little amo aged 8 is inside, possibly alive. by the time they get her to the ambulance, though, it s clear they were too late. her mother, outside, only able to watch her everything vanish. my little one, she says. don t take her. don t let her get lost. antakya s streets a chilling patchwork of what s left standing and what s not left. in its ruins anxious crowds of rescuers and locals thinking they heard someone alive. demanding silence so they can listen again. down here is ahmed, the he rescuers say, alert, responsive, a syrian refugee. the building next to him barely hanging on at an angle. their work desperately wishing it were quicker. across the city hell has landed. this man guarding his neighbor s books with his father-in-law next to the body of his mother-in-law. he gestures behind him to where he once lived. it s kind of hard to get your head around just how inhabitable a city of this size has become so fast. literally every street you walk down has a scene li
zenz launched the search engine, hoping it will provide the uighur diaspora information about family members back home in xinjiang. the black hole is the most terrifying thing. and i think that s part of why the chinese state creates this black hole. it s the most terrifying thing that can be done, that you don t even know the fate of a loved one, are they even alive or death. reporter: mamajan juma remembers june 12th, 2006, the last time he saw his family. i remember that day. i was passing the airport checkpoint and they were waving. and i saw them their image is still in my mind, you know. the picture. it comes to me sometimes. that s the last time i saw my brothers. reporter: juma is now a journalist with radio free asia s uighur language service in washington, d.c., which beijing labels as an anti-china propaganda organization. unable to go home for fear of arrest and unwilling to even call his relatives for fear they could then be punished.