Uyghurs

A once nomadic tribe, the Uyghurs lived around the base of the Tianshan Mountains, their people travelled as far as Turkey. The word “Uyghur” literally means “united” or “allied”. Today the Uyghurs have become crushed between radicalised Islam and ethnocide internment into China's Laogai, thus alienating Uyghurs from each other, voiding succession of Uyghurian culture.

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I've been criticised for exposing the internment of North Koreans but the genocidal internment situation in North Korean “Kwanliso” is a blueprint, a forensic footprint development of China's ethnocidal internment of the Uyghur peoples. Globalisation of Communism affects us all. In hindsight of the predicament, as Communism grows, the history of other peoples is relevant to our history and the ethnic plight of White European peoples being wiped out by the Kalergi Plan.

Who are the Uyghur people?

Uyghur people, with a population of over 8 million, are easily one of the largest ethnic minority groups in China. Uyghur's reside in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, although there are substantial constituencies of them in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, and Turkey. They live primarily at the base of the Tianshan Mountains, with an estimated 80% of Xinjiang’s Uyghur population occupying territory surrounding the Tarim Basin.

Today, the Uyghur's predominantly follow the Sunni Islam (a Dönmeh controlled branch of Islam) and also subscribe to the mystical Islamic tradition of Sufism; they tend to distance themselves from other Muslim groups in China. Compared to China’s other ethnic minorities, the Uyghurs are profoundly physically diverse, ranging from people who look ethnically European or Middle Eastern to those who have a far more East Asian appearance.

Historically, in 734, the Turkish Khaganate (682–744), which had once ruled much of the area on China’s northern borders, started to fall apart and numerous Turkish subject tribes vied with one another to annex its valuable territory. After a lengthy period of warfare, the Uyghur people emerged victorious and established the Uyghur Khaganate (745-840). At its peak, its territory stretched from the Caspian Sea right through to Manchuria. It was at this time that the Uyghur people were influenced by Sogdian refugees and converted to Manichaeism.

Their situation at one of the crucial stops along the Silk Road meant that trade blossomed in the Uyghur Khaganate, and this trading culture is still evident by the many lively markets throughout Xinjiang. Unfortunately, after a brutal famine and a civil war, the empire was overrun by the Kyrgyz people and collapsed in 840. The Uyghur refugees were forced to flee and ended up settling in the area surrounding the Tarim Basin. They established the Kingdom of Qocho (856–1335) and converted to Buddhism.

Islam arrived into China sometime during the 7th century and was widely spread by the Kara-Khanid Khanate (840–1212), which was a Turkic dynasty that ruled an area in Central Asia known as Transoxiana. By the 17th century, the majority of Uyghurs had finally adopted Islam as their main religion. The region where they lived, which was once known as East Turkistan, didn’t become part of China proper until it was conquered by the Qing Dynasty (1644-1912) in 1864 and renamed Xinjiang or “New Territory”.

The Uyghurs are well-known for their rich culture and fascinating customs. Throughout Xinjiang, visitors are consistently dazzled by the bright colours of their traditional dress, the intrinsic aroma of freshly grilled food, the architecture of their local mosques, and the sprightly sounds of Uyghur musicians. In particular, a type of musical performance known as the 12 Muqams of the Uyghur people was designated by UNESCO as an Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2005, proving the impact that these people have had on local culture.

Interloping Ethnocide

In early 2021 China started the forced marriage game by advertising marriages to Uyghur women and girls to attract men into the Xinjiang or East Turkistan region of China, according to a report published in the Daily Citizen — Focus on the Family. “This is government-sponsored mass rape,” Rushan Abbas, head of Campaign for Uyghurs, was quoted as saying in an interview. As part of the Beijing government's “Pair Up and Become Family” campaign, Han Chinese members of the Communist Party go and live with Uyghur families for a period of time, The Daily Citizen reported.

“The Uyghur women are vulnerable to sexual abuse. Their husbands are sent to prisons or forced labour facilities or concentration camps.”.

