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Food is all about connection.

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I know for me, the taste of a piping hot,

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Earl Grey always reminds me of comfort[br]and security of home. And, you know,

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particularly when we feel disconnected[br]that taste can mean everything.

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However, there are some people who simply[br]cannot go home people like the uyghurs

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a Muslim minority group[br]from western China.

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Isobel Yeung went there undercover[br]last year's report on camps

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where China has imprisoned[br]more than a million viewers.

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To quote, unquote re-educate[br]them away from their Physicians.

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One of these Traditions is they're distinctly[br]unique Cuisine and style of cooking

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and for the more than 1 million[br]uyghurs now, living outside of China.

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It's never been more important.

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So what's the secret[br]to making good lawmen?

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Who taught you how to do this?

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My mom we grow up with by eating love[br]my making LACMA High Country nurse.

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Wow, perfect. My God, that texture is[br]amazing. They like the perfect consistency.

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We go food is really interesting[br]because it does seem like a real

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mix of different types of foods. Mean

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like,

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there's definitely some Chinese elements[br]in there with noodles and garlic

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and ginger, but then there's also a

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Like Central Asian flavors, right?

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A dealer and her mom, Maria, a uyghurs.

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They come from Northwest China[br]in a region called shinjang

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unlike the majority of China's[br]population who are Han Chinese.

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The uyghurs are mostly[br]Muslim turkic ethnicity

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who have their own language and[br]traditions much closer to Central Asia.

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My favorite weaker dishes[br]luqman or lamb Yen,

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hand-pulled noodles, served with meat,[br]pepper, scallions, cumin, and spices.

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Ian mean to you.

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Thank you. Bye. Have a good one.

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Ideally moved from China to[br]Boston to study when she was 17,

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almost a decade later.

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She opened, the only we go restaurant[br]in Massachusetts at the time

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with dishes, based on her mom's recipes.

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During that time. We as lives in[br]China, have deteriorated dramatically.

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In an effort to in their[br]words, combat terrorism.

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The Chinese government has sent[br]over. 1 million uyghurs to sprawling

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prison like camps over[br]the last three years

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here. They're frequently interrogated[br]and tortured banned from practicing Islam

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and forced to recite Chinese[br]Communist Party ideology.

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Shin Jang has been transformed[br]into a dystopian surveillance State

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Maria and adela's own family. Have[br]been swept up in the Crackdown in 2018.

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A dealer's father. Maria's husband[br]stopped answering their calls.

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Eventually they learned. He too[br]had been taken to the camps.

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When a deal is not working in[br]her restaurant, six days a week.

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She's searching for any information.[br]She can find about her. Dad, Baba,

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crushing Yugi.

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What did he tell you about how the situation[br]was changing in sinkiang? He's like,

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you know, we can't talk directly.

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We always said,

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cold or warm because he's worried[br]about the Chinese government listening.

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And if anyone get the pain,

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A day. He left my father. Always[br]called me the favorite way.

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Yeah.

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I like it a lot.

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Weakest in China, can be locked[br]away for anything from praying

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wearing a long beard or having relatives[br]abroad in our dealers father's case.

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It was for fasting during Ramadan.

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What do you think? Your[br]Dad's life is like right now?

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Oh, I don't want to think about this lake[br]is very hard. I've I get scared, you know.

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She's can't eat proper food mill.

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My mom cook for him every day. I can't[br]think about what he's eating now.

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Last year. I didn't took part in a[br]social media campaign called me to Riga.

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She's also given testimony about her[br]missing relatives and lobbied Senators,

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like, Elizabeth Warren, but speaking out[br]has exposed her on Chinese social media.

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I was dragged in a video chat.

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Was 500 Chinese there?

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They weren't like seeing[br]that. I'm I'm terrorists

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and they post all the information about[br]the restaurant. My personal information.

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Where did I go to school?[br]Where do I live? My car?

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Everything? Wow, that must've[br]been scary. I was so scared.

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In spite of the threats[br]or maybe because of them,

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the work that I dealer. Maria, and[br]Chef Arkin are doing at the restaurant,

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feels more important now than ever.

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Just having a restaurant like[br]this advertising halal food

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is no longer allowed in xinjiang.

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It seems like for all of you,

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you know, having this we go[br]restaurant is so much more than just

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about selling the food.

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It's about introducing, a culture[br]and making sure it stays alive.

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The many many jobs we can make money,[br]like easier, job restaurant is really hard

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every day a year long.

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If you like my foot,

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if you like me, this is the way[br]that you get into. We were people