Al-Jazeera: China holds one million Uighur Muslims in concentration camps

[Dubious]

Chachu ap to bary khaber rkhty ho her cheez ki .. main ne to sawal pucha he

No one exactly knows whether Al-Jazeera buys US channels or someone in the US actually owns Al-Jazeera
or may be it's owned by some "Weinstein" in US. It's too much dubious, may be @Dubious knows something about this dubious channel.

Al Jazeera buys US channel Current TV

No clue...Cant be bothered..

 

[Sharky]

Good job china. We need to follow the chinese example here in India. Religion is a curse.

 

[HannibalBarca]

Good job china. We need to follow the chinese example here in India. Religion is a curse.

Good luck putting 1.4Bil Indians in concentration camps...
Tbh... I'm pretty sure you will get unwanted cheers in the process...

 

[Sharky]

Good luck putting 1.4Bil Indians in concentration camps...
Tbh... I'm pretty sure you will get unwanted cheers in the process...

For a sane nation of rational thinking individuals with high iq, all forms of religions must be extinguished through these reeducation camps. If china can do it so should india. I applaud the chinese.

 

[RaGotimaar]

If India had done this to Kashmiris, Pakistanis would be fuming and going crazy but nothing when it comes to the Chinese. Not even a demand for a independent investigation. Na baap bada na bhaiya Sabse bada rupaiya!

 

[HannibalBarca]

For a sane nation of rational thinking individuals with high iq, all forms of religions must be extinguished through these reeducation camps. If china can do it so should india. I applaud the chinese.

Religion isn't a problem...The one using religion for his own sake is the problem...

Not gonna tell you that Till this day...99.999% of Discoveries in all fields were done by "Religious ppl"... or in "Religious Societies"
So clearly Religion Isn't the problem for lacking basic Education...

But it doesn't mean non-religious ppl are dumb or can't "discover"...

India will mostly need to put away all those wannabe Gods in all religion and then she can work from it (Education; Order; Rule of Law etc...) Till then...Enjoy (as you can)

 

[Cybernetics]

The ironic and pathetic part of the Chinese propaganda machine is that a non Muslim is now going to educate a Muslim. But about what? How not to be a Muslim? Or forcing him to eat in Ramadan. Or forcing him to say bad things about Islam. Who the hell Chinese think they are?

Sure they can and I think it would do the region wonders. Uyghurs and other isolated groups need technical and trades training (as suggested by the article) to adapt to the growing economy, or they would be left out and they are the least urbanized ethnic group in China. This was cause for some instability in the past when migrant workers from uneducated and isolated backgrounds migrated to cities to find work. The inability to access high paying jobs due to skills and language gap was frustrating, leading to a life of crime for some. Better integration is needed.

Frankly, Han ethnic and Han run institutions are generally much more industrious than other ethnic groups in China, it is just the reality we have to deal with. Compounded with the fact that children born in the Bingtuan have an average IQ of 120 (higher than national and local average) have access to good education and environment, it creates inequality. To lessen this inequality, better access to education is needed for the Uyghurs. The government provides food, housing, and other subsidies for those Uyghurs. The issue is that development came so quick in Xinjiang that those less equipped to adapt to the change would feel left out and this is not a preferred situation. Many adult Uyghurs were not properly educated in trades and technical fields or STEM subjects, this was due to isolation (most were rural). Now they are receiving education later in life to enable a better life for themselves and their children.

The other option would be to have them largely left out of development of the West. Development will happen regardless but it is preferable if they can participate and I hope they have a good future.

 

[Mamluk]

For a sane nation of rational thinking individuals with high iq, all forms of religions must be extinguished through these reeducation camps. If china can do it so should india. I applaud the chinese.

You sound like one of those people who think being anti-religion or atheist makes you look intelligent. This type is not known for high iq.

Religion isn't a problem...The one using religion for his own sake is the problem...

Not gonna tell you that Till this day...99.999% of Discoveries in all fields were done by "Religious ppl"... or in "Religious Societies"
So clearly Religion Isn't the problem for lacking basic Education...

But it doesn't mean non-religious ppl are dumb or can't "discover"...

India will mostly need to put away all those wannabe Gods in all religion and then she can work from it (Education; Order; Rule of Law etc...) Till then...Enjoy (as you can)

People will kill people, with or without religion. Hitler, Stalin and Mao were "rational thinking" killers.

The problem is people, not religion.

Just identify the bad guys, then stay away from them or keep them away from power, and guns.

 

[HannibalBarca]

You sound like one of those people who think being anti-religion or atheist makes you look intelligent. This type is not known for high iq.



People will kill people, with or without religion. Hitler, Stalin and Mao were "rational thinking" killers.

The problem is people, not religion.

Just identify the bad guys, then stay away from them or keep them away from power, and guns.

But for Humans it's a tiring process...So the best way for most of us is to label "Something/Someone" and put our Hatred/Belief/misconception etc... on it and Voila...

 

[Suriya]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1055047516088098818

Inside China's internment camps: Tear gas, Tasers and textbooks
Chinese local governments have ordered pepper spray, handcuffs and electric cattle prods for Uighur internment centres.

On state television, the vocational education centre in China's far west looked like a modern school where happy students studied Mandarin, brushed up their job skills, and pursued hobbies such as sports and folk dance.

But earlier this year, one of the local government departments in charge of such facilities in Xinjiang's Hotan prefecture made several purchases that had little to do with education: 2,768 police batons, 550 electric cattle prods, 1,367 pairs of handcuffs, and 2,792 cans of pepper spray.

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The shopping list was among over a thousand procurement requests made by local governments in the Xinjiang region since early 2017 related to the construction and management of a sprawling system of "vocational education and training centres".