Besides the forced marriages, the young Uyghur women are also reportedly sold to Chinese men for marriage. “While the Uyghur men are taken away to concentration camps, the Uyghur women are forced to marry Han men,” Abbas said while adding, “The girls nor their families, can reject a forced marriage, for fear of repercussions. If they say no, then they will be viewed as Islamic extremist who didn't want to marry non-Muslim Chinese. So, they cannot reject a proposal.”.

The Daily Citizen also reported that there is a guide about “How to win the heart of a Uyghur girl,” wherein the author suggests, “'coordinating' between these local work units and social security workers will produce 'strong backing and support' that cannot be defeated by 'religious extremism.'”.

“Uyghurs, who are both Muslim and Turkic do not accept intermarriage with Han Chinese because they wish to keep their ethnicity intact and pass on their Uyghur identity to the next generations.”.

Leaked reports of forced marriages and internment of men are currently being dwarfed by counter-narrative reports (launched by crypto-Communist groups such as Amnesty International) of forced sterilisation of imprisoned Uyghur women (with claim of “Cultural Genocide”).

Reports about China's promoting intermarriage between Uighurs and Han Chinese go back to as early as August 2014 when local authorities in Cherchen county of Xinjiang announced, “Incentive Measures Encouraging Uighur-Chinese Intermarriage.” The measures laid out a set of incentives by the government, including a 10,000 yuan ($1,450 US) cash reward annually for five years to the intermarried couples. The incentive package also included preferential treatment toward employment, housing, and free education for the couples, their parents, and offspring.

“Our advocacy of intermarriage is promoting positive energy, Only by promoting the establishment of a social structure and community environment in which all ethnic groups are embedded in each other … can we boost the great unity, ethnic fusion and development of all ethnic groups in Xinjiang, and finally realise our China dream of great rejuvenation of our Chinese nation”.

In a January article on the Chinese site NetEase, Mau Tao, a CCP official in Guma county of southern Xinjiang, said that “religious extremism” was behind the lack of ethnic unity between Uighurs and Han Chinese. He said that 2000 and 2010 national censuses showed that Xinjiang had the lowest rate of interethnic marriage among ethnic minorities. “The main obstacle to Uighur-Chinese intermarriage is that the infiltration of religious extremism has changed the social environment, and that the ‘three forces’ have destroyed ethnic relations,” Tao said, referring to Beijing’s claim that Xinjiang is home to “three forces of evil,” namely separatism, terrorism and extremism.

Home to more than 13 million Muslims such as Uighur, Kazakh and other ethnic groups, Xinjiang has witnessed a dramatic increase in Chinese population, from just more than 200,000 in 1949, when the CCP’s Liberation Army took over the region, to almost 9 million in recent years. Beijing in the past has launched similar intermarriage campaigns, targeting other ethnoreligious minorities in the country. The government announced such measures in Tibet in 2010 leading Tibetans to denounce the practice as “Gene Washing”.

Vanessa Frangville, a China studies professor at the University Libre of Brussels, said China’s intermarriage is a part of “ethnic blending theory” that has been developed by Hu Angang and Hu Lianhe from Tsinghua University since early 2000s. The theory calls for measures such as co-residence, intermarriages and mixed-ethnic schooling as a way to enforce a more united Chinese identity.

Blinkered claims contrary to Communist China ceasing its “one child per parent” United Nations inspired programs more than a decade ago; this disastrous program of mass sterilisation and forced abortion left Chinese males outnumbering Chinese females 7-1.

This CCP policy is also an attempt to solve the problem of the massive surplus of Chinese men, compared to the number of women. It appears they are advertising Uighur women as a solution to find Chinese men wives.

United Nations have also previously backed up China's claim of Uyghurian Terrorism, United Nations have also been pushing “Population Replacement”, diluting (with African and Syrian immigrants) a declining indigenous White people of Europe for decades.

More than three-quarters of the names on a recently leaked Chinese government list of some 10,000 “suspected terrorists” are ethnic Uyghurs, while the document includes hundreds of minors and the elderly, providing rare insight into how Beijing characterises threats it has used to lock up more than a million people. The Chinese government has been using artificial intelligence surveillance technology to track and monitor Muslim minorities going about their daily lives in Xinjiang. An engineer who worked on the smart CCTV system claimed that facial recognition could label someone as “normal,” “of concern” or “dangerous,” potentially leading to their arrest.

