Cogito Ergo Non Serviam
China Arrested 13,000 "Terrorists" in Five Years
The ChiCom government in Beijing claims that it has arrested over 13,000 "terrorists" in the province of Xinjiang in the last five years. In fact, it is running a system of concentration camps and forcing "re-education" on Muslims living within the borders of the PRC. Over one million Uighurs, Kazakhs and other non-Han Chinese are currently detained. The Communist Party can spin this all it wants, but in the end, the red fascism reveals itself.
The state council itself released a white paper earlier today that said, "Since 2014, Xinjiang has destroyed 1,588 violent and terrorist gangs, arrested 12,995 terrorists, seized 2,052 explosive devices, punished 30,645 people for 4,858 illegal religious activities, and confiscated 345,229 copies of illegal religious material." Leaving aside the idea that any religious material is illegal, these numbers strike one as ridiculous.
If this is accurate, Xinjiang had more terrorists than Afghanistan had when Osama bin Laden was training his Al Qaeda murderers there. That is an astonishing number, and one can only conclude that it is completely fictitious or that the security services was lax to the point of criminal negligence for decades in order for terrorists to arise in such numbers. No one disputes the efficiency and effectiveness of the Ministry of State Security, so one must presume the numbers are plain made up.
What is really going on is simply the eradication of a culture that does not harmonize with the values and goals of the Beijing regime. Muslims inherently have a different perspective on the morality and utility of the Party running the show without any opposition. These ethnic minorities do not fit in. The Han Chinese make up about 92% of the people in the People's Republic of China, and the other 8% are viewed with suspicion by the regime. The one thing the PRC fears most is civil instability, and ethnic groups that don't fit in (either by choice or by force) form a basis for potential instability. The PRC has struck on an obvious, and probably ineffective, approach to addressing the issue. Calling concentration camps "boarding schools," as the authorities have done, does not change their nature.
Reuters reports "Omir Bekali, a Kazakh Uighur, told a panel at the event that he had been tortured by Xinjiang police and held in a camp for six months in a small room with 40 people. 'We had to applaud the Communist Party, sing songs about (Chinese leader) Xi Jinping and say thanks for the government. We had no right to talk,' he said."
The wire service also spoke to Adrian Zenz, a German researcher who said, "Although it is speculative it seems appropriate to estimate that up to 1.5 million ethnic minorities -- equivalent to just under 1 in 6 adult members of a predominantly Muslim minority group in Xinjiang -- are or have been interned in any of these detention, internment and re-education facilities, excluding formal prisons." He also said, "The Chinese state's present attempt to eradicate independent and free expressions of the distinct ethnic and religious identities in Xinjiang is nothing less than a systematic campaign of cultural genocide and should be treated as such."
The policy is familiar to anyone who has examined the Chinese occupation of Tibet. Indeed, some of the ideas used in Xinjiang are popping up in Tibet. The Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization stated, "Internment camps like those built in East Turkestan for the Uyghur population are now spreading into Tibet. New satellites images show the recent construction of several prison-like camps in Chinese occupied Tibet. The name used by the Chinese Communist Party to describe those prisons is even more ridiculous than the 'Reeducation Camps' used to describe the ones in East Turkestan, as the CCP calls them 'Buddhist Temples'."
The Guardian wrote yesterday, "In Beijing, the region's governor -- its most senior Uighur official -- suggested that numbers are likely to dwindle and that the centres will disappear 'if one day our society doesn't need them'."
This journal says today is the day.
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