BBC; Data leak reveals how China 'brainwashes' Uighurs in prison camps
"The leaked Chinese government documents, which the ICIJ have labelled
"The China Cables", include a nine-page memo sent out in 2017 by Zhu
Hailun, then deputy-secretary of Xinjiang's Communist Party and the
region's top security official, to those who run the camps...
The memo includes orders to:
- "Never allow escapes"
- "Increase discipline and punishment of behavioural violations"
- "Promote repentance and confession"
- "Make remedial Mandarin studies the top priority"
- "Encourage students to truly transform"
- "[Ensure] full video surveillance coverage of dormitories and classrooms free of blind spots"
The documents reveal how every aspect of a detainee's life is
monitored and controlled: "The students should have a fixed bed
position, fixed queue position, fixed classroom seat, and fixed station
during skills work, and it is strictly forbidden for this to be changed.
"Implement behavioural norms and discipline requirements for
getting up, roll call, washing, going to the toilet, organising and
housekeeping, eating, studying, sleeping, closing the door and so
forth."...
The leaked documents also reveal how the Chinese government uses mass
surveillance and a predictive-policing programme that analyses personal
data."
Editorial Board, The Washington Post; China got rid of one of the most oppressive practices of the Mao era. Now it’s coming back.
"This has become one of the world’s most urgent human rights crises. Congress should pass the Uighur Human Rights Policy Act,
which has bipartisan sponsorship in both chambers. In the House this
includes Reps. Christopher H. Smith (R-N.J.) and Thomas Suozzi (D-N.Y.),
as well as the likely next speaker, Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.). The bill
would create a U.S. special coordinator for Xinjiang to respond to the
crisis and pave the way for applying Global Magnitsky Act sanctions
on specific Chinese officials. It would increase vigilance against
commerce that could abet the camp system. The Associated Press has found
sportswear
from one Xinjiang compound headed for Western markets. President Trump
has been way too silent about the Xinjiang repression, although other administration officials have spoken out.
“Never
again,” the vow to avoid another genocide, has meaning only if backed
by action. China must hear loud and clear that the world will not stand
by as Beijing attempts to destroy a people through forced labor and
brainwashing."
