{"id":1816,"date":"2020-08-17T14:59:13","date_gmt":"2020-08-17T05:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yuzb.net\/en\/?p=1816"},"modified":"2020-08-17T14:59:13","modified_gmt":"2020-08-17T05:59:13","slug":"the-worlds-most-technologically-sophisticated-genocide-is-happening-in-xinjiang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yuzb.net\/en\/2020\/08\/17\/the-worlds-most-technologically-sophisticated-genocide-is-happening-in-xinjiang\/","title":{"rendered":"The World\u2019s Most Technologically Sophisticated Genocide Is Happening in Xinjiang"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The United States needs to formally acknowledge the scale of the atrocities.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>BY\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/rayhan-asat\/\">RAYHAN ASAT<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/yonah-diamond\/\">YONAH DIAMOND<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0JULY 15, 2020, 3:38 PM<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two recent disturbing events may finally awaken the world to the scale and horror of the atrocities being committed against the Uighurs, a mostly secular Muslim ethnic minority, in Xinjiang, China. One is an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/jamestown.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Zenz-Internment-Sterilizations-and-IUDs.pdf?x60014\">authoritative report<\/a>\u00a0documenting the systematic sterilization of Uighur women. The other was the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/fff5fc7925f09916bf6b9d5f79bb4132\">seizure<\/a>\u00a0by U.S. Customs and Border Protection of 13 tons of products made from human hair suspected of being forcibly removed from Uighurs imprisoned in concentration camps. Both events evoke chilling parallels to past atrocities elsewhere, forced sterilization of minorities, disabled, and Indigenous people, and the image of the glass display of mountains of hair preserved at Auschwitz.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/en\/genocideprevention\/documents\/atrocity-crimes\/Doc.1_Convention%20on%20the%20Prevention%20and%20Punishment%20of%20the%20Crime%20of%20Genocide.pdf\">Genocide Convention<\/a>, to which China is a signatory, defines genocide as specific acts against members of a group with the intent to destroy that group in whole or in part. These acts&nbsp; include (a) killing; (b) causing serious bodily or mental harm; (c) deliberately inflicting conditions of life to bring about the group\u2019s physical destruction; (d) imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; and (e) forcibly transferring children of the group to another group. Any one of these categories constitutes genocide. The overwhelming evidence of the Chinese government\u2019s deliberate and systematic campaign to destroy the Uighur people clearly meets each of these categories.Trending Articles<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/distroscale.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/apps.distroscale.com\/51b70607adbf1cfc\/FP%20logo%202.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Finland Has a Plan for Russia\u2019s Little Green Men<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Training films reveal how to sell a complicated fight to a conscript army.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure><iframe src=\"https:\/\/c5x8i7c7.ssl.hwcdn.net\/vplayer-parallel\/20200614_0850\/videojs\/show.html?controls=1&amp;loop=30&amp;autoplay=0&amp;tracker=38dbd4b5-a65e-47f2-b073-85c402e5e987&amp;height=362&amp;width=643&amp;vurl=%2F%2Fa.jsrdn.com%2Fvideos%2Fdgv%2F20200817050552_5f3a0f0c8078c%2Fdgv_foreignpolicy_20200817050552_new.mp4&amp;poster=%2F%2Fa.jsrdn.com%2Fvideos%2Fdgv%2F20200817050552_5f3a0f0c8078c%2Fdgv_foreignpolicy_20200817050552_new.jpg\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i.jsrdn.com\/i\/1.gif?r=0zhf&amp;k=ZQljawlhCTEyMjUJZAl1cy13ZXN0LTJhCWgJaS0wNTc2YmMyNzdkNTJkMDY1Ywl1CTk4Y2U2ZmM0LWYxODgtNDhmOS1iNTAxLTNhMzY5ZGE5NmU2Nwl2CTEyMzRkMTZmLWQ5MTctNDVlYS1hNmM4LTZlOWNlZjJhNjhmNwl2bAkyMDIwMDgxNy4wNTI5CXZ0CTIwMjAwODE3LjA1MjkJdnMJMjAyMDA0MDcJdmMJMjAyMDAxMjUJc3QJMjAyMDA4MTcuMDU1NDQ3CWkJMzhkYmQ0YjUtYTY1ZS00N2YyLWIwNzMtODVjNDAyZTVlOTg3CWYJaHR0cHM6Ly9mb3JlaWducG9saWN5LmNvbS8yMDIwLzA3LzE1L3VpZ2h1ci1nZW5vY2lkZS14aW5qaWFuZy1jaGluYS1zdXJ2ZWlsbGFuY2Utc3RlcmlsaXphdGlvbi8_ZmJjbGlkPUl3QVIwalVGOU9rdEhURXhjVGwycWlxWi1UVkxqLV9jdXotbHU2cG5kbWlwN3lNOWhhdVFUa1VRUnBjaWsJcQlkZjgzY2E3Yi1iNTFiLTRmM2ItYmE2NC04NTQ4NDMwZGRlYTgJbQkyMjM0MgliCTI2MglnCTQxMAl0CTUxOTQJYwk1MjQ4CWwJODUwNwl6CTc5MjMJcwkzMTAyCXAJMjI0MjAJdwluZXdzCWdjCUpQCWdyCTQwCWdkCTAJZ24JQ2FibGUvRFNMCW5lCWl2CW5kCWl2CXNkCWZvcmVpZ25wb2xpY3kuY29tCXNlCTU4NDYwMjE3MjQJbmYJaXYJcXAJNTAJcXQJMjUwMAlwbgk0MQl2bgkxNDY4NjEz&amp;fwd=%2F%2Fwww.distro.tv%2F%3Futm_source%3Ddstream%26utm_medium%3Dchiclet%26utm_content%3Dchiclet%26utm_campaign%3Ddtv_dstream\">Powered