Uyghur Muslims facing genocide

Posted Feb. 9, 2022

By Huda Aden

Staff Reporter

Since 2017, China has been accused of committing crimes opposed to humanity and possibly genocide against the Uyghur population and other Muslim ethnic groups in the northwestern region of Xinjiang. China has denied all allegations of human rights abuses; they claim that it’s a system of “re-education” camps.

The detainees are forced to plead loyalty to the CCP and renounce Islam. Therefore, they are required to sing praise for communism and learn Mandarin. Many people have managed to escape reporting physical, mental, and sexual torture. Women have spoken up revealing that every night masked men wearing police uniforms would come to their cells taking them to a dark room where they would be tortured or raped. If a woman were to be pregnant, they would abort the baby, sterilize the woman and tie her tubes. Every 15 days, they would be injected with a “vaccine” that caused numbness and nausea. Many of the detainees have never been charged with crimes but are simply just put away for practicing their religion and have been labeled as extremists.

In Dec. 2020, a BCC news reporter saw about a million people being forced to pick cotton, “It should shock the conscience of humanity that massive numbers of people have been subjected to brainwash, torture, and other degrading treatment in internment camps, while millions more live in fear amid vast surveillance apparatus”, was said Ms. Callamard.

A Reuters journalist observing satellite imagery found that thirty-nine of the camps almost tripled in size between April 2017 and August 2018. They cover a total area roughly the size of 140 soccer fields. Human rights organizations, UN officials, and many foreign governments are urging China to stop the abuses. But Chinese officials maintain that what they called vocational training centers do not infringe on Ughyur’s human rights. They refuse to share information about the detention camps keeping journalists and foreign investigators from examining it but important documents were leaked in 2019 about details on how they launched and maintained the detention camps.

Compared to the victims during the Holocaust, the camps holding Uyghur Muslims hostage are beyond unimaginable. As a consequence of China diminishing the number of babies Uyghur Muslims are capable of having, the birthrate in Xinjiang dropped up to half in the last two years.