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By Amanda Palmera | July 30, 2020
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Feroza Aziz is not your typical influencer. The 17-year-old Muslim garnered over 1.5 million views on one of her videos on TikTok, a Chinese-owned social media app, which starts with the teen holding her eyelash curler to her face.
At first glance, Aziz seems to be handing out beauty tips to her audience, but the video soon takes a radical turn when she asked her viewers to help raise awareness for what she claims is “another Holocaust.”
The viral video was created by Aziz to show how the Chinese government has been prosecuting the Uighurs, a Muslim minority within China. The video has since been taken down and Aziz has been banned from posting new content on her account.
Aziz states in the TikTok video, “They’re getting concentration camps,” now officially called Reeducation Camps, “detaining innocent Muslims, separating them from their families, raping them, and forcing them to eat pork, drink, and convert to another religion if they don’t want to get murdered—this is another Holocaust, yet no one is talking about it.”
She explains how China has denied most of the accusations as “fake news.” The Chinese government has been trying to make the situation look like a simple vocational training, when, in reality, all the evidence proves otherwise, according to Aziz.
Not much about the Chinese concentration camps is known and little is publicized. However, there is some information on the internet that proves that what the Chinese are doing is true despite their denials.
Uighurs are forced to leave their mosques after the Chinese government ordered its closure. (Source: Aljazeera).
A recent document from the concentration camp has been leaked to the New York Times, who entitled the story as “The Xinjiang Papers.” It states, “Inmates are cut off from their family and are held behind to undergo ideological transformation.”
The concentration camps are disturbingly similar to that of World War II, where the Jews were mercilessly persecuted because of their beliefs and traditions. Likewise, Chinese officials physically and mentally control the Uighurs by brainwashing and torturing them through sensory deprivation.
These camps are reportedly located at Xinjiang, an autonomous region in Western China that borders eight countries, including Pakistan, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan. These camps are said to “rid” of the region’s Islamic beliefs through a system of ethnic cleansing and inhumane indoctrination programs.
In response to these leaked documents, the UK urges the Chinese government to allow United Nations observers access into the camps. However, China refuses to compromise. Its government claims that Uighurs are a terrorist threat to the country because of their alleged extremist and separatist views.
Currently, more and more people around the world are demanding transparency and access for diplomats and journalists to Xinjiang. Influencers like Aziz do their best to bring awareness through political videos on social media platforms. Aziz herself has uploaded a sequel to her “eyelash curling tutorial,” which was centered on the importance of uncovering the truth.
“Generations before us didn’t have the same power as we do now, and that’s technology,” Aziz says in the video. “It doesn’t matter if we’re not 18 or of age to vote, we have our voices,” she urges. “Our voices can do so much.”
Amanda Palmera | aapalmera@ssc.edu.ph
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