Four hundred thousand to one million people in concentration camps.
If these estimates are true, that means that at least one—and perhaps far more—of every ten Uyghur men lives in a re-education camp right now.
Under a system called fanghuiju, teams of half a dozen—composed of policemen or local officials and always including one Uighur speaker, which almost always means a Uighur—go from house to house compiling dossiers of personal information. Fanghuiju is short for “researching people’s conditions, improving people’s lives, winning people’s hearts”. But the party refers to the work as “eradicating tumours”. The teams—over 10,000 in rural areas in 2017—report on “extremist” behaviour such as not drinking alcohol, fasting during Ramadan and sporting long beards. They report back on the presence of “undesirable” items, such as Korans, or attitudes—such as an “ideological situation” that is not in wholehearted support of the party.
The article talks about the new system of surveillance and "Social Credit" that has been implemented in China, and the attempts by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to destroy the culture, religion, and heritage of the Uighur people living in the Xinjing region of China. It is a kind of re-education, tyranny, and destruction of a unique culture and heritage that is unparalleled in the western world. The author, Mr. Greer, frequently writes about Chinese and far east issues, including foreign policy and domestic issues in China.
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> Four hundred thousand to one million people in concentration camps.
> If these estimates are true, that means that at least one—and perhaps far more—of every ten Uyghur men lives in a re-education camp right now.
> Under a system called fanghuiju, teams of half a dozen—composed of policemen or local officials and always including one Uighur speaker, which almost always means a Uighur—go from house to house compiling dossiers of personal information. Fanghuiju is short for “researching people’s conditions, improving people’s lives, winning people’s hearts”. But the party refers to the work as “eradicating tumours”. The teams—over 10,000 in rural areas in 2017—report on “extremist” behaviour such as not drinking alcohol, fasting during Ramadan and sporting long beards. They report back on the presence of “undesirable” items, such as Korans, or attitudes—such as an “ideological situation” that is not in wholehearted support of the party.
The article talks about the new system of surveillance and "Social Credit" that has been implemented in China, and the attempts by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to destroy the culture, religion, and heritage of the Uighur people living in the Xinjing region of China. It is a kind of re-education, tyranny, and destruction of a unique culture and heritage that is unparalleled in the western world. The author, Mr. Greer, frequently writes about Chinese and far east issues, including foreign policy and domestic issues in China.
Excerpt from the beginning -
The article talks about the new system of surveillance and "Social Credit" that has been implemented in China, and the attempts by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to destroy the culture, religion, and heritage of the Uighur people living in the Xinjing region of China. It is a kind of re-education, tyranny, and destruction of a unique culture and heritage that is unparalleled in the western world. The author, Mr. Greer, frequently writes about Chinese and far east issues, including foreign policy and domestic issues in China.