Uyghurs in China

 

If there are no "concentration camps" in Xinjiang, China, then why don't they allow foreign interviewers/journalists to check it out?

Because there are. It’s not an opinion, it’s not debatable, and the sheer amount of evidence is so staggering that one must either be blind or brainwashed to ignore all of it.

Academic papers

Finnegan, C. The Uyghur Minority in China: A Case Study of Cultural Genocide, Minority Rights and the Insufficiency of the International Legal Framework in Preventing State-Imposed Extinction. Laws 2020, 9, 1. https://doi.org/10.3390/laws9010001

Smith Finley (2020) Why Scholars and Activists Increasingly Fear a Uyghur Genocide in Xinjiang, Journal of Genocide Research, doi: 10.1080/14623528.2020.1848109

Michael Clarke (2008) China's “War on Terror” in Xinjiang: Human Security and the Causes of Violent Uighur Separatism, Terrorism and Political Violence, 20:2, 271-301, doi: 10.1080/09546550801920865

Holdstock N. Long march towards cultural genocide: As news emerges of the present horrors happening in Xinjiang, an expert on the region looks at its recent history. Index on Censorship. 2020;49(4):56-60. doi:10.1177/0306422020981277

Sun, Ivan Y.; Wu, Yuning; Triplett, Ruth; Hu, Rong (25 September 2020). "Political Efficacy, Police Legitimacy, and Public Support for Counterterrorism Measures in China". Terrorism and Political Violence. Informa UK Limited: 1-15. doi:10.1080/09546553.2020.1817741

James Leibold (2020) Surveillance in China’s Xinjiang Region: Ethnic Sorting, Coercion, and Inducement, Journal of Contemporary China, 29:121, 46-60, DOI: 10.1080/10670564.2019.1621529

Adrian Zenz (2019) ‘Thoroughly reforming them towards a healthy heart attitude’: China’s political re-education campaign in Xinjiang, Central Asian Survey, 38:1, 102-128, DOI: 10.1080/02634937.2018.1507997

JOANNE SMITH FINLEY (2007) Chinese Oppression in Xinjiang, Middle Eastern Conflicts and Global Islamic Solidarities among the Uyghurs, Journal of Contemporary China, 16:53, 627-654, DOI: 10.1080/10670560701562333

Deborah Mayersen (2021) Predicting Genocide and Mass Killing, Journal of Genocide Research, 23:1, 81-104, DOI: 10.1080/14623528.2020.1818478

Becky Alexis-Martin (2019) The nuclear imperialism-necropolitics nexus: contextualizing Chinese-Uyghur oppression in our nuclear age, Eurasian Geography and Economics, 60:2, 152-176, DOI: 10.1080/15387216.2019.1645611

Sarah Tynen (2020) Dispossession and displacement of migrant workers: the impact of state terror and economic development on Uyghurs in urban Xinjiang, Central Asian Survey, 39:3, 303-323, DOI: 10.1080/02634937.2020.1743644

Eric T. Schluessel (2007) ‘Bilingual’ education and discontent in Xinjiang, Central Asian Survey, 26:2, 251-277, DOI: 10.1080/02634930701517482

King, G., Pan, J., & Roberts, M. (2017). How the Chinese Government Fabricates Social Media Posts for Strategic Distraction, Not Engaged Argument. American Political Science Review, 111(3), 484-501. doi:10.1017/S0003055417000144

Gillian Bolsover & Philip Howard (2018). Chinese computational propaganda: automation, algorithms and the manipulation of information about Chinese politics on Twitter and Weibo. Information, Communication & Society. doi: 10.1080/1369118X.2018.1476576

Rucker Culpepper (2012) Nationalist competition on the internet: Uyghur diaspora versus the Chinese state media, Asian Ethnicity, 13:2, 187-203, DOI: 10.1080/14631369.2012.625711

Samantha Bradshaw & Philip N. Howard, “The Global Disinformation Order: 2019 Global Inventory of Organised Social Media Manipulation.” Working Paper 2019.3. Oxford, UK: Project on Computational Propaganda.

