Many lives have been lost in the Uyghur Concentration Camp, many of whom we do not know the identities of, but we do know hers. Mihriay Erkin is her name. She was a 29-year-old Uyghur student who excelled in her studies.

Very recently her death was heard about, for all we know she died in one of the Uyghur region's major camps.

China's actions in the region have been labeled "genocide" by parliaments in Canada, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and Lithuania, as well as the US State Department. Human Rights Watch (HRW) in New York claims they are crimes against humanity.

18th of June, 2019. Mihriay, a brilliant student-researcher at Japan's prestigious Nara Institute, is preparing to fly back to the Uyghur region to see her family (Xinjiang).

She was completely aware of the dangers she will face if she returns to Xinjiang, where Uighurs are persecuted and deported to internment camps. Her mother pleaded with her to return, and despite the dangers, Mihriay agreed.

“Each of us will die alone,” she wrote to her uncle Abduweli Ayup, a distinguished linguist residing in Norway: “Each of us will die alone. The love of God, our smile, and our fear is with us. I live in such scares, it is better to end it. " He attempts but fails to stop her from boarding the plane.

She discovers her father has been condemned to fourteen years in prison for "inciting terrorism" when she arrives. She seeks sanctuary in a hospital because she is in shock. Chinese police disembark and deprive her of her passport to prevent her from returning to Japan, based on information from a high-tech intelligence system meant to track down the Uighurs. She was detained in February 2020 and transferred to one of the largest concentration camps in Kashgar, which houses roughly 10,000 Uyghurs.

Supposedly Mihriay died in the camp on December 20, 2020. Only three individuals attended her burial, according to RadioFreeAsia. Those three people were under police monitoring. Police warned them that if they didn't keep it a secret, they could face charges of "revealing state secrets" and "defaming the police.

These discoveries have crushed her uncle, Abduweli Ayup. “I started exposing what is happening in Xinjiang in 2016. My best friend, with whom I started a website on the Uyghur language, was sentenced to fifteen years in prison. Then my brother, my sister, my cousins, and even my step-cousins were arrested. And now I lost Mihriay, whom I loved so much. I couldn't save anyone...The burden is immense."

China refuses to admit the existence of these camps even with evidence, so many young girls not just girls but families are dying in these camp’s and we don’t even know their names or how they are dying, very recently some data from these camps has been leaked and it’s devastating and media outlets refuse to speak out about this, please talk about them more and share posts and more people who know the more pressured China will feel to talk, it’s so so important we speak for those voices who aren’t able to speak.