The 10 Conditions of Love

China is trying to strangle

my people in their cradle...

and kill them before their

voice reaches the world.

They said the Chinese

government already realized...

how dangerous it would be...

if Rebiya Kadeer receives a Nobel Peace Prize.

Therefore, the Chinese government

wants to stop Rebiya Kadeer...

from receiving the Nobel Peace Prize.

Omar Kanat, you always give me great ideas.

I always use some of your words

when people interview me.

Firstly, it says my country is

Xinjiang in Western China.

While I am a Uyghur leader, I will

never use such a word in an article.

I'd rather not publish such an ugly article

it is a betrayal and insult to the Uyghur

people.

Listen, laws work for you in America.

Don't worry about them, worry about yourself.

Say that a solution to the East Turkestan

problem is a solution for Central Asia.

Didn,t you talk about the importance

of Uyghurs and Eastern Turkistan?

We did, we did say those...

I did say those things.

Yes, Mom?

Why can,t you all just come to my house?

It's only an hour away, right?

Come straight to my place.

Well, then I'll pick you up at your place.

Alright. See you later.

Go keep Mom company while I'm gone.

Are you tired, Elyar?

Go to bed. You have school tomorrow.

Elyar, can you go get me

a blanket from the other room?

I am from Altay...

in the Northern region of East Turkestan.

In summer, we swam in the rivers...

and rode the horses.

We picked flowers from the mountains.

Bird calls created a wonderful music.

The environment was beautiful then.

When the Communist Liberation Army

arrived...

they played a really smart game.

They hand-picked certain people...

and positioned them at the front of the

crowds...

to applaud the army,s arrival

You see, in the beginning, the soldiers

just started to clean everywhere.

They would help old people carry water.

They used to treat people who were sick.

They did a lot of good things.

After two months,

they started to make demands.

They said all Uyghurs who are rich

and making money...

are devils and are taking money

from ordinary people.

They told us these Uyghurs must be

destroyed.

Rich Uyghurs were executed in every village.

Any Uyghur who spoke out

was killed or imprisoned.

The government implemented a plan...

to spread us throughout

our homeland to separate us.

My father was branded as a capitalist.

Therefore, when I was a young child,

we were forced to move south to Aksul.

So to control the Uyghurs, they

disempowered them, made them poor.

Second, they gave them no proper education

and third, they took their religion.

At this point, Uyghurs began to open their

eyes.

But it was too late. They were already

colonized.

Every time there was a resistance, I wanted

to be a member and join their movement.

I was proud of them, of what they were doing.

They were my heroes.

At this time my ex-husband,s

salary was very low.

He earned only seven dollars a month.

I had six kids, I couldn't live on this.

So I began to secretly embroider

designs on kids shoes and clothing.

Eventually my embroidery work

was found out.

As my ex-husband was a communist

party member and cadre,

the government bank where he worked

pressured my husband to divorce me.

I experienced much hardship

when I started my business...

as people didn,t have respect for me.

But I proved them all wrong.

I travelled through many villages...

and saw the poor state of my people.

As I became more successful,

I understood why the Chinese government...

left Uyghur people disadvantaged.

When you,re poor,

you can,t organise with others...

to discuss your situation, your people,

your nation,s future.

After divorcing my first husband...

I laid out 10 conditions of love on my ideal

man.

A noble man who could free my people,

a man who could pay a personal

price for his people's freedom,

and reject bribes of money or gifts

for political favors.

To find him, I took a flight to Kashgar...

and then a car to a small town,

from where I walked for many miles.

I didn't know if he was handsome or not.

I knew only one thing, that he loves his

people.

I surprised the villagers when I arrived...

wearing an expensive dress and white mink

coat.

When I first saw him, I was surprised.

He was so young, and very handsome.

At first he was speechless.

He asked me, 'Why did you come here?

Why are you looking for me?'

It was like an angel had

dropped from the sky.

I was totally shocked.

I said, 'I'm going to help you...

and you're going to help me...

and we are both going to help our people...

and therefore I want to marry you.'

Look, during this time I was very attractive.

I had long beautiful hair.

How could he resist me?

The other villagers became suspicious.

They told me perhaps

Rebiya is a spy...

but I never suspected her.

Still I asked her,

just to be sure.

This made her angry,

quite angry.

She's still angry.

I said I'll leave now,

but you'll come looking for me.

And he did.

He completely remembered my face, my hair,

my words, my whole appearance...

and wrote me a book of 260 poems.

''A bullet has wounded my heart...

and I am a lonely bird,

who cannot find a place to land.''

This was the first poem in his book:

Soon after this we were married.

I still ask myself what a

woman like Rebiya saw in me.

I had no money, no job,

nothing.

But she knows my heart,

she knows I love my country...

and she knows that I love her.

They were poor, not because

they were unintelligent,

but because of China's policies.

When I started the 1000 Mothers movement,

I was planning on creating heroes.

I told them, 'If you save yourself,

and your family, then you will become a hero.'

'Nobody,s coming to save you.'

'You must save yourself.'

For some, I became a savior...

and others began to praise me.

I felt obligated to help them...

and this feeling grows every day.

I felt like I was chosen among a very modern

and

select group of women.

I went ahead with a speech

about the persecution of Uyghurs.

But I was under surveillance.

The Chinese government thought

I would be someone who could follow orders.

This was not the case.

I heard that Sidik had become a

target for authorities.

How did Rebiya know this classified

information?

Because Chinese officials have wives.

I told Sidik he must leave the country,

but he resisted.

He said, 'My body and my heart will stay here.'

It,s the most difficult time when

a person has to leave his own country.

So I tricked him.

I said we have business to do in the US,

but when we arrived...

I immediately started the case

for his political asylum.

I was in Ghulja two hours after the attack.

I recorded everything.

I had cases of video and pictures.

When I got to the airport

they stripped everything from me.

At first I felt I could work

with the Chinese government.

I was thinking they must be human.

I handed them a very sugar coated speech.

My actual speech was quite different.

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