A German book about the testimony of Mehrigul Tursun, a witness to the camp, has been published.
On January 17, Heyne Verlag, one of Germany's leading publishing houses, held a press conference in Berlin to present the book, "The Impossible Place," co-authored by writer Andrea C. Hoffman and camp witness Mehrigul Tursun.
On page 1 of the book, which was published in German, Mehrigul Tursun, the protagonist of the book and a witness at the camp now living in the United States, said, I survived to witness these things. "It simply came to our notice then. The title of the book also includes a note from the pen-shaking author Adria S. Hoffman about the courage to read the book.
The press conference that day was attended by Ms. Hoffman, the pen-shaking author of the book, the editors of the publishing house, and the specially invited journalists. Mehrigul Tursun attended the meeting online.
The book, Where You Can't Go, describes the 31-year-old Mehrigul Tursun's innocence, incarceration in prisons and camps by the Chinese government, and the incredible tragedies he has witnessed and witnessed. In addition to the stories of Mehrigul's escape, the book also sheds light on the process of her upbringing, the fact that the Uyghurs are a different nation from China, the unique culture of the Uyghurs, and their aspirations.
Mehriban Mehmet, a Uyghur activist in Germany who translated between Mehrigul and the pen-shaking author at the time of writing the book, told us in an interview that the process of penning the book was very impressive. "No reader can help but be impressed by Mehrigul's tragic experiences, which ordinary people cannot imagine," he said.
At a time when the secrets of the Chinese government's concentration camps in the Uyghur region have yet to be revealed, Mehrigul Tursun, 29, was released in March 2018 with the intervention of the Egyptian embassy in China and arrived in Cairo in late April of that year. He also arrived in the United States in September of that year and settled there.
After arriving in the United States, Mehrigul Tursun was interviewed by RFA as the first female survivor of a Chinese-language camp in Uyghur Autonomous Region. Since then, Mehrigul has testified in various international media outlets about the hardships and famines in the camps,
Sitting on a "tiger's chair", not sleeping, sexually harassing and raping, not treating patients has exposed the oppression of the human mind to the world.
Mehrigul Tursun testified in the U.S. Congress in November 2018 that millions of innocent Uighurs like her were being targeted by China for their Uighur identity. Mehrigul's courage in revealing the truth in spite of various threats had impressed many American politicians and the media.
Mehrgul Tursun, who was interviewed on the occasion of the publication of his book "Barsa Kelmes Jai", said that it took more than a year and a half to co-author the book, with the first edition of the book coming out in 85,000 copies and being translated into other languages.
Mehrigul also said that she was very pleased that the book was published ahead of the Beijing Winter Olympics and hoped that the book would promote anti-China sentiment.
Earlier, a cartoon by Ms. Tomomi, a Japanese cartoonist about Mehrigul Tursun's testimony, entitled "My Experience is the Testimony of an Uyghur Woman," was published in Japan in 2019.
Mehrigul Tursun's book, The Nightmare of the Camp, is the 3rd book on the testimony of the witnesses of the camp after the books starring Sairagul Savutbay and Gulbahar Heitivaji.
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