2017 Xinjiang Province
Xinjiang Province is a beautiful place, and it’s tragic what is happening to the Uyghur population there. When I rode across the province in 2017, I caught glimpses of the unrest everywhere, but its scope and severity didn’t quite register. It wasn’t until the following fall, when I read a BBC News article about the situation, that I understood the scope and severity of the oppression: the forced labor, the reeducation camps, the mass sterilizations, and the myriad other crim