By&nbsp;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over a million&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/global-opinions\/a-spreadsheet-of-those-in-hell-how-china-corralled-uighurs-into-concentration-camps\/2020\/02\/28\/4daeca4a-58c8-11ea-ab68-101ecfec2532_story.html\">Turkic Uighurs<\/a>&nbsp;are detained in concentration camps, prisons, and forced labor factories in China. Detainees are subject to military-style discipline, thought transformation, and forced confessions. They are abused, tortured, raped, and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.state.gov\/reports\/2018-country-reports-on-human-rights-practices\/china-includes-tibet-hong-kong-and-macau-china\/\">even killed<\/a>. Survivors report being subjected to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2018\/11\/28\/begged-kill-uighur-woman-describes-torture-us-politicians\/\">electrocution<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/asia_pacific\/former-inmates-of-chinas-muslim-re-education-camps-tell-of-brainwashing-torture\/2018\/05\/16\/32b330e8-5850-11e8-8b92-45fdd7aaef3c_story.html\">waterboarding<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/61cdf7f5dfc34575aa643523b3c6b3fe\">repeated beatings<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/6e151296fb194f85ba69a8babd972e4b\/Chinese-mass-indoctrination-camps-evoke-Cultural-Revolution\">stress positions<\/a>, and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/av\/world-asia-51097159\/the-kazakh-muslims-detained-in-china-s-camps\">injections of unknown substances<\/a>. These mass detention camps are designed to cause serious physical, psychological harm and mentally break the Uighur people. The&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180813115300\/http:\/www.kashi.gov.cn\/Government\/PublicInfoShow.aspx?ID=2851\">repeated<\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2019\/11\/16\/world\/asia\/china-xinjiang-documents.html\">government orders<\/a>&nbsp;to \u201cbreak their lineage, break their roots, break their connections, and break their origins\u201d; \u201cround up everyone who should be rounded up\u201d; and systematically prevent Uighur births demonstrate a clear intent to eradicate the Uighur people as a whole.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/05\/09\/us\/politics\/china-uighurs-arrest.html\">Ekpar Asat<\/a>&nbsp;(brother of one of the present authors) is an emblematic example of how Uighurs are targeted regardless of their recognition as model Chinese citizens by the Communist Party. Asat was praised by the government for his community leadership as a \u201cbridge builder\u201d and \u201cpositive force\u201d between ethnic minorities and the Xinjiang local government. But Asat still suffered the same fate as over a million other Uighurs and disappeared into the shadows of the concentration camps in 2016. He is held incommunicado and is reported to be serving a 15-year sentence on the trumped-up charge of \u201cinciting ethnic hatred.\u201d Not a single court document is available about his case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2017, Xinjiang&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/jamestown.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Zenz-Internment-Sterilizations-and-IUDs.pdf?x60014\">waged<\/a>&nbsp;a brutal \u201cSpecial Campaign to Control Birth Control Violations,\u201d along with specific local directives. By 2019, the government&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/jamestown.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Zenz-Sterilizations-IUDs-and-Mandatory-Birth-Control-FINAL-27June.pdf?x71937\">planned<\/a>&nbsp;to subject over 80 percent of women of childbearing age in southern Xinjiang to forced intrauterine devices (IUDs) and sterilization. The goal is to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2020\/07\/01\/china-documents-uighur-genocidal-sterilization-xinjiang\/\">achieve<\/a>&nbsp;\u201czero birth control violation incidents.\u201d Government documents&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/jamestown.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Zenz-Sterilizations-IUDs-and-Mandatory-Birth-Control-FINAL-27June.pdf?x71937\">reveal<\/a>&nbsp;a campaign of mass female sterilization supported by state funding to carry out hundreds of thousands of sterilizations in 2019 and 2020. This goes far beyond the scale, per capita, of forced sterilization inflicted on women throughout China under the past one-child policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To implement these policies, the Xinjiang government&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/jamestown.