Nobody Safe From Persecution By Chinese Regime, Says Family of Beloved Uyghur Comedian Adil Mijit Says

April 4, 2019

In addition to Mjit, other Uyghur intellectuals and cultural figures in Xinjiang have also been reported missing by family overseas. The Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) said in a January report (PDF) that at least 338 Uyghur intellectuals and cultural figures have been “interned, imprisoned, or forcibly disappeared” by the CCP since April 2017.

The crackdown is “part of a coordinated effort to undermine and eliminate a distinct Uyghur identity as rapidly as possible in an unprecedentedly aggressive forced assimilation campaign,” the UHRP said.

Louisa Greve, Director of External Affairs at the UHRP told The Epoch Times that the CCP has long worked to quash the “emergence of independent sources of solidarity, like church groups or community activities” so that it can stay in control.

It is an “attempt to change their thinking so they would never dare to believe in their religion, but rather the ‘normal,’ which means conforming to a perfect ideal of absolute loyalty to the party,” she said of the People’s Republic of China.

“It just shows you that your fame is no protection against being targeted or disappeared into a camp,” UHRP senior researcher Henryk Szadziewski told The Epoch Times, referring to Mijit’s disappearance.

“You can also say that whatever strategies were in place in the past of either promoting government policies, or keeping quiet about government policies, this is no longer sufficient for keeping you out of a camp or from being disappeared or imprisoned.”

Read the full article at The Epoch Times.