A few days ago, UN human rights experts received a large number of reliable reports that at least 1 million Uyghurs were detained in Xinjiang, and 2 million people were forced to brainwash. In order to complete higher-level tasks, lower-level officials expanded the scope of arrest on a large scale
Source: United Nations experts say China has detained one million Uighurs in Xinjiang
Original English: U.N. Panel Confronts China Over Reports That It Holds a Million Uighurs in Camps
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Geneva-On Friday, UN human rights experts expressed concern about what they called a large number of credible reports, which stated that China has detained 1 million or more Uyghurs in the western Xinjiang region and forced as many as 2 million to receive re-education. And instilling brainwashing.
In the name of combating religious extremism, China has turned Xinjiang into "something similar to a large-scale detention camp, shrouded in secrets, and an area without rights." Guy Mack, member of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination Gay McDougall said at the opening ceremony of the two-day Geneva China Policy Review Conference.
A description from the region pointed out that Muslims are “recognized as enemies of the country simply because of their ethnic and religious identity.” McDougall quoted reports from activists and scholars saying that many people have disappeared, even the most common religious activities. Become a reason for punishment.
McDougall raised questions about the fate of Uyghur students returning to Xinjiang from overseas. She said that more than 100 people were missing, some were detained, and others died during detention.
Yu Jianhua, the Permanent Representative of China to the United Nations Office in Geneva, praised China’s ethnic minority policy in his opening speech on Friday, saying that it aims to promote unity and harmony and that the region’s economic development has cost 20 million people in the past five years. People out of poverty.
Yu Jianhua led a delegation of 48 senior officials. He did not respond to the committee’s questions, but he was scheduled to speak when the meeting resumed on Monday morning.
Chinese officials have stated that strengthening security measures and restricting the religious activities of Uyghurs (mainly Sunni Muslims) are to prevent violence and anti-state incidents in the Uyghur region. They attribute these incidents to separatism, terrorism and religious extremism. Ism.
Supporters of the Uyghur ethnic group say that strict security measures have contributed to resentment.
Friday’s UN meeting was the first time that China was asked to publicly answer questions about its suppression of Xinjiang Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities. At the same time, the international community has issued increasingly severe warnings about the scope and strength of such measures.
"We are really discussing the humanitarian crisis," said Adrian Zenz, an expert in Xinjiang who lectured at the European School of Culture and Theology in Berlin. "This is a very targeted political re-education program aimed at changing the core identity and belief system of the entire person. It is unprecedented in scale."
Since the violence against Han people in Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang, in 2009 and the Uyghur Muslim attack on Beijing in 2013, Beijing has strengthened its control and surveillance of Xinjiang’s population. The Han nationality is the main ethnic group in China.
However, since Chen Quanguo became secretary of the Xinjiang Party Committee in August 2016 and promulgated the “de-radicalization” regulations in early 2017, the authorities have greatly increased the scale and degree of suppression.
China Human Rights Defenders, a Hong Kong-based advocacy group, said in a report based on official data last week that in 2017, more than one-fifth of arrests in China occurred in Xinjiang. The 11 million people in this area account for less than 2% of China's total population.
Scholars and activists estimate that 1 million people are currently being held in hundreds of re-education camps across Xinjiang, and another 2 million people are receiving some form of compulsive re-education or indoctrination.
"There is no legal basis for detaining people like this," observes Sophie Richardson, the director of Human Rights Watch's China Department. "No arrest warrant, no crime, no lawyer, no contact with family members, no idea when you can go out, no guilt."
Chen Quanguo served as party secretary in Tibet for 10 years. In Xinjiang, he nearly doubled the stability maintenance budget in the region, accelerated the recruitment of police, built more police stations, and allowed Han cadres to live in Uyghur homes. And equipped with a monitor and face recognition technology.
Dr. Zheng Guoen estimates that the Chinese authorities have built 1,000 to 1,200 detention camps. There are also reports that the authorities have accelerated the pace of construction of orphanages to house children who have been detained.
The specific criteria for detention are not yet known. Dr. Zheng Guoen pointed out that in order to achieve the official quota, officials have detained ordinary people. They target specific groups, including people who have connections with foreign countries, or people who have been abroad, and have received calls from overseas. People and people involved in religious activities.
Dr. Zheng Guoen also said that the crackdown was not limited to Uyghurs, but also extended to other ethnic groups that are mainly Muslims, including Kazakhs, Kirgiz, or Hui, despite the fact that they have no connection with any anti-state behavior.
"Abuse and torture are common in re-education camps, and reports of deaths in custody due to torture have also become common," overseas Chinese democracy activists said in an open letter on Friday, calling on the UN to investigate and the U.S. Great pressure on Chinese leaders.