Academic Articles/Research | The International Coalition to End Transplant Abuse in China

Books

Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism in China: Domestic and Foreign Policy Dimensions, Michael Clarke, ISBN-13: 9780190922610, DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780190922610.001.0001 (Author is Assosciate Professor at Australian National University)

The war on the Uyghurs, China’s internal campaign against a Muslim minority, Sean R. Roberts, ISBN-13: 978-0691202181 (Author is associate professor of the practice of international affairs and director of the International Development Studies Program at George Washington University’s Elliot School of international Affairs)

China’s forgotten people: Xinjiang, terror and the Chinese state, Nick Holdstock, ISBN-13: 978-1784531409 (Author was a recipient of the Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship)

The Slaughter: Mass Killings, Organ Harvesting, and China's Secret Solution to Its Dissident Problem, Ethan Gutmann, ISBN-13: 978-1616149406 (Author is award-winning human rights investigator)

Under the Heel of the Dragon, Blaine Kaltman, ISBN-13: 978-0896802544 (Part of the author’s doctoral thesis, containing 217 interviews with Han Chinese and Uyghurs in Xinjiang)

The Uyghurs: Strangers in their own land, Gardner Bovingdon, ISBN-13: 978-0231147583 (Author is Associate Professor at the Hamilton Lugar School of Global and international Studies)

China’s Spatial (Dis)integration: Political Economy of the Interethnic Unrest in Xinjiang, Rongxing Guo, ISBN-13: 978-80081003879

Rescapée du goulag chinois (Survivor of the Chinese Gulag): Premier témoignage d’une survivante ouïghoure, Gulbahar Haitiwaji, ISBN-13: 9782849908242

General references:

Home - Xinjiang Documentation Project

China | Bitter Winter

China Cables | China’s Operating Manuals for Mass Internment - ICIJ

‘Absolutely No Mercy’: Leaked Files Expose How China Organized Mass Detentions of Muslims

Compelled Silence and Compelled Sound in the Uyghur Genocide - Georgetown Journal of International Affairs

Surveillance and Repression of Muslim Minorities: Xinjiang and Beyond

Xinjiang Victims

https://www.shahit.biz/eng/ (Database of Uyghur victims)

https://newlinesinstitute.org/uyghurs/the-uyghur-genocide-an-examination-of-chinas-breaches-of-the-1948-genocide-convention/

Brainwashing, Police Guards and Coercive Internment: Evidence from Chinese Government Documents about the Nature and Extent of Xinjiang’s “Vocational Training Internment Camps” | Journal of Political Risk

https://xjdp.aspi.org.au/

“Counterterrorism” in Xinjiang

https://respect.international/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Uyghurs-for-sale-%E2%80%98Re-education%E2%80%99-forced-labour-and-surveillance-beyond-Xinjiang-.pdf

Xinjiang Column - SupChina

Understanding China’s ‘preventive repression’ in Xinjiang

China’s Repression of Uyghurs in Xinjiang

The Battle for China’s Spirit

Organ Transplant Documentary Film | Harvested Alive

China Organ Harvest Research Center

Home | The International Coalition to End Transplant Abuse in China

Judgment - China Tribunal

Reporters Without Borders

China: RSF denounces the arrests of four journalists of Xinjiang Daily | Reporters without borders

Appeal by Uyghur writer | Reporters without borders

Young woman fired from Uyghur radio station, then arrested | Reporters without borders

Uyghur citizen-journalist Ilham Tohti detained again | Reporters without borders

Uyghur website editor and economist facing possible death penalty | Reporters without borders

Jail terms for three Uyghur webmasters accused of jeopardising state security | Reporters without borders

China: Uyghur citizen-journalist completes fourth year in prison | Reporters without borders

China urged to free relatives of RFA’s Uyghur-speaking journalists | Reporters without borders

China: 58 Uyghur Journalists Detained | Reporters without borders

China: RSF demands the release of Uyghur citizen journalist, 2019 Václav Havel Prize Laureate | Reporters without borders

China: RSF calls for the release of award-winning photojournalist | Reporters without borders

