Uyghurs are
Turkic people of Islamic faith, Xinjiang is the homeland of the Uyghurs; China’s
largest province and the world’s largest open prison.
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.
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.
China is
using DNA to track Muslim Uyghurs in Xinjiang; the kind of a Digital
Dictatorship that was never tackled in a Hollywood movie; utilizing technology
to serve an agenda of racism, religious intolerance and ethnic cleansing.
According to human rights watch, the Chinese authorities in Xinjiang are
collecting DNA samples along with other Biometric data from all residents in
the Xinjiang province who are aged between 12 and 65 years; to improve accuracy
of ethnic targeting.
In every 100
meters or so you can see a police station implanted in Xinjiang, aided with enormous
amounts of CCTV cameras, with facial recognition technology; in order to enable
the state’s totalitarian control over the region’s residents. With this kind of
technology, they are most probably capable of counting each citizens breaths.
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”.
China is
facing “International Condemnation” for its mass detainment of ethnic Uyghurs,
and its crackdown on Tibetans and people of various faiths:
·
The Swedish government has granted refugee status to
China’s Uyghur Muslims.
·
Republicans and Democrats in the United States
condemned the Chinese government’s treatment of the situation, without using diplomatic
or economic tools to enforce changes.
·
The Turkish government also condemned the crackdown on
Uyghur Muslims in China, but did not actually do anything beyond the official
statement of condemnation; diplomatic ties and trade agreements with the
Chinese government are still steady.
·
Imran Khan, the Prime Minister of Pakistan was asked
in an interview if he would speak out against what is happening in China, and
he simply responded “If I had enough knowledge, I would speak about it; it is
not so much in the papers”.
·
Mohamed Bin Salman of Saudi Arabia claimed that the
Chinese government is entitled to handle its own internal issues.
·
The Egyptian government position is almost identical
to that of Saudi Arabia
Muslim
Dictators Love China; fun facts about Egypt, Turkey and Saudi Arabia:
The Turkish dictator along with the Muslim Brotherhood group
condemn the Egyptian and the Saudi dictators for violations of basic human
rights and tend to mention them as "Enemies of Islam".
The Saudi and the Egyptian Dictators on the other hand condemn
the suppression of basic civil liberties in Turkey, consider the Muslim
Brotherhood a terrorist group supported primarily by the dictators of Turkey
and Qatar (when they are not considered a terrorist group by most governments,
including these of the United States and the United Kingdom), and often refer
to them as "Enemies of Islam" as well.
Yet, these dictators can manage to agree on the love of Uncle
XI!
What is
clear is that there is a brutal repressive crackdown conducted by the Chinese
government in Xinjiang, and technology is at the center of it.
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