How China corralled 1 million people into concentration camps
CHINA CAN no longer credibly claim the concentration camps in Xinjiang province are vocational skills training centers. The facilities, where more than 1 million Uighurs, Kazakhs and other predominantly Muslim minorities have been held over the last two years, are indoctrination camps aimed at stripping these peoples of their traditions, culture and language. New evidence has come to light that exposes, in granular detail, how detainees were selected and monitored, not for vocational skills, but rather because they were Muslims and behaved in ways that China’s leaders thought objectionable.
For example: They wanted to go on a religious pilgrimage. They frequently worshiped at a mosque. They had friends whom the authorities had designated as suspicious. They maintained what the government considered a “heavy religious environment” at home, or they wore a beard, or attended a funeral, or obtained a passport, or had more than one child. All of these might be considered normal activity in an open society, but in China’s police state they were cause for punishment.
For several years, China has been carrying out a cultural genocide, not mass killing of people but a mass extermination of their ideas and beliefs. In the camps, detainees are bombarded with the language and traditions of the country’s majority Han Chinese. China has said the camps were necessary to offset extremism and separatism in Xinjiang, scenes of periodic unrest and Chinese crackdowns over the years.
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