Human rights watch

China and Tibet: Human Rights Developments

https://www.hrw.org/legacy/wr2k2/pdf/china.pdf

https://www.hrw.org/legacy/wr2k3/pdf/chinaandtibet.pdf

https://www.hrw.org/legacy/wr2k4/download/wr2k4.pdf (page 196)

https://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/world_report_download/wr2005.pdf (page 281)

https://www.hrw.org/reports/2005/china0405/china0405text.pdf

World Report 2009: Rights Trends in China

World Report 2012: Rights Trends in World Report 2012: China

World Report 2014: Rights Trends in World Report 2014: China

World Report 2015: Rights Trends in World Report 2015: China

World Report 2016: Rights Trends in China

World Report 2017: Rights Trends in China

World Report 2018: Rights Trends in China

World Report 2019: Rights Trends in China

World Report 2020: Rights Trends in China

World Report 2021: Rights Trends in China

"We Are Afraid to Even Look for Them"

China: Forcibly Returned Uighur Asylum Seekers At Risk

China: Account for “Disappeared” Uighurs

Analysis: Inside Perspective on Uighurs

China: Draft Counterterrorism Law a Recipe for Abuses

China: Passports Arbitrarily Recalled in Xinjiang

China: Disclose Details of Terrorism Convictions

China: Police DNA Database Threatens Privacy

https://www.hrw.org/video-photos/interactive/2017/06/20/tibet-glossary-repression (technically this link is related to Tibet, but sheds insight on Xinjiang as well)

China: Free Xinjiang ‘Political Education’ Detainees

China: Minority Region Collects DNA from Millions

China: Big Data Fuels Crackdown in Minority Region

China: Visiting Officials Occupy Homes in Muslim Region

“Eradicating Ideological Viruses”

Glaring Omission in Security Council Plan to Visit China

China’s Algorithms of Repression

How Mass Surveillance Works in Xinjiang, China

UN: Unprecedented Joint Call for China to End Xinjiang Abuses

China: Xinjiang Children Separated from Families

Unprecedented UN Critique of China’s Xinjiang Policies

Who Is ‘Happy’ in Xinjiang?

https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/228974/we-are-afraid-to-even-look-for-them.pdf

International Service for Human Rights

HRC43 | Hold China accountable for brazen misuse of counter-terrorism measures to suppress fundamental freedoms

China | Global responsible businesses must address Uyghur rights violations

China | We remember the victims of enforced disappearances

China | At UN, concerns mount about repression of Muslim minorities

China | UN discrimination experts 'alarmed' at reports on Xinjiang, urge prompt action

Amnesty International:

Chinese government report to UN Human Rights Council "whitewashes abuses"

China holds Uighur journalist over Xinjiang unrest remarks

Hasty executions in China highlight unfair Xinjiang trials

China must reveal fate of Uighur asylum-seekers

China sentences Uighur journalist to 15-year prison term

China convicts Uighur web managers on state security charges

China: New testimonies reinforce call for Xinjiang riot investigation

Human rights activists face persecution in China

China urged to release Uighur activist allegedly tortured in prison

China: Authorities grow bolder in Uighur crackdown

China must reveal whereabouts of Uighur children detained after deadly clash

China: Uighur writer’s death in prison would be bitter blow

China: End persecution of detained Uighur religious leader after prison term increased for fifth time

China: Shameful stadium ‘show trial’ is not justice

China: Secret trial of prominent Uighur academic makes a mockery of justice

China: Deplorable life sentence for Uighur academic

China: Trials of leading activists expose deep hypocrisy on rule of law

Separated Souls: Uighur journalist’s unbreakable resolve to help her detained family

Uighur graduate student goes missing upon returning to China

China: Systematic repression of ethnic minorities laid bare in UN findings

China: Families of up to one million detained in mass “re-education” drive demand answers

Up to one million detained in China’s mass “re-education” drive

China's mass internment camps are places of punishment, not ‘vocational training'

UN: Act to End China’s Mass Detentions in Xinjiang

This Ramadan, many Muslims in Xinjiang are separated from loved ones

China must end hollow denials on Xinjiang and start giving answers

China: Government must show proof that Xinjiang detainees have been released

China: Uyghurs living abroad tell of campaign of intimidation

Uyghurs tell of China-led intimidation campaign abroad

Witness to discrimination: Confessions of a Han Chinese from Xinjiang

EU companies selling surveillance tools to China's human rights abusers

I am a Uyghur who was forced to leave my children - they are now in an ‘orphan camp’

China: Parents of missing Uyghur children describe horror of family separation

Families cut off from their children cannot return to China due to threat of being sent to camps

