{"id":1344,"date":"2020-01-22T21:22:52","date_gmt":"2020-01-22T12:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yuzb.net\/en\/?p=1344"},"modified":"2020-01-22T21:26:49","modified_gmt":"2020-01-22T12:26:49","slug":"the-language-of-the-uighur-holocaust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/yuzb.net\/en\/2020\/01\/22\/the-language-of-the-uighur-holocaust\/","title":{"rendered":"The Language of the Uighur Holocaust"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

https:\/\/thewire.in\/communalism\/china-uighur-holocaust?fbclid=IwAR1v5vdxyjFze5RNJhg5t7kfoxBUdi0ujbMU9qvhYvrOHTp-_SGrkdS_usI<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Satellite images and clandestine video footage of watchtowers, concrete barracks and barbed-wire perimeters conform to the prison aesthetic described by Jewish Holocaust survivors. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The recent leak of Chinese Communist Party documents to the New York Times<\/em><\/a> offers a chilling glimpse into the 21st century\u2019s largest system of concentration camps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A million Uighurs and other Muslim minorities are now detained in a Chinese operation that combines the forced labour and re-education of Mao-era laogai<\/a> with the post-9\/11 rhetoric of the \u201cwar on terror.\u201d US President Donald Trump\u2019s Muslim ban<\/a>, border camps<\/a> crowded with migrant children and America\u2019s global archipelago of so-called black sites<\/a> detaining terror suspects deserve condemnation. So too do the concentration camps of the world\u2019s newest superpower.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Retina scans, DNA databanks<\/a> and facial recognition technology<\/a> are now ubiquitous across China\u2019s Xinjiang province. They are modern-day updates to earlier surveillance technologies like Soviet internal passports.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

KGB tactics<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Satellite images and clandestine video footage of watchtowers, concrete barracks and barbed-wire perimeters conform to the prison aesthetic described by Holocaust survivor Primo Levi<\/a> and Russian labour camp detainee Alexandr Solzhenitsyn.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n