arrested at Night: A Uyghur Poet's Memoir of China's Genocide

Waiting to Be Arrested at Night: A Uyghur Poet's Memoir of China's Genocide

A poet's account of one of the world's most urgent humanitarian crises, and a harrowing tale of a family's escape from genocide

One by one, Tahir Hamut Izgil's friends disappeared. The Chinese governme…

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