VANCOUVER—The two Canadians were walking down a sidewalk in their neighbourhood in Turpan, a city in China’s northwestern Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, when everyone seemed to freeze. Everyone acted calm, because nobody wanted to be noticed by police, too,” Andrea Dyck recalled of the 2017 incident. Andrea and her husband Gary, who are both from small towns in Manitoba, had lived in Xinjiang for almost 10 years by that point. The couple were speaking to the Star ahead of a public virtual event on Thursday hosted by the Canadian Museum for Human Rights. The Dycks were the only resident foreigners in the area, and because they were such outsiders, Uyghur friends trusted them with their stories.

Source: thestar April 21, 2021 17:48 UTC