While we admire and promote Sayragul’s testimony, we should also remember Peyzulla, who was ruthlessly killed by the Chinese.
Some four years ago, on April 3, 2018, a hero trying to escape the iron cage was killed by Chinese weapons. His goal to expose a genocide to the world was halted by the power of China’s accusation that he was a horse thief. He did everything in his power to save himself and to expose the oppression, but no one could save him, and now few remember him. After the fourth anniversary of his death, through this memoir that proposes a comparison with another hero, I would like to pay my respects to the deceased dissident.
Read more at “Peyzulla Utuq and Sayragul Sauytbay: Two Escaped Xinjiang, One Died and One Survived”
China - in His image 