The 10 Conditions of Love Page #2

President Zemin promised to solve these

issues...

but I knew he wouldn't...

He's a liar.

Soon after they confiscated my passport...

and wherever I went I saw people following

me.

On August 11, 1999, I prepared 10

issues on the situation of the Uyghur people.

I was trying to hand the paper to a delegation

of US congressional staff visiting Western

China.

The police interrogated me for two

days and then they put me in prison.

The charge was leaking

national security information.

I did not commit a crime...

and they sentenced me

to eight years imprisonment.

I don't think I'm a criminal.

She had become a prisoner.

That was the most difficult time

of my entire life...

Just unthinkable.

I thought about her every single second.

I'd been in prison and I knew how difficult it

was.

It should've been me in prison, not her.

I was in solitary confinement for two years.

It was a dark room...

and there was all this waste on the floor.

It was only cleaned once a week.

Sometimes my whole body started to itch.

They brought Uyghur prisoners

into the room next to mine.

I know this because

I heard their screams all night.

They take you outside once every 45 days.

Even one minute felt like a year.

I could barely walk.

At first I couldn,t see...

Then I saw a bird flying in the sky and

I thought, why wasn't I like that?

I could just fly.

And you see, at this time...

you start to re-evaluate freedom.

You realize you don,t need money...

you don,t need clothes...

You don,t need anything.

And therefore, you are not afraid of death.

When I was in prison I became very sick,

but the authorities didn't care.

Only when Amnesty International,

Human Rights Watch got involved...

did the authorities take me to see doctors.

Wherever I live, I am Chinese.

China is my mother and father.

I swear absolutely for the unification of China.

I said, 'I will not create troubles for you,'...

that national separatists are bad...

that I was wrong, I was bad.

I was told I,d get eighteen

months medical care in the US.

They told me not to engage in political

activities,

or leak any information.

They told us that Rebiya had been freed...

but we had to stay quiet until

she was safely on the plane.

I didn't know what to say.

I was in complete shock.

- Are you going to go to your office?

- Yes, I have a meeting.

- You're not going with her?

- Sounds like Communist activity to me.

- See, he's always calling me a Communist.

- Only Communists have meetings everyday.

- Do I have meetings everyday?

Is that part done?

I need him to get that

translation done immediately.

I told him, 'Don't give me that dirty look.'

Give me a call when you're done,

I'll be here all day.

We have the right to self-determination.

I,m not saying independence,

I,m saying human rights and democracy.

If I lied and told the Chinese what they wanted

to hear, I would never have been imprisoned.

But I spoke the truth, and went to prison.

Yes, it is true they are watching me.

One time my daughter Ray saw these

people...

filming the front of my house.

It was suspicious when he reversed up...

and hit me a second time.

Now I present you with the very best...

of Uyghur culture, music and food...

the very things we wish to preserve,

and the Chinese government seeks to destroy.

They dragged my grandchildren

by their hair into a truck.

After this, 50 to 60 police officers

began beating my sons...

and they ordered my daughter to call me...

so that I could hear them screaming.

I heard my daughter say:

'They're killing my brother.'

She cried, 'Around 50 Chinese

are beating up my brother.'

After this chaotic noise,

the phone was disconnected.

That was the last time I was able

to communicate with my children.

What do these arrests tell us?

This shows first of all,

the Chinese government,s unfairness,

secondly, their unlimited shamelessness.

They think they can break my heart

because I am a mother,

if they arrest my four children

I cannot bear it.

That even if I am made of rock or metal,

I will eventually collapse.

The Chinese government has taken me very

lightly.

My current position is not because of

myself...

it,s the cry of 20 million people...

and my tears are mixed with theirs.

I will work until my last breath,

and my voice will never change.

Thank you.

Please use all of it.

You spoke like a poet.

I am not a poet, it is reality, it is what fills

me...

I want to die, Dolkum. I want to kill myself!

You did a good job.

I want to explode!

I have a question to ask...

What kind of government,

because of your political activities...

because of your parents' political activities...

takes revenge on your children?

If I stop now, they will free my children.

But they will eliminate my people

and destroy my land.

Then my happiness

will become my people's blood.

When we started campaigning...

for the human rights of our people in America,

Rebiya and I knew the dangers our family

faced.

But if we don,t fight then, who will?

Somebody must.

For one nation to stand

strong, one cannot lose hope.

What is China?

China is nothing.

Come to us, let's work together...

they say every drop of water makes an ocean.

Don't leave the hall,

I'm not collecting money today.

Don,t laugh.

Happy New Year, everybody!

Let's get this party happening.

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