Uighur in China
August 19th 2020
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I have written to the Irish Ambassador to China and to the Chinese Ambassador to Ireland in respect of the plight of the Uighir minority. (I have had a reply from the Irish Ambassador to China)
October 16th 2019
The war on slavery Listen to podcast here
The war on slavery Listen to podcast here
Wednesday 17 July 2019 5:30PM (view full episode) 4 episdodes in total
Today, despite being illegal everywhere, 40-45 million people live in slavery.
A quarter, children.
The largest number of slaves the world has ever seen.
And this week's episode of Four Corners on the persecution of the Uyghur Muslims in China, raised big questions about the use of slave labour in clothing sourced back to China. Several retailers in Australia are now checking their supply lines.
UK's former anti-slavery commissioner Kevin Hyland has been in Australia meeting political and business leaders and discussing this scourge.
The event, which was held at parliament house, was hosted by War on Slavery and moderated by co-founder Jane Jeffes.
Educating Uyghur Children in Xinjiang: Han Teacher’s Experience
Educating Uyghur Children in Xinjiang: Han Teacher’s Experience
Thousands of inner China teachers have been recruited to help with CCP’s “sinicization” efforts in Xinjiang. Many wanted to leave as soon as they arrived. More here
Thousands of inner China teachers have been recruited to help with CCP’s “sinicization” efforts in Xinjiang. Many wanted to leave as soon as they arrived. More here
A Sad World Refugee Day for Uyghurs in Thailand
A Sad World Refugee Day for Uyghurs in Thailand
06/19/2019 MASSIMO INTROVIGNE
Despite international protests, Thailand keeps Uyghur refugees in overcrowded detention camps and threatens to send them back to China.June 20 is World Refugee Day. It should be a day of hope for refugees throughout the world. Not for Uyghur Muslims who escaped from China and sought asylum in Thailand. They live in overcrowded, unsanitary detention centers, in fear of being deported back to China. Chinese pressures seem to weigh more on Thailand than international appeals in favor of the Uyghurs. More here
Despite international protests, Thailand keeps Uyghur refugees in overcrowded detention camps and threatens to send them back to China.June 20 is World Refugee Day. It should be a day of hope for refugees throughout the world. Not for Uyghur Muslims who escaped from China and sought asylum in Thailand. They live in overcrowded, unsanitary detention centers, in fear of being deported back to China. Chinese pressures seem to weigh more on Thailand than international appeals in favor of the Uyghurs. More here
Forced labour being used in China’s ‘re-education’ camps
Forced labour being used in China’s ‘re-education’ camps
Elements of gulag-style system resurrected as Beijing cracks down on ethnic minorities:
In early 2017, Chinese authorities began using extralegal detention against Uighur Muslims and other minorities, including Kazakhs, in internment camps. The UN estimates least 1m people are being held in such facilities and China has been condemned internationally.
More here
China’s Detention Camps for Muslims Turn to Forced Labor June 11th 2019
China’s Detention Camps for Muslims Turn to Forced Labor June 11th 2019
KASHGAR, China — Muslim inmates from internment camps in far western China hunched over sewing machines, in row after row. They were among hundreds of thousands who had been detained and spent month after month renouncing their religious convictions. Now the government was showing them on television as models of repentance, earning good pay — and political salvation — as factory workers.
China’s ruling Communist Party has said in a surge of upbeat propaganda that a sprawling network of camps in the Xinjiang region is providing job training and putting detainees on production lines for their own good, offering an escape from poverty, backwardness and the temptations of radical Islam. More here
To Live in Xinjiang Is Just Like Being Jailed
To Live in Xinjiang Is Just Like Being Jailed
From mandatory software on mobile phones to arrests for taking photos: visiting workers are prevented from sharing what is really happening in the Uyghur region. More here
Travelers leaving Xinjiang are also required to undergo thorough security control procedures (Right)
June 4th 2019
June 4th 2019
In China, they’re closing churches, jailing pastors – and even rewriting scripture
In China, they’re closing churches, jailing pastors – and even rewriting scripture
China’s Communist party is intensifying religious persecution as Christianity’s popularity grows. A new state translation of the Bible will establish a ‘correct understanding’ of the text
Lily Kuo in Chengdu
Sun 13 Jan 2019 08.00 GMTLast modified on Mon 14 Jan 2019 12.20 GMT
In late October, the pastor of one of China’s best-known underground churches asked this of his congregation: had they successfully spread the gospel throughout their city? “If tomorrow morning the Early Rain Covenant Church suddenly disappeared from the city of Chengdu, if each of us vanished into thin air, would this city be any different? Would anyone miss us?” said Wang Yi, leaning over his pulpit and pausing to let the question weigh on his audience. “I don’t know.” More here
China Uighurs: All you need to know on Muslim 'crackdown'
China Uighurs: All you need to know on Muslim 'crackdown'
Who are the Uighurs?
Who are the Uighurs?
They're ethnically Turkic Muslims, and there are about 11 million of them in Xinjiang in western China.
Where is Xinjiang?
Where is Xinjiang?
It's in the far west of China, and is the country's biggest region. As an autonomous area, it - in theory at least - has a degree of self-governance away from Beijing. Uighur Muslims make up under half the region's roughly 26 million people.
What's happening to people in Xinjiang?
What's happening to people in Xinjiang?
Human Rights Watch says Uighur people in particular are subject to intense surveillance and are made to give DNA and biometric samples. Those with relatives in 26 "sensitive" countries have reportedly been rounded up, and up to a million detained. Rights groups say people in camps are made to learn Mandarin Chinese and criticise or renounce their faith.
What has the BBC learned?
What has the BBC learned?
Former prisoners told us of physical as well as psychological torture in the camps. Entire families had disappeared, and we were told detainees were tortured physically and mentally. We also saw evidence of almost a complete surveillance state in Xinjiang.
What does China say?
What does China say?
It denies there are internment camps but says people in Xinjiang are receiving "vocational training". A senior official in Xinjiang says the region is facing the "three evil forces" of terrorism, extremism and separatism.
What is the world doing?
What is the world doing?
There's growing international criticism of China's treatment of Uighur Muslims but, as of yet, no country has taken any action beyond issuing critical statements
More here
There are tens of thousands of people [at the ‘re-education school’]... They have some problems with their thoughts
Xinjiang resident
Instead, we telephoned random numbers in the town.
What was this large complex with its 16 watchtowers that the authorities were so desperate to stop us filming?
“It's a re-education school,” one hotelier told us.
“Yes, that's a re-education school,” another shopkeeper agreed.
“There are tens of thousands of people there now. They have some problems with their thoughts.”
This giant facility would of course fit no objective definition of a school.
In Xinjiang “going to school” has come to take on a meaning all of its own.
Have a look at some of the BBC Satellite Photos here to see the re-education camps here
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