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Xinjiang women gain respect and self-recognition
By Liu Xin in Kashi Source:Global Times Published: 2018/10/24
Extremists forbid the use of condom, don’t care about the children: locals
Three female dancers in the night market in Hotan. Photo: Fan Lingzhi/GT
The ongoing de-extremism efforts in Northwest China's Xinjiang Province and the launch of vocational education and training centers have helped reduce discrimination against women, and by playing a more active role in family and society, they have gained self-respect.
With the promotion of vocational skills, national laws and regulations and de-extremism education, more residents and trainees in Xinjiang begin to realize that women should not be treated as the "personal possessions" of their husbands, according to officials reached by the Global Times in Xinjiang.
Some husbands influenced by extremism would forbid their wives from working, force them to wear robes and cover their faces, or even beat their wives. Instead of obeying laws and regulations, they used distorted extremist doctrines to guide their life, the Global Times learned from a training center in Kashi.
Many female trainees at vocational education and training centers in Hotan and Kashi shared with the Global Times their stories of living a depressing life as victims of extremism.
Gulbahar Arken, a 24-year-old trainee from the training center in Kashi, was forced, when she was 15, by her father to "marry" an illegal imam, who was 40 years older.
"I was his 7th wife… at that time, I was too young to get registered with the man in the local civil affairs bureau."
"My father, who is influenced by extremism, said that by marrying this man, I can go to heaven," Gulbahar said.
She said she was beaten by the man with the handle of shovel and was forced to learn distorted religious extremism doctrines. She tried to run away several times but failed, with her father sending her back to the man.
Gulbahar finally managed to "get divorced" from the man after the man said "Talaq" three times to her [Triple Talaq, a type of instant divorce in Islam]. But her life seemed destroyed.
Triple Talaq or Islamic instant divorce means when "Talaq" is repeated three times by the husband in a Muslim family, then the couple will be formally divorced.
"The best time of my life has gone miserably and I did not and would never understand why my father did this to me," Gulbahar said.
Gulbahar said she likes life in the center and is trying to make up by learning vocational skills, which she missed in her previous life.
Women chat on a street corner in Kashi on October 23. Photo: Fan Lingzhi/GT
Removing restrictions
The practice of men asking women to wear only robes has been stopped and the situation of banning them from working has also changed.
Patigul Abaydulla, 26, is now working with her husband in a vocational education and training center in Hotan.
She told the Global Times on Tuesday that she had to cover herself thoroughly with a veil and robe at the request of her husband, who was influenced by extremism. The only income for the family of four members was her husband's earnings as a farmer and as a part-time driver.
She said that her husband has changed a lot after coming to the training center. "He has become considerate and has started to respect my parents… and I now earn at least 1,500 yuan a month. Family life is getting better," she said.
"It is painful for women to cover our beauty… why should we do this?" Madina Akbar, 19, who was once pressured by peers to wear a robe, told the Global Times.
Madina said she was once called a heretic when she wore short sleeves and a skirt when shopping in a bazaar in Urumqi in 2015.
Live for herself
Extremists also forbid the use of condoms but few of them would take care of the children, local people said.
The Global Times learned that girls in Xinjiang, especially in rural areas, usually get married at an early age and some would lie about their age to get registered with the local civil affairs bureaus.
"Compared with girls in other places, especially in the metropolis, the youth of many girls here is too short. They would soon be bound to the family and children and have little consideration of themselves," Madina told the Global Times.
Many trainees at the centers told the Global Times that they could find jobs and make money using the vocational skills they have acquired, which help them find renewed value in life, gain self-recognition and earn family respect.
Male trainees reached by the Global Times also said that they respect women and admire their contributions to the family.
For women who choose to stay at home to take care of the family, their lives have also been enriched.
Li Fang, director of the women's association in Xinjiang who is stationed in Naizhen town in Kashi, told the Global Times on Tuesday that they have evening schools at the residential communities for women and started women's associations in villages to communicate with them.
"Mothers play a crucial role in the families and their mental state and educational level would have a greater influence on their children's development," Li said.
She noted that more women are joining the evening school to learn Putonghua, which also helps enhance their children's proficiency in it.
http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1124253.shtml
By Liu Xin in Kashi Source:Global Times Published: 2018/10/24
Extremists forbid the use of condom, don’t care about the children: locals
Three female dancers in the night market in Hotan. Photo: Fan Lingzhi/GT
The ongoing de-extremism efforts in Northwest China's Xinjiang Province and the launch of vocational education and training centers have helped reduce discrimination against women, and by playing a more active role in family and society, they have gained self-respect.
With the promotion of vocational skills, national laws and regulations and de-extremism education, more residents and trainees in Xinjiang begin to realize that women should not be treated as the "personal possessions" of their husbands, according to officials reached by the Global Times in Xinjiang.
