CHINA’S SECRET GENOCIDE

Posted by Taryn Woody
August 5, 2020

“Never again” came sooner than expected.

Kidnapped by their oppressive government, religious minorities are carted from their homes and held inside political prisons, where they are indoctrinated, tortured, raped and experimented on. This is not Nazi Germany. This is Communist China, where up to 2 million Muslims currently reside inside concentration camps, the largest mass incarceration of an ethnic group since the Holocaust.

Most of these Muslims are Uyghurs (also spelled Uighur) and hail from the western Xinjiang province, which borders Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. For decades, China has oppressed Uyghurs and other Muslim ethnic groups through government-sanctioned cultural annihilation and violence, and new evidence suggests China’s actions have progressed from oppression to genocide. However, as escapees share their stories and concentration camps are uncovered throughout Xinjiang, Beijing buys silence and support from international leaders.

THE HISTORY OF XINJIANG

Home to half of all Chinese Muslims, Xinjiang has a total population of more than 21 million, 45 percent of which are Muslim and fall into three main ethnic groups—Uyghur, Kazakh or Hui. Uyghurs make up the majority of Xinjiang Muslims, totaling around 11 million. While Xinjiang is technically an autonomous region, China allows its citizens little to no independence from Beijing.

Read the full article at The Baines Report