[Field Story] Girls with their long hair harshly cut off... The Reality of Chinese Uyghur Genocide

At the end of May 2022, German anthropologist Adrian N. Zenz (1974-) exposed top-secret materials produced by Chinese police in Xinjiang.

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According to an investigation by international researchers, since 2017, the Chinese government has forcibly detained between at least 800,000 to 2 million Muslims in Xinjiang, including Uighurs, Kazakhs and Uzbeks. The Chinese government, which had denied the existence of the Hansako camp, just repeated the words that the facilities were “vocational and technical education and training centres” after the satellite images were released.

It was a stereotypical response of the Chinese Communist Party in that they were deeply considerate in their efforts to revive the economy of the underdeveloped Xinjiang region by providing opportunities for job training to the Uyghurs. In December 2019, Xinjiang's local government announced that "all have graduated." In 2020, the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) studied satellite images to discover 380 facilities that appeared to be re-education camps, detention centres, and prisons.

Until now, experts on Uyghur issues have usually conducted research based on satellite images, open government documents or eyewitness accounts, but with the release of the "Xinjiang Police File," they now have vivid primary source data that reveal the realities inside the facility. Observing the images in the file, it becomes clear that what the Chinese government refers to as “vocational training centres” are actually concentration camps where Uyghurs, Kazaks, and Uzbeks in Xinjiang are detained, brainwashed, and subjected to hard labour.

Currently, photo IDs of 2,884 Uyghur detainees are posted on the Xinjiang Police Files website. They were taken in the first half of 2018 at a police station and detention centre in Konasheher county, Kashgar province in southwestern Xinjiang, an area with a large Uyghur population. Next to the photo in the file, personal information such as age, gender, detention status, sentence, blood type, and reason for detention are listed.

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Eighteen-year-old Yarmemet Abdukerim was arrested because his father was a social disaffector. Eighteen-year-old Ibrahim Tursun was pulled over for turning off his cell phone. Eighteen-year-old Mehmut Abdukerim was detained because he was "stubborn in thought and learned the Islamic scriptures from his mother." In addition, there are cases where they were arrested for preparing terrorist activities, threatening their parents, or accompanying dangerous people.

As for male detainees in their 30s and 40s, 31-year-old Adil Alip was sentenced to 10 years in July 2016 for illegally studying Islamic scriptures, praying at a mosque for two days, and memorising Islamic scriptures.

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50-year-old Parkland Casswood was arrested and sentenced to 17 years for “willful injury.” Closer observation reveals that he did not directly commit terrorism, but he was accused of preparing a terrorist act. Also, his religious activities are listed as reasons for his arrest. Between 2010 and 2011, he listened to Imam Yumaier's sermons at the mosque several times. The content of the sermon was that "Muslims should pray five times a day, help each other, fast regularly, pay religious tax, and refrain from drinking and smoking."

Other numerous cases were detained, forced to re-educate, and sentenced to prison for possessing extreme religious knowledge, causing chaos by fighting, observing the Islamic halal diet, wearing a hijab, and growing a beard.

The mobile phone application (APP) used for police work, such as to monitor and control Xinjiang, is called “United Alliance Operation.” Through this app, Xinjiang police can look into all the actions of individuals, including banking transactions, phone calls, and illegal activities. Xinjiang police present 36 types of humans that commit delinquency. People who don't use mobile phones, people who go in and out of the back door instead of the front door, people who use an excessive amount of electricity, people who grow beards, people who engage in few social activities, people who have complicated social relationships, people who have different ideologies in their families, people who have travelled overseas to sensitive countries, are all suspected of showing potential terrorist tendencies.

International human rights organisations have reported that countless people in Xinjiang are arrested and detained for going to mosques, having ideological or religious beliefs, reciting the Koran, for being a certain ethnic group, implicated because they are family members or friends, and sometimes suddenly gone completely missing without any reason. A quick look at the “Xinjiang Police File” proves that all these points are true.

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“In Xinjiang, about 2 million people have been influenced by Xinjiang's independence, pan-Islamism and pan-Turkish thinking. In southern Xinjiang, there are more than 2 million people affected by religious extremism.”

Zhenzi, who released the Xinjiang Police File, is closely analysing this text. The first “about 2 million” that Zhao Kezu refers to relates to the number of people who agree with Xinjiang’s independence and separatism among all Turkish ethnic groups living in Xinjiang, such as Uyghurs, Kazakhs, and Kyrgyz. The second, “more than 2 million”, refers to more specific religious extremists living in southern Xinjiang.

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In light of the precedents of Chinese bureaucratic administration, the figure of “more than 2 million” may be a specific target set by the central government in Beijing to the local government in Xinjiang.

In fact, from April 2017, a large-scale arrest order was issued in Xinjiang. From June 19th, in just one week, 16,000 people were arrested in 4 states, and 5,500 people went missing. As a result, in 2017 alone, 20% of the nation's arrests came from Xinjiang, which is home to just 2% of China's total population.

In this context, the “more than 2 million people” that Zhao Kezu said can be interpreted as a specific order to actually capture more than 2 million people in Xinjiang and completely reform their ideology. That is to say, the target number of the “united coalition operation” in Xinjiang is more than 2 million. Even if it were more than 2 million, as we saw above, anyone could have been arrested on suspicion of religious extremism, so it is presumed that the Xinjiang police would have achieved that figure without much difficulty.

Source: Chosun Ilbo

5 I cry to you, O Lord; I say, “You are my refuge, my portion in the land of the living.”

6 Attend to my cry, for I am brought very low! Deliver me from my persecutors, for they are too strong for me!

7 Bring me out of prison, that I may give thanks to your name! The righteous will surround me, for you will deal bountifully with me. (Psalm 142:5-7)

The good and faithful God of the Uyghurs, we believe that You know all of the long suffering and tribulation of this people.

Would You hear the cries of those who are imprisoned in concentration camps just because they are Muslims and are dying in extreme oppression and persecution that seems to never end. Would you answer them and deliver them.

God, deliver their souls from this prison.

May the lies of Islam, which has been deceiving and reigning over them for thousands of years, be fully exposed, and may the grace of the Lamb of Jesus, who wants to wash away all of our ugly sins, cover the Uyghurs who have been crying out for refuge.

Let the Uyghurs experience the amazing grace of God that transfers at once from death to life and from darkness to light, and let their long groanings change into sounds of thanksgiving and praise for your grace.

The enemy threatens us like a roaring lion, but we know that Jesus, who has already conquered the power of death, is with the Uyghurs, so that even if they walk through the valley of death, they will only walk with You.

As we long for the day that they would dwell in the Father’s house that You have prepared for them, let us faithfully preach the gospel of life that saved us! Let this nation rise up as the holy bride of the Lord preparing the way of his return.