Reviews tagging 'Sexual violence'

The Chief Witness: escape from China’s modern-day concentration camps by Sayragul Sauytbay

3 reviews

thejennybee's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring sad tense fast-paced

5.0

What an important and terrifying account from an articulate survivor of some of the worst atrocities on the planet. The Chinese government is every bit as evil as Nazi Germany was, and committing human rights horrors on millions of people. Today, now. As we speak. The book also describes China’s stated plans for literal world domination, with the United States as their public enemy #1. It’s unsettling to say the least how pernicious their actions to eradicate whole peoples and cultures are, and how the persecuted citizenry talks itself into accepting one dehumanization after another to avoid violence upon themselves and their loved ones. We say there’s nothing we could do to intervene. We say their abuses and forced imprisonment in concentration camps and torture and genocide couldn’t happen here. Neither of those things feels true after reading this book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child death, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Hate crime, Infertility, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Police brutality, Islamophobia, Medical content, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Religious bigotry, Abortion, Murder, Cultural appropriation, Gaslighting, Colonisation, and Deportation

amachonis's review against another edition

dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Sexual violence, Torture, Forced institutionalization, Islamophobia, Murder, Gaslighting, Colonisation, and Deportation

destdest's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense fast-paced

 This is a tough book to rate. I don’t know how Sayragul survived. She is truly resilient. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual violence, Torture, Xenophobia, Islamophobia, and Sexual harassment