{"id":1011773,"date":"2023-03-03T06:58:37","date_gmt":"2023-03-03T06:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=275785"},"modified":"2023-03-03T06:58:37","modified_gmt":"2023-03-03T06:58:37","slug":"erase-the-memory-to-erase-a-people-theyre-doing-it-in-the-usa-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/03\/03\/erase-the-memory-to-erase-a-people-theyre-doing-it-in-the-usa-too\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cErase the Memory\u201d to \u201cErase a People\u201d? They\u2019re Doing it in the USA Too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cBeyond Anything Orwell Could Have Imagined\u201d Because of his American education and the kindergarten he ran in Xingjiang that taught the Uyghur language, the linguist Tahir Hamut was incarcerated by the Chinese government for fifteen months in 2013 and 2014. \u201cChina tortured me,\u201d Hamut told the journalist and author Geoffrey Cain.\u00a0 \u201cThey sleep-deprived me.\u00a0 They  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/03\/03\/erase-the-memory-to-erase-a-people-theyre-doing-it-in-the-usa-too\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/03\/03\/erase-the-memory-to-erase-a-people-theyre-doing-it-in-the-usa-too\/\">\u201cErase the Memory&#8221; to &#8220;Erase a People\u201d? They\u2019re Doing it in the USA Too<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/03\/03\/erase-the-memory-to-erase-a-people-theyre-doing-it-in-the-usa-too\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cBeyond Anything Orwell Could Have Imagined\u201d Because of his American education and the kindergarten he ran in Xingjiang that taught the Uyghur language, the linguist Tahir Hamut was incarcerated by the Chinese government for fifteen months in 2013 and &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":272,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011773"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/272"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1011773"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1011774,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011773\/revisions\/1011774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1011773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1011773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1011773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}