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Abdulahat Nur’s father, Nur Kasim, with his grandchildren (Abdulahat’s children). The girl with her hands wrapped around Kasim, is Nur’s older daughter Peridem, who was left in East Turkistan. The boy in the blue shirt is his youngest child Alimjan, who was killed in 2006. The picture was taken in 2005 in his hometown of Maralbeshi. Credit: courtesy of Abdulahat Nur