The Uighurs are a Turkic people more closely related to Uzbeks and Kazakhs than to Chinese. Barbara Demick Read Quote
Since 2009, 140 Tibetans have immolated themselves to protest Chinese policies that limit their freedom of movement, speech and religion, especially their right to venerate the Dalai Lama. Barbara Demick Read Quote
Walking down the street with a portrait of the Dalai Lama will get one immediately arrested in most parts of China. Tiny medallions are routinely confiscated and destroyed. Barbara Demick Read Quote
People have crossed the Himalayas in flip-flops seeking a blessing from the Dalai Lama. Barbara Demick Read Quote
In 1995, the Chinese government picked a 6-year-old child to succeed the Panchen Lama, the second highest figure in Tibetan Buddhism. Barbara Demick Read Quote
In 1949, Mao Tse-tung’s Communists established the People’s Republic of China, and the following year, his People’s Liberation Army invaded central Tibet. Barbara Demick Read Quote
North Korea is not an undeveloped country; it is a country that has fallen out of the developed world. Barbara Demick Read Quote
In the 1990s, the United States offered to help North Korea with its energy needs if it gave up its nuclear weapons programme. Barbara Demick Read Quote
In 1991, few North Koreans had ever used a telephone. You had to go to a post office to make a phone call. Barbara Demick Read Quote
As a reader, I’ve always been interested in dystopian novels like ‘Nineteen Eighty-four’. Barbara Demick Read Quote