Opinion Today: When people start disappearing

The Uyghur poet Tahir Hamut Izgil reflects on the slow creep of authoritarianism. 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The first things to go are relatively minor — stamps, perfume, ribbon — but, pretty soon, bigger things begin vanishing. One day, there are no boats. Then no birds. Then no photographs. Curiously, most of the island’s inhabitants seem not to notice the losses, forgetting each as though it had never existed. But a select few people are somehow able to remember, and the plot of the book unfolds around their struggle to preserve that memory as the world around them disintegrates. It’s a powerful and unsettling book, and I was reminded of it a few weeks ago when I received an advance copy of the Uyghur poet Tahir Hamut Izgil’s memoir, “Waiting to Be Arrested at Night.” [In a guest essay adapted from the book,](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRmpjQMP0TtaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAyMy8wNy8yOC9vcGluaW9uL3V5Z2h1ci1jaGluYS1pbnRlcm5tZW50LWF1dGhvcml0YXJpYW4uaHRtbD9jYW1wYWlnbl9pZD0zOSZlbWM9ZWRpdF90eV8yMDIzMDcyOCZpbnN0YW5jZV9pZD05ODY3MiZubD1vcGluaW9uLXRvZGF5JnJlZ2lfaWQ9Nzc2NzQ5NTImc2VnbWVudF9pZD0xNDA1MTgmdGU9MSZ1c2VyX2lkPWFhNDkxZWY3ZjFkOTY0ZTQ5NzlmYjc4NGU3NGUwMWQ3VwNueXRCCmS2DK_DZNxLQJRSG3RyaXN0cmFtYmFsZHdpbjkwQGdtYWlsLmNvbVgEAAAAAw~~) Izgil paints a chilling picture of [China’s brutal repression of the Uyghur population and other Muslim minority groups](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRmpjQMP0TraHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAyMS8wMS8yMC93b3JsZC9hc2lhL2NoaW5hLWdlbm9jaWRlLXVpZ2h1cnMtZXhwbGFpbmVkLmh0bWw_Y2FtcGFpZ25faWQ9MzkmZW1jPWVkaXRfdHlfMjAyMzA3MjgmaW5zdGFuY2VfaWQ9OTg2NzImbmw9b3Bpbmlvbi10b2RheSZyZWdpX2lkPTc3Njc0OTUyJnNlZ21lbnRfaWQ9MTQwNTE4JnRlPTEmdXNlcl9pZD1hYTQ5MWVmN2YxZDk2NGU0OTc5ZmI3ODRlNzRlMDFkN1cDbnl0Qgpktgyvw2TcS0CUUht0cmlzdHJhbWJhbGR3aW45MEBnbWFpbC5jb21YBAAAAAM~). Like Ogawa’s novel, Izgil’s essay begins with a series of mysterious disappearances and changes: not of objects, but of people. And, like in the novel, no one really seems to pay attention at first. Izgil — one of the most prominent writers and activists from his community right now — recalls the slow creep of authoritarianism in his homeland with a certain poetic eeriness. “It began slowly, quietly. The editors of a well-known literature textbook were suddenly nowhere to be found. A friend of mine left for work and never came home,” he writes. “The political situation in our region had been growing gradually more tense for several years, but still, we hoped and assumed that these disappearances were isolated incidents,” he confesses in the next paragraph. 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