Uighurs arrested; stars Siirius and Vega

-Behram Yarmuhemmed shown here playing the dutar, a traditional Uighur musical instrument.  He was forced into an extrajudicial internment camp in 2016

  In Yarmuhemmed’s family apartment the police found an MP3 player with recordings of Koran recitations, and Rmb30,000 in cash (about £3,400). Yarmuhemmed, 28, was arrested, tried and jailed for 10 years. Asqar never found out what he’d been charged with.  His 29-year-old brother Behram was taken to an extrajudicial internment camp a month later. 

What happened to the Yarmuhemmeds — police searches, sudden detentions, the separation of families — has been repeated across hundreds of thousands of households in Xinjiang in the past few years, as China’s Communist party has placed the entire region in lockdown…

-Kamaltürk Yalqun, left, with his father Yalqun Rozi, a prominent writer.  In October 2016, he rang his father for a chat: ‘It’s not a good time.  I’m about to be taken away,’ Rozi said.

  He would later discover that Rozi had been jailed for 15 years on charges of “inciting subversion of state power”.  The narrator of the film described the textbook compilers’ crimes in percentages and keyword frequencies:  30 per cent was the upper limit for minority-language sources; the texts were 60 per cent Uighur materials.  In 200,000 words of text “China” appeared only four times.

  https://www.ft.com/content/48508182-d426-11e9-8367-807ebd53ab77

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  What's especially amazing about Vega and Sirius is that these two beacons point out the path of our solar system's orbit around the center of the Milky Way Galaxy. To a good approximation, Vega marks the Apex of the Sun's Way -- the direction in which the Sun and its accompanying planets move through space. Sirius, on the other hand, spotlights the approximate position of the Solar Antapex -- the direction from which the Sun is traveling. Looking at Vega, we're peering through the windshield of our solar system; and gazing at Sirius, we looking out our rear window.    http://www.idialstars.com/vas.htm
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Sirius rising predawn this a.m., Vega at setting (at 41 degrees N. latitude).
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