Article by Ahmed Shahir YILDIRIM
The Muslim Uyghurs in China are living a horrible life, under cruel tyranny of the ruling Communist Party. More than 3 million of them have been transferred to concentration camps to be “monitored” by the government.
The Uyghurs have stood up against the forces loyal to the government since 2009. They have come under increasing pressure to counter the horrific oppression perpetrated by the ruling Communist Party against the Muslim minority.
The Chinese government had previously denied the existence of the camps, but now claims that the camps are for training purposes and fully voluntary. Documents leaked to news networks, on the other hand, describe the monitoring of the camps as brutal prisons, with 24-hour surveillance and very strict disciplinary regulations.
The Chinese central government denied the fact that Uyghurs Turks were sent to labor camps, but images taken from the space show that there are at least 85 such camps.
Reports also show that prisoners are harshly treated and that they are abused physically and verbally. These camps are in a very bad and unsanitary conditions.
At least 10,000 children have been taken from their homes and placed in kindergarten prison camps. They are given nutritious and clothing; yet the system has been designed in a way that they no longer remember their culture and literature, even their religion.
Muslim Uyghur Turkish women are subjected to immoral acts of rape and forced marriages with Chinese. Forced abortions have been used as a method for controlling the increase of Muslims population in the country.
A report by the Uyghur Human Rights Project shows how, with the emergence of more evidence of detention camps, Beijing has turned to social media and government-controlled media to justify these camps as “voluntary vocational training centers”.
According to a new report, the Chinese government has launched a global propaganda campaign to repel media reports revealing the widespread arrest and repression of Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities in the Xinjiang region.
Ben Emmerson QC, a leading human rights lawyer and an adviser to the World Uighur Congress, said the camps were trying to change people’s identity.
“It is very difficult to view that as anything other than a mass brainwashing scheme designed and directed at an entire ethnic community.
“It’s a total transformation that is designed specifically to wipe the Muslim Uighurs of Xinjiang as a separate cultural group off the face of the Earth.”
Chinese government puts forward is “prevention” of a potential increase in Islamic fundamentalism.
They main reason, I believe is China’s fears that ethnic groups associated with a territory or culture might claim independence and eventually cause partition of China. Relatively, they pre-emptively suffocate potentiality of any separatist threat.
It is clear from this that there is a deep-rooted hatred of Islam among the socialist and communist regimes. While in the official history of the People’s Republic of China, places like Xinjiang, Tibet, Hong Kong and elsewhere have always been known as parts of a united China. Uyghurs, however, have historically been independent.
Uyghur diaspora have been striving to attract the attention of international community to the human rights violations of Chinese government.
Support, however, has been insufficient. The reason is clear: Chinese might and power deters international actors to take decisive actions.
