Some reality on the ground with real people, which cannot be found in Chinese propaganda links.
If you are Muslims, then May Allah help/forgive you if you make comments against your inner voice.
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A prison officer in Xinjiang said,
- they must speak Chinese, eat pork, wear Han clothes, and live according to the Han people’s habits and tradition.
There is even a special name for families with both mother and father in custody:
- “double-detained families.
In 2017, similar
Loving Heart schools and transformation through education camps...appeared in large numbers in Xinjiang. According to sources, in Lop county alone,
- Loving Heart nurseries (for children aged 1 to 3 years) and nine kindergartens...Seven Loving Heart full-time nursery classes have been set up in junior and senior middle schools...as many as 2,000 children are being held in custody.
A teacher who previously worked at a “welfare home” (which is similar in nature to a shelter house) in Bole city told
Bitter Winter that
- ...more than 200 Uyghur children who are housed at that facility had very unstable moods. Some of them even tried to ingest laundry detergent or swallow fish bones to harm themselves. And some asked, “Is this [welfare home] a jail?”
A map of China is hung in the dorm, and the walls are covered with propaganda slogans, such as
- “I’m Chinese; I love my country” and “Always follow the Party.”
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The source:
https://bitterwinter.org/video-uyghur-children-indoctrinated-in-camps/
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...her mother-in-law was also taken prisoner, and Meripet learned from a friend that her 3- to 8-year-olds had been placed in a de facto orphanage in the Xinjiang region, under the care of the state that broke up her family.
- “It’s like my kids are in jail,” Meripet said, her voice cracking. “My four children are separated from me and living like orphans.”
Former detainees say
- one can be thrown into a camp for praying regularly, reading the Quran, going abroad or even speaking to someone overseas.
The camps are among the most troubling aspects of Xi’s campaign to assert the
party’s dominance over all aspects of Chinese life, which has drawn comparisons with Mao Zedong. Authorities heeding Xi’s call to “Sinicize” religion across the country have
In Xinjiang, detention has left countless children without their parents. Most of these families in China cannot be reached by journalists. However, the AP interviewed
- 14 Uighur families living in Turkey and one Kazakh man in Almaty with a total of 56 children who remain in China.
the start of last year, the government has budgeted more than $30 million (200 million Chinese yuan) to build or expand
- at least 45 orphanages, known variously as children’s “welfare centers” and “protection centers,” with enough beds to house about 5,000 children.
- It’s impossible to tell how many children of detainees end up at these schools because they also serve other children.
Satellite imagery shows that the kindergarten was constructed less than three years ago, just as an initiative was launched to strengthen “bilingual” education in Xinjiang. More than
James Leibold, an expert on Chinese ethnic policy at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia.
- “You grow up as a ward of the state,” he said. “They’re told to be patriotic citizens, told that the identity and religion of their parents was abnormal, if not radical, and thus needs to be eradicated.”
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The source:
https://www.apnews.com/903a97b7c62a47b98553b6f422827dd7