In 2020, a group of Australian hackers obtained the list, which was culled from more than 1 million surveillance records compiled by the Shanghai Public Security Bureau “Technology Division” and, after vetting it for authenticity, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) published it last month. The PSB unit is responsible for building databases and “image, wireless, and wired communication systems,” according to ABC, and experts say it most likely determines who should be placed on watchlists and further investigated as potential threats to the state.

Most of the entries on the document, which RFA’s Uyghur Service has obtained a copy of and refers to as the “Shanghai List,” include dates of birth, places of residence, ID numbers, ethnicity, and gender of the individuals, nearly all of whom are referred to as “suspected terrorists,” although some are identified as having “created disturbances.” More than 7,600 of the people listed on the document are ethnic Uyghurs, while the rest are mostly Kazakh and Kyrgyz, fellow Turkic Muslims.

The list, which analysts believe was compiled in 2018 at the latest, contains entries for individuals from all walks of life in Uyghur society, including ordinary citizens, children as young as five and six years old, senior citizens in their 80s, and Uyghurs who have lived and travelled abroad, as well as Uyghurs in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) who have never been abroad before. View: list examples.

More than 400 minors are identified on the list as “terrorist suspects,” 162 of whom are under the age of five. The document says that children as young as five have been “met and examined” by security personnel. The Shanghai List gives no evidence or explanation as to why the listed individuals are suspected of terrorism, although many of the adults appear to be individuals of social influence and successful in their various fields of work, or have been vocal about ongoing abuses in the XUAR in the diaspora.

The list also contains entries for the former heads of universities in the XUAR, including Tashpolat Teyip, Halmurat Ghopur, Azad Sultan, and Wali Barat; writers, poets, and publishers including Yasin Zilal and Abdurahman Abay; renowned musicians and artists such as Adil Mijit, Hurshide Turdi, Abdurahman Ayup, Jurat Wayit, and Gulzar; and even children named Atilla Tursun and Akida, who were born in 2014 and are at most seven years old.

Xinjiang Aid

The Chinese government has facilitated the mass transfer of Uyghur and other ethnic minority citizens from the far west region of Xinjiang to factories across the country through labour transfer programs under a central government policy known as “Xinjiang Aid”. Under conditions that strongly suggest forced labour, Uyghurs are working in factories that are in the supply chains of at least 82 well-known global brands in the technology, clothing and automotive sectors, including Apple , BMW, Gap, Huawei, Nike, Samsung, Sony and Volkswagen.

Inhumane Corporations invest in Communist Ethnocide at less cost to them, greater cost to humanity:

• A factory in eastern China that manufactures shoes for US company Nike is equipped with watchtowers, barbed-wire fences and police guard boxes.
• An eastern province factory claiming to supply sportswear multinationals Adidas and Fila.
• Several Chinese factories making components for Apple or their suppliers using Uyghur labour.

In all, ASPI’s research has identified 82 foreign and Chinese companies potentially directly or indirectly benefiting from the use of Uyghur workers outside Xinjiang through abusive labour transfer programs as recently as 2019:

Abercrombie & Fitch • Acer • Adidas • Alstom • Amazon • Apple • ASUS • BAIC Motor • Bestway • BMW • Bombardier • Bosch • BYD • Calvin Klein • Candy • Carter’s • Cerruti 1881 • Changan Automobile • Cisco • CRRC • Dell • Electrolux • Fila • Founder Group • GAC Group (automobiles) • Gap • Geely Auto • General Motors • Google • Goertek • H&M • Haier • Hart Schaffner Marx • Hisense • Hitachi • HP • HTC • Huawei • iFlyTek • Jack & Jones • Jaguar • Japan Display Inc. • L.L.Bean • Lacoste • Land Rover • Lenovo • LG • Li-Ning • Mayor • Meizu • Mercedes-Benz • MG • Microsoft • Mitsubishi • Mitsumi • Nike • Nintendo • Nokia • Oculus • Oppo • Panasonic • Polo Ralph Lauren • Puma • SAIC Motor • Samsung • SGMW • Sharp • Siemens • Skechers • Sony • TDK • Tommy Hilfiger • Toshiba • Tsinghua Tongfang • Uniqlo • Victoria’s Secret • Vivo • Volkswagen • Xiaomi • Zara • Zegna • ZTE.

