That China controls in Xinjiang and the Muslim population and systematically re-educates, is now well documented. A new Video fired up the discussion to the right international relations with Beijing.
A few days ago on the Internet leaked, but already in August of 2018, captured Video evidence of the Repression of the Muslim-majority population by the Chinese authorities in the Autonomous Region of Xinjiang. To see the hundreds of prisoners who are sitting blindfolded next to a stationary train on the ground and later by a massive contingent of Chinese security forces to be dissipated are. The authenticity of this video has now been confirmed by several experts, including Nathan Ruser, from the Australian Strategic Policy Institute in Canberra.
On human rights issues, a specialized member of Parliament, Margarete Bause said to DW: “From the facts, the Video is nothing New, but of the pictorial documentation, of course. You can’t wipe so easily to the page, such as long written reports.” The Green party politician expects “that the Federal government is also the people addressed violations of the rights of the Uighurs in talks with Beijing even more”. Also she is holding a “procedure at the UN and especially the EU-level appropriate”; so should the Federal government in the European Council for individual sanctions against responsible persons.
A reminder to UN Secretary General
Just recently the UN had to defend herself-Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, against the indirect accusation that he come to China on the subject of Uighurs consistently enough. Several NGOs had urged Guterres, in a letter to one of the “most pressing human rights of our time” questions. He did not believe that “somebody had made consistent and clear to the Chinese to do this,” as he himself said Guterres on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly.
On the question of whether this also includes the requirement for closure of the internment camp belong, remained Guterres a concrete answer, however guilty. The NGOs, including Amnesty International, urge in your letter to Guterres, all counter decided, what better way to give the Chinese representation of credibility, that the “illegal was the internment of over a Million Uighurs and other Muslims as a necessary measure against terrorism”.
The use of the term “East Turkistan” as it is here in Turkey is for Beijing a provocation
Resistance against China’s rule
The ethnic conflict in the extreme West of China goes back a long way. Even before the founding of the people’s Republic of China in 1949, the Chinese rulers saw the resistance of the local population in Xinjiang face. In the meantime, there was a short-lived Autonomous State formations, under the name of East Turkestan. The local Turkic peoples, mainly Uighurs, belong culturally to Central Asia and the Middle East, what to Believe, among other things, in the Islamic and the Arabic-based writing shows. The influx of Han Chinese, who now make up about 40 percent of the approximately 24 million inhabitants of the vast territory has contributed to the tension – similar to that in neighbouring Tibet.
After bloody riots in the capital Urumqi in 2009, in which around 200 people, mostly Han Chinese, were killed, more stringent Beijing, the security and surveillance measures in Xinjiang solid. Among other attacks, the go to the account of Uighur extremists, in particular, victims of a knife attack at the train station of Kunming in March 2014, with 31 deaths.
The Governor of the Autonomous Region of Xinjiang, Shorat Zakir (r), with the actual Power operative party Secretary Chen Quanguo
The whole nation as a potential terrorist, branded table
In the view of many observers, has changed China’s policy in Xinjiang, however, since about 2016: Went to defensive measures against the “three Evils” of terrorism, fundamentalism, separatism – in terms of foreign policy in the framework of the Shanghai organization for cooperation (SOC) – the re-education of the entire Uyghur population is now on the program. Beijing sees potentially all Uighurs as prone to extremist and separatist ideas. Therefore, any Uighur who is interested in a “conspicuous manner” for his language, Religion or other cultural traditions, or engaged, is a potential candidate for a re-education camp. Their Central role within the campaign was in the spring of 2018 by the detailed research of the social scientist Adrian Zenz, apparently.
The German researchers Adrian Zenz has documented the System of the camp in Xinjiang
After the end of the camp-the more unfree
More than a Million Uighurs are to be estimated, the Zenz‘ research and other information from the Region in these Camps are located. The dwell time is different, they can apparently be up to several years, such as the Xinjiang connoisseur Rian Thum in an essay for “Foreign Policy” writes. “Again and again, inmates are released into the lack of freedom, in the house arrest or in various stages of forced labour,” said Zenz. Special monitoring would be arranged in measures. Those in house arrest and must report to often in the morning and in the evening at the police station. Those in forced labour continue to be subject to strong limitations and can only rarely take off to visit their families or children.”
A so-called vocational training centre in Xinjiang from the outside
New legal basis
Due to the growing international criticism of the construction of a detention system in Xinjiang – China Beijing defended initially flatly denied – for the first time in August 2018 in front of the UN Committee against racial discrimination. There, the Chinese representative Hu Lianhe said that there was no “re-education camp” in Xinjing. Rather, China had taken measures against “terrorism”, the apprehension of Criminals, on the other hand, the “rehabilitation” of those who would have made only a slight Offences belong on the one hand, measures “vocational education.” In October, a new law in Xinjiang, in force, every local government is authorised, entered the so-called vocational training centres to set up “extremists re-educate”.
The Green party politician Margarete Bause calls: The Federal government must be compared to Beijing more clearly
The rhetoric is different, oppression strengthened
The rhetoric of the Chinese side has thus changed, as Marga rate Bause says: to sites away from the denial of the bearing of their justification as “training”. In fact, the suppression, however, has worsened, says the human rights expert: “in addition, there are UN reports, the extensive report by Human Rights Watch, scientific research, but also from eye-witnesses, how a Kazakh Uighur, who a few months ago about the brutal torture in an internment camp in Xinjiang has reported and, in the meantime, in Turkey lives.” How dramatic the Situation is, according to Bause also reports that children are separated from their families, and radically indoctrinated, a practice that has increased in the last year.