'The unabated oppression that the Uyghur community faces at the hands of China is a stain on the conscience of the world,' Nancy Pelosi told Newsweek.
At least 1 million people are, right this very moment, languishing in what the U.S. military has now deemed “concentration camps” in China. But recent attempts by U.S. officials and lawmakers to push for change have made little difference as a shocking human rights crisis continues to worsen.
"The Communist Party is using the security forces for mass imprisonment of Chinese Muslims in concentration camps," Randall Schriver, assistant secretary of defense for Indo-Pacific security affairs, said at a press briefing. When asked about the phrase, Schriver said it was an"appropriate description" given the “magnitude of the detention… what the goals are of the Chinese government and their own public comments.
“I have to shut up, I have to stay quiet. If not, I won't be able to see my mom or hear her voice again,” Jawdat told Newsweek in April one of the messages said. Despite moving to the U.S. in 2011 with most of his family, Jawdat says China refused to give his mother a passport and is now threatening her safety and that of remaining family members to try to end his public protests—an incredibly effective strategy local officials have used to silence overseas Uyghurs in recent years.
"The unabated oppression that the Uyghur community faces at the hands of China is a stain on the conscience of the world," she said. “[They’re] basically being redistributed across China proper where they kind of disappear off the radar because the spotlight is on Xinjiang at the moment,” Joanne Smith Finley, an expert on China and the Uyghur identity at Newcastle University, told Newsweek. She added that many people are sent to high-security prisons where they're “kept in shackles the whole time.”Radio Free Asia confirmed the transfer of detainees to other provinces in February.
On February 6, 2018, Jawdat says he received a message from his mom saying she was going away again and "she doesn't know if she can come back or when she can come back. And then she was crying from beginning to end." "Fear, absolute fear. Terror, trauma, people crying in the streets once they realized that I knew the ‘situation,'" she said."I've never seen it like that ever." Most of Smith Finley's contacts wouldn't even take her calls and only two would meet with her—agreeing to do so only if it was after sundown and they kept moving while they spoke.
U.S. efforts have achieved littleSecretary of State Mike Pompeo may have described China's practices in Xinjiang as"Orwellian" several times during April, but his department has yet to make any public indications about sanctioning officials involved in human rights abuses. Activists believed sanctions would be forthcoming in December but were left disappointed, with many experts believing the trade talks have taken priority in the Trump administration.
"The Communist Chinese government is committing crimes against humanity as it detains over a million Uyghurs and other religious and ethnic minorities in so-called ‘re-education’ camps and expands its Orwellian high-tech surveillance state in Xinjiang,” Rubio told Newsweek.
"This is a drop in the ocean of course,” Smith Finley said. “It's very easy for China to discredit the U.S. right-wing politicians by saying, 'They don't really care about human rights, they don't really care about the Uyghurs at all, they only care about their trade war with us and they only care about containing China.
This picture taken on June 26, 2017 shows police patrolling as Muslims leave the Id Kah Mosque after the morning prayer on Eid al-Fitr in the old town of Kashgar in China's Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region. The increasingly strict curbs imposed on the mostly Muslim Uighur population have stifled life in the tense Xinjiang region, where beards are partially banned and no one is allowed to pray in public.
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