‘Absolutely No Mercy’: Leaked Files Expose How China Organized Mass Detentions of Muslims; The New York Times, November 16, 2019
The party has rejected international criticism of the camps and described them as job-training centers
that use mild methods to fight Islamic extremism. But the documents
confirm the coercive nature of the crackdown in the words and orders of
the very officials who conceived and orchestrated it.
Even as the government presented its efforts in
Xinjiang to the public as benevolent and unexceptional, it discussed
and organized a ruthless and extraordinary campaign in these internal
communications. Senior party leaders are recorded ordering drastic and
urgent action against extremist violence, including the mass detentions,
and discussing the consequences with cool detachment.
Children saw their parents taken away, students
wondered who would pay their tuition and crops could not be planted or
harvested for lack of manpower, the reports noted. Yet officials were
directed to tell people who complained to be grateful for the Communist
Party’s help and stay quiet."
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