China: The Uighur Tragedy

China: The Uighur Tragedy

105 mins | Documentary | Feb. 1, 2022

A relentless chronicle of the tragedy of the Uighurs, an ethnic minority of some eleven million people who live in the Xinjiang region of northwest China, speak a Turkic language and practice the Muslim religion. The Uighurs suffer brutal cultural and political oppression by Xin Jinping's tyrannical government: torture, disappearances, forced labor, re-education of children and adults, mass sterilizations, extensive surveillance and destruction of historical heritage.

China: The Uighur Tragedy

105 mins | Documentary | Feb. 1, 2022

China: The Uighur Tragedy
A relentless chronicle of the tragedy of the Uighurs, an ethnic minority of some eleven million people who live in the Xinjiang region of northwest China, speak a Turkic language and practice the Muslim religion. The Uighurs suffer brutal cultural and political oppression by Xin Jinping's tyrannical government: torture, disappearances, forced labor, re-education of children and adults, mass sterilizations, extensive surveillance and destruction of historical heritage.
Producers RTBF, RTS, ARTE GEIE, YUZU Productions, Découpages
Original title Chine : le drame ouïghour
Directors François Reinhardt
Writers François Reinhardt, Romain Franklin

Cast

Alexis Victor

as Self - Narrator (voice)

Sean Roberts

as Self - Anthropologist

Xia Ming

as Self - Political Scientist

Shen Dingli

as Self - Political Scientist

Christopher Buckley

as Self - Journalist

Shohret Hoshur

as Self - Uighur Journalist

Adrian Zenz

as Self - Anthropologist

Olsi Jazexhi

as Self - Journalist

Kelbinur Sidiq

as Self - Uzbek Refugee

Omir Bekali

as Self - Kazakh Refugee

Tursunay Ziyawudun

as Self - Uighur Refugee

Sophie Richardson

as Self - Human Rights Activist

James Leibold

as Self - Researcher

James Millward

as Self - Historian

Tumaris Yalkun

as Self - Uighur Student

Wu Qiang

as Self - Analyst

Hu Angang

as Self - Economist

Abdurehim Gheni

as Self - Uighur Activist

Jean-Maurice Ripert

as Self - Diplomat

Joe Biden

as Self - Politician (archive footage)

Xi Jinping

as Self - Politician (archive footage)

Gay Johnson McDougall

as Self - Lawyer (archive footage)

Sattar Sawut

as Self - Uighur Official (archive footage)

Mao Zedong

as Self - Politician (archive footage)

Kurban Tulum

as Self - Uighur Farmer (archive footage)

Deng Xiaoping

as Self - Politician (archive footage)

George W. Bush

as Self - Politician (archive footage)

Chen Quanguo

as Self - Politician (archive footage)