Mehmet Emin Hazret’s book “East Turkestan – A Genocide Buried in Silence” has been published. It gives voice to a people being erased.
Uyghur writer, and screenwriter Mehmet Emin Hazret’s new book, “East Turkestan: The Genocide the World Chose to Forget: Voices, Evidence, and the Echoes of Silence” was recently published in both English. This book is the voice of a people being erased. As Uyghurs are silenced, their language banned, and their culture destroyed, silence is complicity. Read, feel, remember—and do not stay silent.
This book is not merely a narrative;
It is a cry.
In the vast expanse of China,
To the east of maps,
Beyond the reach of screens,
Outside the glare of headlines…
A people are being erased from history—
By denial, by silence, by forced oblivion.
They are the Uyghurs.
The ancient children of East Turkestan.
Bearers of a civilization, a faith, a culture spanning millennia.
Now, their voice is being silenced.
Their language forbidden.
Their faith criminalized.
Their children forcibly reshaped into alien identities.
When the systematic, silent annihilation of a people unfolds before our eyes—
To remain silent is to lose not just one’s conscience,
But one’s very humanity.
This book was written so we do not stay silent.
This book was written so we do not forget.
This book was written so that one day, this people may sing again.
Every line you read here
Is either a witness’s testimony…
Or the echo of a bullet in a child’s cradle…
Or the tear of a mother…
Or the silent scream of a vanishing tongue.
But every word is true.
Some passages may enrage you.
Some sentences may bring tears to your eyes.
Some pages may make your head bow.
And precisely for these reasons—this book must exist.
Because tyranny wins not only when it is imposed,
But when it is forgotten.
Because silence in the face of a people’s destruction is complicity.
And because to write is to bear witness.
East Turkestan is not merely a land;
It is a memory.
The Uyghurs are not merely a nation;
They are a resistance.
And this book is not merely a text;
It is a test of our humanity.
Read.
Feel.
Remember.
And please… do not stay silent.
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