Thankyou to Don Clarke for this little vignette which is just one small illustration as to the sort of Dantean life Uyghurs live in the dystopian rascist state that is China.
If you’re a Uyghur driver, the breathalyzer test is used to catch people who have not been drinking. ????.
On the advice of a police contact, Sholpan and her husband started going to dance parties and drinking alcohol in order to show they were not religious. Once, on their way home from a party, the police pulled them over and breathalysed them. They asked why Sholpan’s husband had not been drinking. He said he didn’t want to drink and drive. When the police found that Sholpan had been drinking, they let them go. “We had to perform the way they wanted us to perform,” said Sholpan. “If they said drink, we drank.”
Darren Byler, Big Brother vs China’s Uyghurs, Prospect, Aug. 28, 2020 [https://perma.cc/G8QM-YYYE]
Don Clarke
