After brutal riots ten years ago that left 200 people dead, Shawudun Abdughupur and his wife understood they could have no future in China's Xinjiang region.
Then aged 33, the ethnic Uighur cameraman made a wrenching choice to flee their homeland and strike out for a better, safer life 12,500 kilometres (7,750 miles) away in New Zealand.
Relations between China's Han majority and Abdughupur's Muslim, Turkic-speaking brethren, have rarely been good.