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Zenz-Internment-Sterilizations-and-IUDs.pdf?x60014\">employed<\/a>&nbsp;\u201cdragnet-style\u201d investigations to hunt down women of childbearing age.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>To implement these policies, the Xinjiang government&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/jamestown.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Zenz-Internment-Sterilizations-and-IUDs.pdf?x60014\">employed<\/a>&nbsp;\u201cdragnet-style\u201d investigations to hunt down women of childbearing age.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;Once apprehended, these women have no choice but to undergo forced sterilization to avoid being sent to an internment camp. Once detained, women&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/jamestown.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Zenz-Internment-Sterilizations-and-IUDs.pdf?x60014\">face<\/a>&nbsp;forced injections, abortions, and unknown drugs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And statistics show that the government is meeting its birth prevention goals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Between 2015 and 2018, population growth rates in the Uighur heartland&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2020\/07\/01\/china-documents-uighur-genocidal-sterilization-xinjiang\/\">plummeted<\/a>&nbsp;by 84 percent. Conversely, official documents show that sterilization rates&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/jamestown.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Zenz-Sterilizations-IUDs-and-Mandatory-Birth-Control-FINAL-27June.pdf?x71937\">skyrocketed<\/a>&nbsp;in Xinjiang while plunging throughout the rest of China, and the funding for these programs is only increasing. Between 2017 and 2018, in one district, the percentage of women who were infertile or widowed increased by 124 percent and 117 percent, respectively. In 2018, 80 percent of all IUD placements in China were performed in Xinjiang despite accounting for a mere 1.8 percent of China\u2019s population. These IUDs can be removed only by state-approved surgery\u2014or else prison terms will follow. In Kashgar, only about 3 percent of married women of childbearing age gave birth in 2019. The latest annual reports from some of these regions have begun omitting birth rate information altogether to conceal the scale of destruction. The government has shut down its entire online platform after these revelations. The scale and scope of these measures are clearly designed to halt Uighur births.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With Uighur men detained and women sterilized, the government has laid the groundwork for the physical destruction of the Uighur people. At least half a million of the remaining Uighur children have been&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/12\/28\/world\/asia\/china-xinjiang-children-boarding-schools.html?&amp;te=1&amp;nl=morning-briefing&amp;emc=edit_nn_20191229?campaign_id=9&amp;instance_id=14846&amp;segment_id=19927&amp;user_id=846ef9ce39fc43f2738ba5abf4ec0810&amp;regi_id=89748364_nn_20191229\">separated<\/a>&nbsp;from their families and are being raised by the state at so-called \u201cchildren shelters.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What makes this genocide so uniquely dangerous is its technological sophistication, allowing for efficiency in its destruction and concealment from global attention. The Uighurs have been suffering under the most advanced police state, with extensive controls and restrictions on every aspect of life\u2014religious, familial, cultural, and social. To facilitate surveillance, Xinjiang operates under a grid management system. Cities and villages are split into squares of about 500 people. Each square has a police station that closely monitors inhabitants by regularly scanning their&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/report\/2018\/09\/09\/eradicating-ideological-viruses\/chinas-campaign-repression-against-xinjiangs\">identification cards<\/a>, faces, DNA samples, fingerprints, and cell phones. These methods are supplemented by a machine-operated system known as the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/news\/2019\/05\/01\/interview-chinas-big-brother-app\">Integrated Joint Operations Platform<\/a>. The system uses machine learning to collect personal data from video surveillance, smartphones, and other private records to generate lists for detention. Over a million Han Chinese watchers have been installed in Uighur households, rendering even intimate spaces subject to the government\u2019s eye.