CHINA WANTS WORLD TO STAY SILENT ON UIGHUR MUSLIM CAMPS.
The Uighurs are a mostly-Muslim ethnic minority largely based in Xinjiang, in western China. Many Uighurs call the region East Turkestan.
Under President Xi Jinping, China has installed a high-tech police state in the region and detained at least 2 million Uighurs in prisons and camps recent years. Former detainees have described physical and psychological torture in those centers. The Communist Party sees them as terrorists and calls them a threat to the country.
From last 3 years China detained more than 2 million Uyghur Muslim in the camp. They are been tortured and brainwashed by the China just because they belong from other religious group. But China calls it re-education camp but Uyghur Muslims say it’s unbearable brutality. China doesn’t want anyone to talk about it.
When students ask where their relatives are, officials were told to say, "They’re in a training school set up by the government to undergo collective systematic training, study and instruction."
Many Uighurs have been arrested or forced into detention on flimsy charges, such as texting people outside Xinjiang or setting their clocks two hours ahead of Beijing’s time zone to align with Xinjiang’s natural daylight schedule. The document also told officials to say that detainees "have very good conditions for studying and living there" and that tuition, food, and living arrangements are all free.
China has acknowledged the existence of some "re-education camps" but repeatedly denied any reports of torture.
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The Chinese government first denied these camps even existed. When confronted about them at the United Nations in August, officials claimed they were for the “assistance and education” of minor criminals. China’s state-run media has dismissed the reports of detention camps as Western media “baselessly criticizing China’s human rights.”
“Re-education camps” — or training camps, as the Chinese have called them — are perhaps the most sinister pillar of this de-extremification policy. Experts estimate as many as 2 million people have disappeared into these camps at some point, with about 1 million currently being held. But China has since stopped pretending that the camps aren’t real.
“Many trainees have said they were previously affected by extremist thought and had never participated in such kinds of arts and sports activities. Now they realize how colorful life can be,” Xinjiang governor Shorat Zakir reportedly told Xinhua, the state-run news agency.
The fact that the Chinese government is spreading misinformation makes it difficult to find out what’s really going on, but leaked documents and firsthand accounts from people detained at the camps have helped paint a disturbing picture of the camps. A source also told Radio Free Asia that a Chinese official had referred to the “re-education” process as similar to “spraying chemicals on the crops. That is why it is general re-education, not limited to a few people.” One new compound sits a half-hour drive south of Kashgar, a Uighur-dominated city near the border with Kyrgyzstan. It is surrounded by imposing walls topped with razor wire, with watchtowers at two corners.
A slogan painted on the wall reads: “All ethnic groups should be like the pods of a pomegranate, tightly wrapped together.”
Those detained in the camps are often accused of having “strong religious views” and “politically incorrect” ideas, according to Radio Free Asia. But Zenz, the researcher, said people are often detained for arbitrary reasons. “Many Uighur-majority regions have been ordered to detain a certain percentage of the adult population even if no fault was found. Detentions frequently occur for no discernible reasons,” Zenz said of the detainees.
Though Chinese government officials might try to paint these “re-education camps” as enriching experiences, a report published in October by the French news service Agence France-Presse undermined that narrative.
The report described camps where thousands of guards carrying spiked clubs, tear gas, and stun guns surveil the detainees, who are held in buildings surrounded by razor wire and infrared cameras. AFP journalists also reviewed public documents that showed government agencies overseeing the camps purchased 2,768 police batons, 550 electric cattle prods, 1,367 pairs of handcuffs, and 2,792 cans of pepper spray.
Inside these camps, detainees are reportedly subjected to bizarre exercises aimed at “brainwashing” them, as well as physical torture and deprivation.
Some snaps of protesters:
CHINA MUST BE HELD AN ACCOUNTABLE FOR IT’S TREATMENT TO UYGHUR MUSLIMS.
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