Help us find Yiliyasijiang Reheman

Freedom United

Independent legal review finds China in full breach of Genocide Convention - FreedomUnited.org

E.U. revealed to be using Chinese cameras linked to Uyghur Region atrocities - FreedomUnited.org

Pope Francis: Uyghurs are a “persecuted” people - FreedomUnited.org

Muslim Leaders Condemn Uyghur Internment Camps - FreedomUnited.org

Freedom United joins Uyghur rights groups & allies in Week Of Action against Zara - FreedomUnited.org

Rights groups call on UK to ban cotton imports from XUAR - FreedomUnited.org

Freedom United, Uyghur groups, and models stage protest at New York Fashion Week - FreedomUnited.org

Freedom United and over 190 organizations call on fashion brands to exit Uyghur Region - FreedomUnited.org

U.N. rights chief finds Uyghur Region warrants investigation - FreedomUnited.org

Hair products from XUAR seized on suspicion of forced labor by U.S. officials - FreedomUnited.org

Apparel brands testify in U.K. parliament on their links to forced labor in Uyghur Region - FreedomUnited.org

Apple, Nike, and other top brands linked to forced labor of China’s Uyghurs - FreedomUnited.org

China's Uyghur Internment Camps Turn to Forced Labor - FreedomUnited.org

The factories inside the Chinese government's mass internment camps - FreedomUnited.org

U.S. food company fined for importing goods made with forced labor in China - FreedomUnited.org

Motion on Uyghur forced labor before Australian parliament - FreedomUnited.org

Tackling forced organ harvesting backed by U.K. government - FreedomUnited.org

Refugees International

Statement by Refugees International President Eric Schwartz on Secretary Pompeo’s Genocide Announcement — Refugees International

Refugees International Statement on the Leaders’ Summit on the Global Refugee Crisis — Refugees International

Foreign Policy: The United States Should Give Fleeing Uighurs a Home — Refugees International

Frontline Defenders

UPR Submission - China 2018

China returns to the Human Rights Council after a year of relentless crackdown

Statement: Chinese authorities must end personal attacks against Turkic women human rights defenders

Minority Rights Group international

China: International firms are benefiting from Chinese technologies used to persecute Uyghurs and other minorities | Minority Rights Group

Uyghur human rights activist expelled from UN indigenous meeting | Minority Rights Group

Violence in Xinjiang rooted in decades-long discrimination | Minority Rights Group

Society for Threatened Peoples

Detention Centers in Xinjiang

New secret documents on crimes in Xinjiang

Uyghur human rights activist expelled from UN premises

"China’s long arm” threatens human rights activists Prominent Uyghur human rights activist from Germany arrested in South Korea – Immediate release is called for

Chinese hacker-attacks on Uyghur human rights activists

Internal Chinese documents on Xinjiang

180+ Orgs Demand Apparel Brands End Complicity in Uyghur Forced Labour

China: No more kitchen knives in Xinjiang – but more tanks, raids and denunciations

Uyghur refugees deported from Thailand: Eyewitnesses report killing of 25 refugees

China: Life Sentence Against the Uyghur Professor Ilham Tohti

Uyghur conflict in China threatens to escalate further!

Egypt deports Uyghur students to China

Unknown circumstances of the deaths must be investigated! Xinjiang threatens with more violence in 2012

New human rights report documents the escalating situation of the Uyghur people – the Chancellor should advocate for a release of imprisoned human rights activists

Report documents how China’s cheap exports cause more human rights violations against the Tibetans, the Uyghur people and the Mongols

Stop the cycle of violence in Xinjiang – Uyghurs must not be demonized! Plans for a regional anti- terror act

China: Europe must not forget the most prominent Uyghur prisoner!

Well-known Uyghur professor of Economics accused of separatism

China stigmatizes Muslim Uyghur as terrorists – causes of violence are ignored

Two years ago: Massacre of Uyghur people in China (July 28)

Compulsory boarding school for Uyghur children

China presents itself in best light – no room for human rights!

Human rights action in front of the Chinese Consulate in Munich

Report of a former prisoner

Report documents how China’s cheap exports cause more human rights violations against the Tibetans, the Uyghur people and the Mongols

China’s cheap exports are leading to human rights violations against Tibetans, Uyghurs, and Mongols!

