“他们把新疆的土著人民描绘成移民，把伊斯兰教描绘成对该地区陌生的宗教，”贾泽希说。 “这是不正确的 。 “
只有当他和其他记者被中国东道主带到乌鲁木齐地区首府以外的一个所谓的职业培训中心时，他的幻想才得以破灭。
“他们说这就像一所学校，但它显然是沙漠中一个高度安全的地点，”Jazexhi说。
“他们还告诉我们，住在那里的人不允许离开，所以显然不是学校，而是一所监狱，那里的人不是学生，而是囚犯。
一旦他们进入该网站，Jazexhi有机会与几名维吾尔人互动，很快就清楚他们不是北京声称的”恐怖分子”或”极端分子”。
“They were portraying the indigenous people of Xinjiang as immigrants and Islam as a religion that was foreign to the region,” Jazexhi said. “It was incorrect.”
His disillusion only continued when he and other journalists were taken by their Chinese hosts to one of the so-called vocational training centres outside the regional capital of Urumqi.
“They said it was like a school but it was clearly a high-security site in the middle in the desert,” Jazexhi said.
“They also told us that the people staying there were not allowed to leave so it was obviously not a school but a prison and the people there were not students but prisoners.”
Once they entered the site, Jazexhi had a chance to interact with several Uighurs and it quickly became clear they were not the “terrorists” or “extremists” Beijing had claimed.
At the same time, information flowing in and out of Xinjiang remains tightly controlled, while Xinjiang residents are punished for having unauthorised contact with people outside China.
“The genocide is still happening but it is just much more covert now,” Turdush said.
Despite the controversy surrounding the organised tours, both Turdush and Jazexhi believe that foreign journalists and officials should continue to visit Xinjiang as long as they challenge the narratives that are presented to them.
“They should go,” Jazexhi said.
“And they should speak the truth about what they see in Xinjiang and what they don’t see.”
与此同时，进出新疆的信息仍然受到严格控制，而新疆居民因未经授权与中国境外人员接触而受到惩罚。
“种族灭绝仍在发生，但现在更加隐蔽，”Turdush说。
尽管围绕有组织的旅行存在争议，但Turdush和Jazexhi都认为，外国记者和官员应该继续访问新疆，只要他们挑战向他们展示的故事。
“他们应该去，”Jazexhi说。
“他们应该说出他们在新疆看到的东西和他们没有看到的东西的真相。
