My Motherland

Camp Album Project

Featured image is credited to photographer Theo Paul.

This is a powerful music video produced by an anonymous singer friend. Shared with artist’s permission on Sep 17, 2019.

Quite a self-explanatory video telling the lived experience of Turkic speaking peoples in Xinjiang at the moment: family separation, cultural genocide, surveillance, forced inter-ethnic marriage, home invasion and spying, forced wage labor, state orphanage/residential school…

An anonymous singer salutes to his homeland in this song depicting the ongoing cultural genocide in Uyghur region

Published by Camp Album Project

Yi Xiaocuo (alias), Indigenous Turkic person grew up in northern Xinjiang. Postdoctoral researcher and founder of Camp Album Art Project.

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