Some husbands influenced by extremism would forbid their wives from working, force them to wear robes and cover their faces, or even beat their wives. Instead of obeying laws and regulations, they used distorted extremist doctrines to guide their life, the Global Times learned from a training center in Kashi.
Many female trainees at vocational education and training centers in Hotan and Kashi shared with the Global Times their stories of living a depressing life as victims of extremism.
Gulbahar Arken, a 24-year-old trainee from the training center in Kashi, was forced, when she was 15, by her father to "marry" an illegal imam, who was 40 years older.
"I was his 7th wife… at that time, I was too young to get registered with the man in the local civil affairs bureau."
"My father, who is influenced by extremism, said that by marrying this man, I can go to heaven," Gulbahar said.
She said she was beaten by the man with the handle of shovel and was forced to learn distorted religious extremism doctrines. She tried to run away several times but failed, with her father sending her back to the man.
Gulbahar finally managed to "get divorced" from the man after the man said "Talaq" three times to her [Triple Talaq, a type of instant divorce in Islam]. But her life seemed destroyed.
Triple Talaq or Islamic instant divorce means when "Talaq" is repeated three times by the husband in a Muslim family, then the couple will be formally divorced.
"The best time of my life has gone miserably and I did not and would never understand why my father did this to me," Gulbahar said.
Gulbahar said she likes life in the center and is trying to make up by learning vocational skills, which she missed in her previous life.
Women chat on a street corner in Kashi on October 23. Photo: Fan Lingzhi/GT
Removing restrictions
The practice of men asking women to wear only robes has been stopped and the situation of banning them from working has also changed.
Patigul Abaydulla, 26, is now working with her husband in a vocational education and training center in Hotan.
She told the Global Times on Tuesday that she had to cover herself thoroughly with a veil and robe at the request of her husband, who was influenced by extremism. The only income for the family of four members was her husband's earnings as a farmer and as a part-time driver.
She said that her husband has changed a lot after coming to the training center. "He has become considerate and has started to respect my parents… and I now earn at least 1,500 yuan a month. Family life is getting better," she said.
"It is painful for women to cover our beauty… why should we do this?" Madina Akbar, 19, who was once pressured by peers to wear a robe, told the Global Times.
Madina said she was once called a heretic when she wore short sleeves and a skirt when shopping in a bazaar in Urumqi in 2015.
Live for herself
Extremists also forbid the use of condoms but few of them would take care of the children, local people said.
The Global Times learned that girls in Xinjiang, especially in rural areas, usually get married at an early age and some would lie about their age to get registered with the local civil affairs bureaus.
"Compared with girls in other places, especially in the metropolis, the youth of many girls here is too short. They would soon be bound to the family and children and have little consideration of themselves," Madina told the Global Times.
Many trainees at the centers told the Global Times that they could find jobs and make money using the vocational skills they have acquired, which help them find renewed value in life, gain self-recognition and earn family respect.
Male trainees reached by the Global Times also said that they respect women and admire their contributions to the family.
For women who choose to stay at home to take care of the family, their lives have also been enriched.
Li Fang, director of the women's association in Xinjiang who is stationed in Naizhen town in Kashi, told the Global Times on Tuesday that they have evening schools at the residential communities for women and started women's associations in villages to communicate with them.
"Mothers play a crucial role in the families and their mental state and educational level would have a greater influence on their children's development," Li said.
She noted that more women are joining the evening school to learn Putonghua, which also helps enhance their children's proficiency in it.
http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1124253.shtml
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Forgot to put more photos.Sounds like a great trip. No wonder Xinjiang has become a hot tourist spot over the years.
Share more images, if possible.
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It is incredible how the Western neo-fascist media spins stories on countries which their regimes consider as enemy.
No wonder Trump does not trust the Western media.
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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.
On 12 July 2015 a satellite swung over the rolling deserts and oasis cities of China's vast far west.
One of the images it captured that day just shows a patch of empty, untouched, ashen-grey sand.
It seems an unlikely place to start an investigation into one of the most pressing human rights concerns of our age.
But less than three years later, on 22 April 2018, a satellite photo of that same piece of desert showed something new.
A massive, highly secure compound had materialised.
It is enclosed with a 2km-long exterior wall punctuated by 16 guard towers.
The first reports that China was operating a system of internment camps for Muslims in Xinjiang began to emerge last year.
The satellite photograph was discovered by researchers looking for evidence of that system on the global mapping software, Google Earth.
It places the site just outside the small town of Dabancheng, about an hour's drive from the provincial capital, Urumqi.
To try to avoid the suffocating police scrutiny that awaits every visiting journalist, we land at Urumqi airport in the early hours of the morning.
