HEY, SINCE WE’RE AT THIS TOPIC, CAN YOU GUYS PLEASE FINALLY PAY ATTENTION TO WHAT CHINA IS DOING TO UYGHURS.
China is planning on using surveillance in this area to soon punish jaywalkers, but China has already created a surveillance state in “Xinjiang” (occupied East Turkestan) to spy on Uyghurs and find “reasons” to detain them in camps where Chinese officials torture and brainwash them in an attempt to eradicate Uyghur culture and sinicize them.. and if those things don’t work, they kill them and discard their bodies into unmarked graves.
Chen Quanguo, the man who was also responsible for locking down Tibet (a region that also used to be Central Asia just like “Xinjiang”, and which borders on the Uyghur region) is taking levels of mass control to a new extreme. “Xinjiang” is being called the most heavily surveillanced police state in the world. There are surveillance cameras (some equipped with artificial intelligence) and facial recognition software, who even alert authorities if Uyghurs are walking “too fast”, are parked in the wrong spot or have strayed more then a couple meters from their homes and armored cars, tanks, and police officers patrolling everywhere. You can’t even step outside to go the grocery store without having to go through multiple security checks, police body checking you and even inspecting your phone. (x, x, x)
Guess what, China is also collecting biometric data (blood, fingerprints, iris scans, DNA,..) from Uyghurs under the fasade of a medical checkup that all Uyghurs are forced to get. THEY ARE STEALING UYGHURS’ BIOMETRIC DATA AND MANY UYGHURS DO NOT EVEN KNOW THAT THIS IS WHAT THE GOVERNMENT PROVIDED “MEDICAL CHECKUP” IS USED FOR. (x, x, x, x)
Uyghurs have NO freedom whatsoever in “Xinjiang”. The Chinese government sent letters to citizens of the region asking various questions like, “Are you Uyghur?”, “Do you have a job”, “Are you religious?”, etc. These letters were then collected, checked, and based on the score you received you were categorized as a “safe” or “unsafe person” and received different levels of freedom. Most Uyghurs however just ended up being detained in camps or thrown in prison based on their answers and even such things as showing interest in travelling abroad. (x, x, x)
Statistically speaking, in villages with a population of 2.000 people, usually about 400 to 500 of Uyghurs get detained in these camps – Some of them, for life – where 20 to 30 people are forced to share one 15 square meter room. (x)
But that’s not all! China has also forced Uyghurs to join a program that gives them a “Han Chinese relative” (another attempt to
sinicize
them), and those who refused to join the program were fired from their jobs, or if they worked as farmers, had their land taken away. Uyghurs are also being told to marry Han Chinese, and some are even forced to. (x, x, x, x)
China has also sent officials to live in Uyghur houses so they can actively make sure that Uyghurs are not engaging in cultural things and are following the rules of the ruling communistist party. (x, x)
That’s still not all though! China is also harvesting organs of Uyghur prisoners, Chinese agents are spying on and harassing Uyghurs overseas (Canada, America, Australia, etc.) and are threatening their family members stuck in “Xinjiang”, Uyghurs living overseas have been ordered by China (last year already. (Why? We don’t know!)) to return to their hometowns, but since many refused to because they knew if they complied they will get tortured and maybe even killed, China has started working together with various countries and has begun abducting and deporting Uyghurs back to China. (x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x) The list goes on. If I were to list all the things that I know China is doing we would be sitting there till tomorrow. And if I were to list all the things China is doing that we don’t even know of yet, we would probably be sitting here until next year.
You might be asking yourself why China is doing that. It’s because Uyghurs are Central Asians and a part of the Turkic ethnic group. (Uyghurs are also primarily Muslim, however since China’s treatment of Chinese Muslims and other East Asian Muslims (ex: Hui Muslims) varies greatly from their treatment of Uyghurs, it is very clear that the reason behind this is not [primarily] Islamophobia but Racism.)
Uyghurs don’t get a fair trial either. The courts work with the party and tell the lawyers appointed to Uyghurs to do the same. They always end up picking the hardest punishment imaginable, like in the recent case where a 16 year old Uyghur child was sentenced to 13 years in prison for visiting Turkey. (x, x) Courts often even re-trial cases of Uyghurs who have already been found “guilty” and have done their time and send them back to prison. (x)
This article above is speaking of what China plans on doing and you are all worried about it, but “Xinjiang” is already a surveillance state and the ethnic cleansing of Uyghurs has been well underway for quiet some time now.
(You can find more sources/info on Twitter from Uyghur Cause & World Uyghur Congress.)
I left out a lot of the things that China is doing because if I listed everything it would be too long and nobody would read it all anyway, but I would like to add one thing that I can’t believe slipped my mind to begin with:
China plans on building a “Great Wall” around “Xinjiang” (occupied East Turkestan).
“Efforts are on to make the border security stricter and for constructing a great wall of steel in the Xinjiang province. Precautions will be taken that there are no gaps in the security on the border of the province. It will be ensured that the important areas of the province are fully secure. Use of technology will be increased along the border and the roads and infrastructure will be developed” clarified Xinjiang Governor, Shohrat Zakir.
CHINA WANTS TO BUILD THIS WALL NOT ONLY TO CUT THE UYGHUR REGION OFF FROM THE REST OF CHINA, BUT TO CUT IT OFF FROM THE REST OF THE WORLD. It is already complicated enough to get information on what is happening in “Xinjiang” because China is actively trying to keep stories from getting out, and now imagine how much harder it would be if China built that wall around the region.
China wants to build this wall so that no Uyghur will be able to escape, so that they can put every single one of them through ethnic cleansing, away from the eyes of the world and without any interference of human rights groups trying to save them.
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