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‘I Am the Living Proof’: The Uyghur Survivor, the Slave Compound, and the Forced Labor System Carney Cannot Escape

TORONTO — His dark eyebrows bunched in memory of the shocking pain, Sulayman makes a sharp buzzing sound and jabs his inner wrist with a small cup, demonstrating how he was electrocuted by Chinese gangsters in a slave cyber-scam compound in Cambodia. It is a similar expression — pain, disbelief, disgust — that shapes his face when asked to describe to Prime Minister Mark Carney and Liberal Member of Parliament Michael Ma his prior lived experience, and that of his older relatives, and of Uyghurs across Xinjiang, working in forced labor factories and farms under the yoke of China’s police state.

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