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My name is Najmidin Reman, I’m an ethnic Uyghur living in the Netherlands. The last time I talked to one of my family member was. at the end of 2015, that time my mother was on the phone crying while she was telling me that my father Mamut Raman was sentenced to 1 year prison, and my younger brother Alim Mamut was for 6 months. They were both accused of committing a “political” crime, i am almost certain the reason my family was charged of committing a crime was because he shared couple of photos of himself with me via Wechat (Chinese version of Whatsapp). After losing contact for a period of 3 years, I learned in October 2018 that my grandfather Raman Idris died in a camp, as I wanted to know more about his death I looked for answers and somehow managed to find someone who’s living on abroad and knew about the death of my grandfather. According to him who’s willing to stay anonymous, my grandfather was detained in June 2016 and passed away in a hospital shortly after being released. I think the reasons that he was taken to camp was because he made a pilgrimage to Mecca, visited Kazakhstan and couple of other countries in the region along with extended family members. Most probably those who accompanied him throughout his journey are taken to camps as well, cause according to China its a crime to visit foreign countries for Uyghurs.

My grandfather

My 70 years old grandfather couldn’t have been an extremist, nor could he have shaken China’s stability and destabilize the region, as that’s the excuse government is using to send Uighurs, Kazakhs and other minority’s in Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region to the camps. While I was still mourning for the unjustifiable fate of my grandfather, and as if losing grandfather in a tragic way wasn’t already enough. I learned in March 2019 that my grandfather’s younger brother Bawudun Idris (Bawudong Yidelisi) who was at his 60s and my father Mamut Raman(Mamutijiang Reman) 49 also died in a concentration camp, and most of my extended and close family members are locked up in camps. I called many local police stations in Kashgar, Ürümqi and the Chinese embassy in the Hague hoping to hear that my father still lives. But until now I’m unsuccessful on getting somewhere, as no one is willing to tell me about the well-beings of my family Back Home. There’re also other families of mine that are arbitrarily locked up and no sign of being alive. The following are names and addresses of my family in kashgar, by sharing it with the public I’m hoping that Chinese government releases them from the camps and prisons. Maybe I’m being delusional or too optimistic to think that this will actually help them to get released.

Home address in Kashgar: 中国 新疆 喀什市浩罕乡库康14村 50–55号.

Names of close family members:

My younger brother: 阿力木江 马木提江 Ali mu jiang Ma mu ti jiang

Names: 果亚古丽 热曼 Guo ya gu li Re man

买买提明 热曼 Mai mai ti ming. Re man

阿热孜古丽 热曼 A re zi gu li Re man

阿部读外力 热曼 A bu du wai li Re man

热伊罕古丽 热曼 Re yi han gu li Re man

买合木提江 库那婚. Mai he mu ti jiang. Ku na hun.

My father: 马木提江 热曼. Ma mu ti jiang Re man

My younger sister Nurbia’s son.

Other families’ names and their ages respectively:

Tajigul Ghopur 63, Guyagul Reman 47, Memtimin Reman 36, Arzigul Reman 34 , Abduwali Reman 31,Reyhangul Reman 30,

Idris Ahun 36, Hestili Ahun 38, Denagul Ahun 29, Kasim Ahun 25.

Bawudun Idris 60, Yehya Bewudun 37, Zorigul Bawudun 36 Ayshemgul Bawudun 31, Ghopur Bawudun 23.

Kunahun 54( made pilgrimage), Gheni 38, Mahmud Kunahun 26( studied in. EU&Turkey). I’ll be adding. 30 or more names will to this list of missing people.

My biological mother Reyhangul Helptim 45–50 years old and her three children, namely Busara 23, Abdurazzak 20, Memtimin 31-year-old respectively. Families mentioned above have 2–3 children and grandchildren, all of them were financially well off. They could support their own families and do their yearly charity to needy ones in their neighborhoods. No vocational training needed in China’s “vocational training” centers. My family members are known to public as a chemical fertilizer sellers in their neighborhoods and in Kashgar City until the year 2007, later became a real estate developer in Kashgar City. Based on the information I got in 2016 that my families assets were frozen and the property confiscated by the officials, then between 2016–2017 sent to “ re-education” camps. The only reason which gives me hope to live is to see justice being delivered, as I am/was not able to help secure their release. What I can do for now is to make my families story heard, name and shame the Chinese government for its actions. Therefore, I need help of people who’re holding top positions to say/do something about it, as I’m incapable of easing their pain, suffering and bring an end to their nightmares. You may think/say that your story isn’t unique, atrocities committed in many parts of the world. But if one day I’ll be asked what I did living in a free world knowing that my family along with other 3 million Uyghurs suffering in China’s concentration camp, I’ll say it was beyond my ability to ease their suffering, hence I requested help from other people/organizations.

Thanks in advance for those who’ll or won’t read my languishing families story. If you care about vanishing and dying of totally innocent people, please share my post.

The YouTube video below is my testimony for my family members back home in Kashgar, asking China to release those who may still be alive now.