China is detaining Uyghur Muslims and other Turkic people in concentration camps, they are reportedly forced to denounce Islam, adopt atheism and pledge their allegiance to the Chinese state.
According to separationists, East Turkestan is the name of the region occupied by China and the homeland of Uyghurs or Uighurs; the Chinese state refers to the same region as Xinjiang, which is currently considered to be China’s largest province and the world’s largest open prison.
Uyghurs, Tibetans and people of various faiths and ethnic backgrounds have long sought to make people aware of their plight. Demonstrations in Switzerland, Pakistan, Indonesia, Canada, Turkey, United States, Netherlands… involved protesters actively shaming China’s Digital Dictatorship for its crackdown on minorities.
Millions of Uyghurs are detained in Chinese concentration camps; which is perhaps the most dreadful human rights crisis in the
world these days.
Dictators of China have struggled to control the region and its people
for long years; surveillance technology is the new weapon in their campaign.
The locals can rarely have a chance to communicate their fears
to foreign reporters (who rarely visit the province and try to investigate the
issue); armed guards and surveillance cameras are spread all over the region,
when Chinese flags are enforced on roof tops of several buildings, including
the dimes of the mosques.
The
Digital Dictatorship of China is moving forward to apply a “Social Score”
system in which almost every instance of a citizen’s life is recorded, and the
score is calculated accordingly. Low Social Scores may mean imposing
restrictions on citizens in terms of travel, banking services, transportation,
employment… or even detainment.
Miserable enough for the
majority of the Chinese citizens, this system involves enormous burden on
ethnic minorities in China. If you are a Hun Chinese, you are deemed
trustworthy and granted freedom of movement (as long as you do not oppose the
state or have trouble meeting any of your social, legal or financial
obligations), if you are a Uyghur, you start with an average score, with
restrictions imposed on travel and religious practices. If you are a Uyghur
male who breaks those restrictions, you are marked as untrustworthy and
detained in what the Chinese Communist Party calls “Education and Training
Centers”.
Xi Jinping, China’s
dictator and president for life targets Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang, government officials
and intelligence agencies’ representatives contact Uyghurs in other countries
such as the United States and demand that they provide information.
Escaping from China
does not necessarily imply that a Uyghur is out of the government’s reach;
almost every Uyghur has some friends and/or relatives held in custody, detained
in one of China’s concentration camps, being tortured, forced to renounce their
faith while singing anthems of the Chinese Communist Party, may or may not be
casually electrocuted or forced into restraint devices and stress positions for
hours… and most importantly, may or may not be dead.
Statesmen
around the world have reacted differently; the Pakistani Prime Minister claimed
to be ignorant about China’s crackdown on Turkic people, the Swedish government
granted refugee status to Uyghur Muslims facing prosecution in China, the US government
condemned the ethnic cleansing process handled by the Chinese state but did not
pressure China through economic or diplomatic actions, the Turkish government
had a similar attitude toward the problem, condemned the practices while maintaining
strong economic and diplomatic ties with China, similar to the strong ties
between China and countries like Saudi Arabia and Egypt… which none of their governmental
officials commented on the humanitarian crisis in East Turkistan (Xinjiang).
Check Muslim
Dictators Love China.
The Chinese government
brushes the criticism away by claiming that they do not detain Uyghurs in
concentration camps, and that they keep them in Educational centers for
vocational training. The supporters of the Chinese government try to dissuade
people around the world from supporting the Uyghur minority by claiming that
the whole issue is a piece of fiction created by western propaganda machines
for the political benefit of the US government that tries to defame a powerful
eastern state like that of China.
This comment
was posted on a recent video about China’s Digital Dictatorship
and the Uyghur Camps:
The same Ultra
Nationalist Nonsense that have been nurtured in almost all countries regardless
of their geographical location on the world map. The same rhetoric is used in
the United States itself to lead right wing nationalists to support Trump’s
Racism and Religious Intolerance.
Humans
should care about each other regardless of their nationality, ethnic background
and religious affiliations.
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