But by the time we arrive in Dabancheng we're being followed by at least five cars, containing an assortment of uniformed and plain-clothes police officers and government officials.
It's already clear that our plan to visit a dozen suspected camps over the course of the next few days is not going to be easy.
s we drive up the wide approach road we know that sooner or later the convoy behind is going to try to stop us.
While still a few hundred metres away, we see something unexpected.
The wide expanse of dusty ground, shown on the satellite image to the east of the site, is empty no more.
In its place, a huge extension project is taking shape-
Like a mini-city sprouting from the desert and bristling with cranes, are row upon row of giant, grey buildings - all of them four storeys high.
With our cameras rolling we try to capture the extent of the construction, but before we can go much further one of the police cars swings into action.
Our car is stopped - we're told to turn off the cameras and to leave.
But we've discovered something of significance - a huge amount of extra activity that has so far gone unnoticed by the outside world.
In remote parts of the world, Google Earth images can take months or years to update.
Other public sources of satellite photography however - like the European Space Agency's Sentinel database - provide much more frequent images, although they're of a much lower resolution.
It is here that we find what we are looking for.
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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.
On 12 July 2015 a satellite swung over the rolling deserts and oasis cities of China's vast far west.
One of the images it captured that day just shows a patch of empty, untouched, ashen-grey sand.
It seems an unlikely place to start an investigation into one of the most pressing human rights concerns of our age.
But less than three years later, on 22 April 2018, a satellite photo of that same piece of desert showed something new.
A massive, highly secure compound had materialised.
It is enclosed with a 2km-long exterior wall punctuated by 16 guard towers.
The satellite photograph was discovered by researchers looking for evidence of that system on the global mapping software, Google Earth.
It places the site just outside the small town of Dabancheng, about an hour's drive from the provincial capital, Urumqi.
To try to avoid the suffocating police scrutiny that awaits every visiting journalist, we land at Urumqi airport in the early hours of the morning.
But by the time we arrive in Dabancheng we're being followed by at least five cars, containing an assortment of uniformed and plain-clothes police officers and government officials.
It's already clear that our plan to visit a dozen suspected camps over the course of the next few days is not going to be easy.
s we drive up the wide approach road we know that sooner or later the convoy behind is going to try to stop us.
While still a few hundred metres away, we see something unexpected.
The wide expanse of dusty ground, shown on the satellite image to the east of the site, is empty no more.
In its place, a huge extension project is taking shape-
Like a mini-city sprouting from the desert and bristling with cranes, are row upon row of giant, grey buildings - all of them four storeys high.
With our cameras rolling we try to capture the extent of the construction, but before we can go much further one of the police cars swings into action.
Our car is stopped - we're told to turn off the cameras and to leave.
But we've discovered something of significance - a huge amount of extra activity that has so far gone unnoticed by the outside world.
In remote parts of the world, Google Earth images can take months or years to update.
Other public sources of satellite photography however - like the European Space Agency's Sentinel database - provide much more frequent images, although they're of a much lower resolution.
It is here that we find what we are looking for.
ZedRef- BBC
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Relax man. BBC is not infallible. They made a mistake. The site is the Chinese Area 51 and thus highly restricted zone.
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Just Chill, Pakistan is only talking about muslims in Palestine, Kashmir, Burma, Syria etc but not of china because they are bhai bhai
Amazing investigation. More words, less images, rather words that they tried to get images, but you know that's the equivalent of images anyways.
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bro- u just told my heart s talk . zajak Allah .
BBc i say them Bastards Broadcasting Corporation. Even infornt of many BBC high Aythority i did wash on them. BUt brother- One thing i optimize and that is they provide false news. But - What Info they deliver 20 % is okay . not error. And you or i cant deny the oprasion of our muslim brother and sisters In china.
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I am sorry there is no proof. You said 80% is lies, well this report makes part of that 80%. In fact anything BBC or Western media reports is lies on China. The only reliable source for news on China is CGTN and CCTV. For a Muslim China is probably one of the best countries to be born in - it provides better education, better health, better life chances then any South Asian country including even Pakistan. In fact I am [secretly] jealous of Chinese Muslims.
And as I said earlier I have reliable information that the facelity BBC investingated is PLAAF base housing Chinese equivalent of the highly secret Area 51 in USA.
Ps. Our great PM Imran Khan is due to visit our 'ironcad' friend soon and we look forward to even closer economic and military cooperation to the grief of Indians.
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Bro you talk about Chinese but you never raised the issue of how Hissana's govt brutally beaten the hell out of poor students who protested for road safety. Seriously what happened to those students was way worse than what happened to anyone else.
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No we are not talking about Burma or Syria.
Kashmir is our land and Palestine gets only lip service.
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