The facilities have come under international scrutiny, with rights activists describing them as political re-education camps holding as many as one million ethnic Uighurs and other Muslim minorities.

Beijing had previously denied their existence. But a global outcry, including from the UN and the US, sparked a PR counter-offensive.

Government propaganda insisted the centres were aimed at countering the spread of separatism, violence and religious "extremism" through "free" education and job training.

However, an AFP examination of more than 1,500 publicly available government documents - ranging from tenders and budgets to official work reports - shows the centres are run more like jails than schools.

Thousands of guards equipped with tear gas, Tasers, stun guns and spiked clubs keep tight control over "students" in facilities ringed with razor wire and infrared cameras, according to the documents.

The centres should "teach like a school, be managed like the military, and be defended like a prison", said one document, quoting Xinjiang's party secretary Chen Quanguo.

To build new, better Chinese citizens, another document argued, the centres must first "break their lineage, break their roots, break their connections, and break their origins".

'Detain those who should be detained'
The centre featured on state broadcaster CCTV last week is one of at least 181 such facilities in Xinjiang, according to data collected by AFP

Participation is voluntary, according to CCTV, which showed contented "students" wearing matching uniforms, studying Mandarin and learning trades like knitting, weaving and baking.

The centres first appeared in 2014, the year that authorities launched a new "strike hard" campaign against "terrorism" after deadly violence in Xinjiang.



But the buildup began in earnest in early 2017, with local governments in predominantly Uighur southern Xinjiang ordered to speed up the construction of "concentrated educational transformation centres for focus groups" - a euphemism for the religious, the poor, the uneducated, passport holders, and virtually all men of military age.

Shortly after, Xinjiang's regional government issued regulations on managing "religious extremism".

"Extremists" could be hiding anywhere, officials warned, instructing cadres to be on the lookout for 25 illegal religious activities and 75 signs of "extremism", including such seemingly innocuous activities as quitting smoking or buying a tent.

"Detain those who should be detained to the greatest extent possible," cadres were told.

Detentions surged, catching local governments unprepared.

In 2017, spending by justice bureaux throughout Xinjiang exploded, driven largely by huge outlays for building and running vocational centres.

The offices spent nearly three billion yuan ($432m) - at least 577 percent more than planned - according to AFP's calculations.

Counties in the south closed the gap with a special fund earmarked for centres in the region.

At least some of that money came directly from the Communist Party's Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission - the group in charge of the nation's legal authorities - budget documents showed.

'Wolf's teeth'
Around April 2017, local governments began posting a wide variety of tenders related to the facilities.

Some orders - furniture, air conditioners, bunk beds, cutlery - would not seem out of place at a typical Chinese university.
But others resembled prison equipment: sophisticated surveillance systems, cameras for recording students in their rooms, razor wire, a system for eavesdropping on phone calls, and infrared monitoring devices.

The centres also bought police uniforms, riot shields and helmets, pepper spray, tear gas, net guns, stun guns, electrified batons, billy clubs, spears, handcuffs and spiked clubs known as "wolf's teeth".

At least one centre requested "tiger chairs", a device used by Chinese police to restrain interrogation subjects.

The gear was necessary, party officials in the regional capital Urumqi argued in an emergency request for Tasers, to "guarantee staff members' personal safety".

Non-lethal weapons, it said, were important for "reducing the possibility of accidental injury in some situations where it is not necessary to use standard firearms".

Despite repeated attempts by AFP, local authorities could not be reached for comment.

'Self-criticisms'
At the end of 2017, "higher authorities" issued directions to standardise the facilities' operations.

New "vocational education and training service management bureaux" were set up, headed by officials experienced in running prisons and detention centres, according to local government websites.
Students would be tested on their knowledge of Mandarin and propaganda on a weekly, monthly and "seasonal" basis, and write regular "self-criticisms", one bureau wrote in a memo.

They would spend their days "shouting slogans, singing red songs and memorising the Three Character Classic", it said, referring to an ancient Confucian text.

Their files lodged in a centralised database, students were sorted into categories based on their offences and levels of accomplishment.

Criminals who had completed a prison sentence were released directly into the centres, under the principle of "putting untrustworthy people in a trustworthy place".

Students who performed well would be allowed to call their families or even visit them in special rooms at the centres.

Officials were ordered to regularly visit students' families at home to give them "anti-extremism" lessons and check for signs of anger that could harden into opposition to the Communist Party.

The new bureaus also ensured "absolute security" against "troublemaking" in the centres, including preventing "escapes", one local management bureau wrote in a breakdown of its duties.

In addition to ex-prisoners and those charged with religious "extremism", local governments were also ordered to ensure that at least one member of each household received vocational education for a minimum of one to three months - a measure ostensibly aimed at alleviating poverty in the region of 24 million.

While China has rejected estimates that upwards of one million are held in the centres, tender documents hint at huge numbers.

In a one-month period in early 2018, Hotan county's vocational education bureau, which oversees at least one centre, ordered 194,000 Chinese language practise books.

 

[terry5]

China is accused of locking up hundreds of thousands of Muslims without trial in its western region of Xinjiang.

The government denies the claims, saying people willingly attend special “vocational schools” which combat “terrorism and religious extremism”.

Now a BBC investigation has found important new evidence of the reality.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/China_hidden_camps

 

[xyxmt]

one million held in concentration camp and no one knew about it until US started having issues with China LOL

 

[haidian]

US locked up all ethnic Japanese , forfeited all their belongings and put them in concentration camps during WWII, and because they did that and they believe others will do the same.

Ethnicity based concentration camps, two countries are experts due to their rich past experiences, Nazi Germany and US.