The Story of Zuhre Sultan, Uyghur Exile: “The CCP Took Away My Entire Family”

Bitter Winter

The Story of Zuhre Sultan, Uyghur Exile: “The CCP Took Away My Entire Family”

29 of her relatives are detained, disappeared, dead, or still serving lengthy prison sentences. She tells her—and their—story to “Bitter Winter.” by Ruth Ingram Zuhre Sultan, at a meeting of the Concentration Camp Survivors’ Group in Istanbul, demanding to know where her relatives might be. Photo by Ruth Ingram. Buwajir Allavedi was everyone’s friend. Mother of four children, she never strayed far from the village of her birth during the course …