The 10 Conditions of Love Page #2

she knows I love my country...

and she knows that I love her.

They were poor, not because

they were unintelligent,

but because of China's policies.

When I started the 1000 Mothers movement,

I was planning on creating heroes.

I told them, 'If you save yourself,

and your family, then you will become a hero.'

'Nobody,s coming to save you.'

'You must save yourself.'

For some, I became a savior...

and others began to praise me.

I felt obligated to help them...

and this feeling grows every day.

I felt like I was chosen among a very modern

and

select group of women.

I went ahead with a speech

about the persecution of Uyghurs.

But I was under surveillance.

The Chinese government thought

I would be someone who could follow orders.

This was not the case.

I heard that Sidik had become a

target for authorities.

How did Rebiya know this classified

information?

Because Chinese officials have wives.

I told Sidik he must leave the country,

but he resisted.

He said, 'My body and my heart will stay here.'

It,s the most difficult time when

a person has to leave his own country.

So I tricked him.

I said we have business to do in the US,

but when we arrived...

I immediately started the case

for his political asylum.

I was in Ghulja two hours after the attack.

I recorded everything.

I had cases of video and pictures.

When I got to the airport

they stripped everything from me.

At first I felt I could work

with the Chinese government.

I was thinking they must be human.

I handed them a very sugar coated speech.

My actual speech was quite different.

President Zemin promised to solve these

issues...

but I knew he wouldn't...

He's a liar.

Soon after they confiscated my passport...

and wherever I went I saw people following

me.

On August 11, 1999, I prepared 10

issues on the situation of the Uyghur people.

I was trying to hand the paper to a delegation

of US congressional staff visiting Western

China.

The police interrogated me for two

days and then they put me in prison.

The charge was leaking

national security information.

I did not commit a crime...

and they sentenced me

to eight years imprisonment.

I don't think I'm a criminal.

She had become a prisoner.

That was the most difficult time

of my entire life...

Just unthinkable.

I thought about her every single second.

I'd been in prison and I knew how difficult it

was.

It should've been me in prison, not her.

I was in solitary confinement for two years.

It was a dark room...

and there was all this waste on the floor.

It was only cleaned once a week.

Sometimes my whole body started to itch.

They brought Uyghur prisoners

into the room next to mine.

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