Some brands are linked with multiple factories. The data is based on published supplier lists, media reports, and the factories’ claimed suppliers

80,000 Uyghurs were transferred out of Xinjiang to work in factories across China between 2017 and 2019, and some of them were sent directly from detention camps.

In factories far away from home, they typically live in segregated dormitories, undergo organised Mandarin and ideological training outside working hours, are subject to constant surveillance, and are forbidden from participating in religious observances. Numerous sources, including government documents, show that transferred workers are assigned minders and have limited freedom of movement. The Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) has identified 27 factories in nine Chinese provinces that are using Uyghur labour transferred from Xinjiang since 2017.

A further 54 companies are implicated in what could be forced labour schemes within Xinjiang itself (see appendix)—some of which overlap with the 82 companies linked to forced Uyghur labour outside of Xinjiang. It is important to note that not all companies have the same levels of exposure to Uyghur forced labour. Some finished products are directly manufactured by these workers, while others pass through complicated supply chains.

Concentration Camps

Since 2017, more than a million Uyghurs and members of other Turkic Muslim minorities have disappeared into a vast network of ‘re-education camps’ in the far west region of Xinjiang, in what some experts call a systematic, government-led program of cultural genocide. Inside the camps, detainees are subjected to political indoctrination, forced to renounce their religion and culture and, in some instances, reportedly subjected to torture. For combating ‘religious extremism’, Chinese authorities have been actively remoulding the Muslim population in the image of China’s Han ethnic majority.

Coordinates: 39°27'9.59"N, 76°6'34.24"E

The concentration camps are highly securitized facilities with features such as significant fencing to heavily restrict the movement of individuals, consistent coverage by watchtowers, and strategic barricades with only small numbers of entry points. Often the perimeter around these camps is multi-layered and consists of large walls with tall razor-wire fencing on both the inside and outside.

Coordinates: 39°21'27.64"N, 76°3'2.39"E

The speed with which China has built its sprawling network of indoctrination centres in Xinjiang is reminiscent of Beijing’s efforts in the South China Sea. Similar to the pace with which it has created new ‘islands’ where none existed before, the Chinese state has changed the facts on the ground in Xinjiang so dramatically that it has allowed little time for other countries to meaningfully react.

The largest camp documented in the region, Dabancheng, sits just outside the regional capital of Urumqi. New construction there over the course of 2019 stretched for more than a kilometre — and in total it now has nearly 100 buildings. A new detention centre in the much smaller historic Silk Road city of Kashgar, opened as recently as January this year, has 13 five-storey residential buildings spread over 25 hectares (60 acres), surrounded by a 14-metre-high wall and watch-towers.

Camps into four different categories, reflecting levels of fortification and controls on inmates. About half of the 60 facilities which have recently been expanded are higher security, suggesting a shift in the nature of the central government campaign against minorities in Xinjiang. The apparent shift in focus to higher security detention centres fits with reports and survivor testimony that “a significant number of detainees that have not shown satisfactory progress in political indoctrination camps have been transferred to higher security facilities, which expanded to accommodate them”.

Pictures of discovered concentration camps (click links to open):

The detention of Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities has allegedly left many children without their parents. The Chinese government has allegedly held these children at a variety of institutions and schools colloquially known as “boarding schools,” although not all are residential institutions, that serve as de facto orphanages. In September 2018, the Associated Press reported that thousands of boarding schools were being built. According to the Chinese Department of Education, children as young as eight are enrolled in these schools.

In 2019, children of detained parents in boarding schools had been forced to learn Mandarin Chinese and prevented from exercising their religion. Human Rights Watch claimed that the children detained at child welfare facilities and boarding schools were held without parental consent or access. In December 2019, The New York Times reported that approximately 497,000 elementary and junior high school students were enrolled in these boarding schools. They also reported that students are only allowed to see family members once every two weeks and that they were forbidden from speaking the Uyghur language.