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>READ MORE<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2020\/07\/01\/china-documents-uighur-genocidal-sterilization-xinjiang\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/GettyImages-813182596-e1593612667904.jpg?w=800&amp;h=544&amp;quality=80\" alt=\"Uighur children joke as they taunt a local police officer in Xinjiang\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2020\/07\/01\/china-documents-uighur-genocidal-sterilization-xinjiang\/\">China\u2019s Own Documents Show Potentially Genocidal Sterilization Plans in Xinjiang<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ethnic minorities are being targeted by family planning departments as reproduction restrictions loosen on Han Chinese.<a href=\"https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/category\/analysis\/argument\/\">ARGUMENT&nbsp;<\/a>|&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/adrian-zenz\/\">ADRIAN ZENZ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Chinese government operates the most intrusive mass surveillance system in the world and repeatedly denies the international community meaningful access to it. It is therefore incumbent on us to appreciate the nature, depth, and speed of the genocide and act now before it\u2019s too late.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Recognizing or refusing to name this a genocide will be a matter of life or death. In 1994, by the time U.S. officials were done debating the applicability of the term to the situation in Rwanda, nearly a million Tutsis had already been slaughtered. A document dated May 1, 1994, at the height of the genocide, by an official in the Office of the Secretary of Defense&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/archive\/2001\/09\/bystanders-to-genocide\/304571\/\">stated<\/a>: \u201cGenocide finding could commit [the U.S. government] to actually \u2018do something.\u2019\u201d Four years later, President Bill Clinton stood before Rwandan survivors and reflected on his administration\u2019s historic failure and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/text-of-clintons-rwanda-speech\/\">vowed<\/a>: \u201cNever again must we be shy in the face of the evidence.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With the passing of the Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act, the U.S. government has begun to take steps in the right direction to avoid another human catastrophe. Seventy-eight members of Congress have&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rubio.senate.gov\/public\/index.cfm\/2020\/7\/rubio-menendez-mcgovern-smith-lead-bipartisan-bicameral-letter-on-chinese-government-atrocities-in-xinjiang\">followed up<\/a>&nbsp;with a call for the administration to impose Magnitsky sanctions on the responsible Chinese officials and issue a formal declaration of the atrocity crimes, including genocide. So far, the administration has officially&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/07\/09\/world\/asia\/trump-china-sanctions-uighurs.html\">imposed<\/a>&nbsp;Magnitsky sanctions on four Chinese officials and an entity in charge of the Orwellian surveillance system and responsible for the expansion of the internment camps in Xinjiang. The U.S. government must now make an official determination of genocide. This will not be difficult, as U.S. State Department spokesperson Morgan Ortagus has already&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/statedeptspox\/status\/1280129232966955009?s=21\">asserted<\/a>&nbsp;that \u201cwhat has happened to the Uighur people \u2026 is potentially the worst crime that we have seen since the Holocaust.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A formal declaration of genocide is not simply symbolic. It will catalyze other countries to join in a concerted effort to end the ongoing genocide in Xinjiang. It will also prompt consumers to reject the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspi.org.au\/report\/uyghurs-sale\">over 80 international brands<\/a>&nbsp;that profit off genocide. Furthermore, the determination will strengthen legal remedies for sanctioning companies that profit from modern slavery in their supply chains sourced in China and compel business entities to refrain from profiting from genocide and commit to ethical sourcing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In our interconnected world, we are not only bystanders if we fail to recognize the genocide as we see it. We are complicit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States needs to formally acknowledge the scale of the atrocities. 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