Leaked documents on Uighur detention camps in China - key revelations // China’s mass indoctrination camps evoke Cultural Revolution
This past weekend, The
New York Times’ China correspondents, Chris Buckley and Austin Ramzy,
published an
expose of over 400 internal Chinese government documents relating to Beijing’s
mass detentions of Uighurs, Kazakhs and other Muslim minorities in the
far-western region of Xinjiang. This trove of
documents includes 96 internal speeches by Chinese President and Communist
Party (CCP) Chairman Xi Jinping, as well as hundreds of speeches and directives
by other CCP officials on the strategies of surveillance and control
implemented in the region.
The documents
confirm previous
analyses by researchers on key aspects of the Chinese government’s
so-called “reeducation” system for Uighurs. They also reveal new details on
both the timing and rationale for the mass detentions and the extent of
opposition within the CCP to this approach. Most importantly,
however, the documents confirm Xi’s high level of personal involvement in
driving the campaign of repression in Xinjiang.... read more:
https://theconversation.com/leaked-documents-on-uighur-detention-camps-in-china-an-expert-explains-the-key-revelations-127221More posts on Uighurs
China’s mass indoctrination camps evoke Cultural Revolution
ALMATY, Kazakhstan
(AP) — Hour upon hour, day upon day, Omir Bekali and other detainees in far
western China’s new indoctrination camps had to disavow their Islamic beliefs,
criticize themselves and their loved ones and give thanks to the ruling
Communist Party.
When Bekali, a Kazakh
Muslim, refused to follow orders each day, he was forced to stand at a wall for
five hours at a time. A week later, he was sent to solitary confinement, where
he was deprived of food for 24 hours. After 20 days in the heavily guarded
camp, he wanted to kill himself....
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