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The CCP is Committing “Cultural Genocide”
Uyghur musician Sanubar Tursun
The disappearance of Uyghur artist Sanubar Tursun highlights a staggering truth: the G Word is a reality.
According to
La Libre Belgique, she was expected to perform in Rennes, Angers, and Nantes, France in February 2019, but her performances were canceled in November 2018 when her travel was apparently restricted by Chinese authorities.
- Sources close to the artist reported that she has been arrested, tried and sentenced to five years in prison. Chinese authorities, however, have refused to confirm her whereabouts.
In recent months, the
CCP has conducted mass-arrests of Uyghur intellectuals and artists throughout the northwest areas of China.
- Other artists confirmed as also having been arrested include the well-known comedian Adil Mijit, pop star Rashida Dawut, the promising young singer Zahirshah who came to fame through the Voice of the Silk Road TV program, and the folk singer Peride Mamut whose Kashgar songs were popular during the post-Cultural Revolution scene in the 1980s.
- a specialist in drylands, Tashpolat Tiyip “disappeared” at the Beijing airport in May 2017. Le Monde reported that he was traveling to Germany with a group of students for a conference.
Reyhan, a specialist in identity and nationalism in the Uyghur diaspora added that “They arrest anyone who might be useful in a challenge, even inside the system. This confirms that China is not so much going after allegedly radicalized Uyghurs but is repressing ethnic identity. Islam is not the first or the only marker of Uyghur identity.”
- Rachel Harris, a professor at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, has called this repression targeting cultural and intellectual leaders, artists, academics, and writers, “cultural genocide,” a question that international scholars have started posing all the more in relation to many groups.
- the jiaoyu zhuanhua system, normally translated as Transformation Through Education Camps, although zhuanhua, in fact, means “conversion.” According to Chinese state propaganda, these camps ostensibly exist to “counter Islamic extremism,” but in reality, these harsh detention and indoctrination camps are where victims who resist the forced “Deprogramming'' from their religious faith are tortured, in some cases to death. These camps are intended to forcibly impose the Chinese language and culture on the Uyghurs, and other ethnic minorities.
The gentle name “
transformation through education” is
intentionally misleading. These camps are
not schools, they
are prisons. Inmates must work, in addition, to being continuously indoctrinated, the “education” may be brutal.
German scholar Adrian Zenz, a respected expert on this topic,
reports that “
several detainees have
died, and others have
suffered mental breakdowns as a result of the apparently inhumane conditions in these centers.” Zenz estimates that there are one million Uyghurs detained in these camps in Xinjiang, and he calls this “the most intense campaign of coercive social reengineering [in China] since the end of the Cultural Revolution.”
Repression against the Uyghurs is
not limited to these internment camps. Outside the camps,
Uyghurs are also
required to attend political meetings and Chinese language classes. The
state has
confiscated Uyghur’s Chinese
passports and restricted their contacts abroad. Special permission from Chinese authorities is even required to leave one’s home Town.
Religious restrictions are so stringent that the government has effectively outlawed Islam.
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The source:
https://bitterwinter.org/the-ccp-is-committing-cultural-genocide/
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