256 Uyghurs convicted for "political crimes" since June 2014

https://www.gfbv.de/fileadmin/redaktion/Reporte_Memoranden/2016/MR-Report-81_China-Billigprodukte-schueren-Menschenrechtsverletzungen.pdf

China's justification for "reeducation camps" is merely a "flimsy excuse"

China's reeducation camps are fueling human rights violations, even in Kazakhstan

Detention centers in China

Facebook: Accusations of censorship

China: New report on forced labor in cotton harvest

Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect

China - Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect

Evidence submitted to the United Kingdom’s Foreign Affairs Select Committee on the situation in Xinjiang, China - Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect

The New Humanitarian

Uyghur minority fear deportation to China

Will Thailand deport Uighurs who fled China?

Uighurs deported to China face persecution

Interview with prominent Uyghur human rights activist

IRIN Focus on Uyghur community caught in “political games”

Pressure grows over Uyghur asylum seekers

Interview with the chair of national Uyghur society

Organisation Mondiale Contre la Torture (World Organisation against Torture)

Enforced disappearances of four Uyghur men_Fear for their safety

https://www.omct.org/site-resources/legacy/pr_xinjiang_21072009_encn.pdf

16 NGOs Call on UN Member States to Hold China Accountable at Human…

OMCT joins call for China resolution at Human Rights Council,…

Coalition for Genocide Response

https://genocideresponse.org/2021/03/webinar-turning-her-body-into-a-weapon-of-persecution-genocide-rape-and-sexual-violence-against-uyghur-women/

https://genocideresponse.org/2021/03/marking-the-international-day-for-the-right-to-the-truth-concerning-gross-human-rights-violations/

https://genocideresponse.org/2021/03/prime-minister-responds-to-our-letter-not-to-the-call/

https://genocideresponse.org/2021/02/how-the-economist-got-it-this-wrong/

Oxford Human Rights Hub

Counter terrorism Law & The Human Rights Violation of the Uighurs in China: An International Law Perspective

The Genocide Amendment: Suitability of the High Court (Part II)

Online Event: ‘The Genocide Convention – A Solution or Part of the Problem?’

The Genocide Amendment: Why is the UK Government dragging its feet? (Part I)

The China Cables – Dehumanisation of Uyghurs and the Need for International Censure

Cyberscoop

Chinese mobile surveillance of Uighurs more pervasive than previously thought, researchers say - CyberScoop

China-based hackers used front companies to hack Uighurs, Facebook says - CyberScoop

'Indiscriminate' iOS hacking was relatively limited, Apple says. Try telling that to the Uighur population. - CyberScoop

Securelist

Android Trojan Found in Targeted Attack

Cyber Attacks Against Uyghur Mac OS X Users Intensify

New MacOS X backdoor variant used in APT attacks

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

https://www.ushmm.org/m/pdfs/China_Alert_Sheet.pdf

Rising Risk of State-Led Mass Killing in China’s Xinjiang Region

Persecution of the Uyghurs

Chinese Persecution of the Uyghurs

https://www.ushmm.org/m/pdfs/Statistical_Risk_Assessment_2019-2020.pdf

Countries at Risk for Mass Killings 2020–21: Early Warning Project Statistical Risk Assessment Results- Early Warning Project

Country - China- Early Warning Project

Rising Risk of State-Led Mass Killing in China’s Xinjiang Region

Genocide Watch

GENOCIDE EMERGENCY ALERT FOR XINJIANG, CHINA

Timestream

Genocide Watch- Countries at Risk

As many wumaos proudly claim not to trust any western newspapers, I have refrained from citing from news sources. Even so, the evidence is staggering.

There are 2 possibilities here:

  1. That an authoritarian regime with a history of suppressing free speech and religion, as well as erasing culture and language in peripheral regions, is now doing the same in yet another troubled region; that there is, at the very least, cultural genocide, crimes against humanity, mass detention, surveillance and repression of Uyghurs and other Turkic minorities in Xinjiang.
  2. Or — that there is a worldwide conspiracy that has been happening for the past 10–20 years, involving virtually every single Western government, reputable news organisation, human rights groups, research journals, think tanks, as well as hundreds of academics from dozens of countries, all of whom plotted to overthrow China by bribing hundreds of witnesses and propping up thousands of websites.

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