Witnesses

Mihrigul Tursun, a Uyghur woman detained in China, after escaping one of these camps, talked of beatings and torture. After moving to Egypt, she travelled to China in 2015 to spend time with her family and was immediately detained and separated from her infant children. When Tursun was released three months later, one of the triplets had died and the other two had developed health problems. Tursun said the children had been operated on. She was arrested for the second time about two years later. Several months later, she was detained the third time and spent three months in a cramped prison cell with 60 other women, having to sleep in turns, use the toilet in front of security cameras and sing songs praising the Chinese Communist Party.

According to detainees, they were also forced to drink alcohol and eat pork, which are forbidden in Islam. Some reportedly received unknown medicines, while others attempted suicide. There have also been deaths reported due to unspecified causes. Detainees have alleged widespread sexual abuse, including forced abortions, forced use of contraceptive devices and compulsory sterilisation.

Tursun said she and other inmates were forced to take unknown medication, including pills that made them faint and a white liquid that caused bleeding in some women and loss of menstruation in others. Tursun said nine women from her cell died during her three months there. One day, Tursun recalled, she was led into a room and placed in a high chair, and her legs and arms were locked in place. “The authorities put a helmet-like thing on my head, and each time I was electrocuted, my whole body would shake violently, and I would feel the pain in my veins,” Tursun said in a statement read by a translator. “I don't remember the rest. White foam came out of my mouth, and I began to lose consciousness,” Tursun said. “The last word I heard them saying is that you being a Uyghur is a crime.”.

Former inmates claim that they are required to learn to sing the national anthem of China and communist songs. Punishments, like being placed in handcuffs for hours, waterboarding, or being strapped to “tiger chair” (a metal contraption) for long periods of time, are allegedly used on those who fail to follow.

Anar Sabit, a cooperative inmate who had a relatively minor offence of foreign travel, described her confinement in the women's section as prison-like and marked by bureaucratic rigidity. She described the town as resembling an “open air prison” due to the careful monitoring by cameras, sensors, police, and the neighbourhood residential committee, and that she feels shunned by almost all friends and family and worries that she will endanger anyone who helps her.

Bakitali Nur, 47, a native of Khorgos, Xinjiang on the Sino-Kazakh border, was arrested because authorities were suspicious of his frequent trips abroad. He reported spending a year in a cell with seven other prisoners. The prisoners sat on stools seventeen hours a day, were not allowed to talk or move, and were under constant surveillance. Movement carried the punishment of being put into stress positions for hours. After release, he was forced to make daily self-criticisms, report on his plans and work for negligible payment in government factories. In May 2019, he escaped to Kazakhstan.

Ghalipjan, a 35-year-old Uyghur man from Shanshan/Pichan County who was married and had a five-year-old son, died in a re-education camp on 21 August 2018. Authorities reported his death was due to heart attack, but the head of the Ayagh neighborhood committee said that he was beaten to death by a police officer. His family was not allowed to carry out Islamic funeral rites.

Opposition

Protests against Uyghurian Ethnocide have occurred all over the world.

Imran Ahmad Khan MP, Member of Parliament for Wakefield.

Conservative MP Alicia Kearns has called out the Chinese Communist Party for carrying out “genocide” against the minority Uyghur population. Discussing the human rights abuses of Xi Jinping's regime on GB News, the Foreign Affairs Committee member highlighted the need to protect Uyghur refugees in the UK from the “tentacles” of the CCP alongside a range of tough measures aimed at placing pressure on China.

“The challenge that the whole world has been facing is what do you do when a great power is committing a genocide. This isn't something we have seen in my lifetime, and it is a real challenge for governments. So, this report looks at everything from cultural protection, heritage protection through to import bans through to sanctions. Through to getting things through international judicial courts all the way through to asylum and making sure we are protecting Uyghurs also in the UK.”.

Note: Again we do not hear the plight of the Uyghurs as "Ethnocide" but referred to as “Cultural” as miscegenation and intermarriage is globalised Communism's agenda; enacted as a silent Cold War upon the west, destruction of the Nuclear family, lowering populations is a prerequisite to this agenda.

Research Credits:

Australian Strategic Policy Institute