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byAugust 7, 2020 at 5:00 amCrimes against humanity that meet the UN definition of genocide are being inflicted by Chinese troops on their Turkic Uyghur minority in the so-called Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. Charges include torture, forced sterilization and hair shaved from inmates and made into commercial products. Pictured: Chinese soldiers stand in formation in front of the Id Kah Mosque in Kashgar, the westernmost urban oasis in China's portion of the historic and commercially significant "Silk Road," on July 31, 2014. (Photo by Getty Images)The Chinese Communist Party's chairman, Xi Jinping, and his colleagues on the ruling Politburo, have, it seems, decided on the final solution for China's ethnic Uyghur Muslims. All who have seen the internet in Xinjiang of hundreds of blindfolded, male prisoners, sitting in silence, hands tied behind their back while ringed by Gestapo-like guards must shudder at the similarity in China of masses of prisoners being marched off to concentration camps.Crimes against humanity that meet the UN definition of are being inflicted by Chinese troops on their Turkic Uyghur minority in the so-called Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. Charges include , and and made into commercial products. Last month, US Customs seized and other "beauty products" worth approximately $800,000 "from Uighurs in camps."The most detailed description of the brutalities visited upon the Uyghurs by Han Chinese thugs was revealed by U.S.-based lawyer and Uyghur activist , who claimed that Uyghur detainees in China have had fingernails pulled out, were subjected to electric shocks, and were sexually assaulted.The black-uniformed SS-types seen in the film are simply executing the murderous will of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The Chinese script on the black uniforms of guards appears to identify them as being associated with a in the Kashgar (Kashih). Kashgar is the westernmost urban oasis in China's portion of the historic and commercially significant "Silk Road."The "Silk Road," originally a medieval thoroughfare of trade, people, and ideas, consisted of a network of oases throughout Xinjiang. Perhaps a principal reason that explains, in part, Beijing's determination to pacify the province is China's seeming hope to dominate Eurasian overland commerce. That goal would require a peaceful Central Asia, including Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.It is likely that other internment camps for Xinjiang's Uyghurs and perhaps ethnic Kazakhs are located in other oasis cities such as Urumqi, Turfan, Khotan, and Yarkand.For decades, the CCP prime directive regarding Xinjiang was best characterized by the propaganda slogan "." In reality, this slogan is a euphemism for the total assimilation of Xinjiang's approximately ten million Uyghurs, Kazakhs, and other smaller Turkic minorities. In the final decades of the 20th century, Han Chinese were for settling in this largest of China's 31 provinces. Uyghurs, many of whom were CCP regulars and members of Xinjiang's intellectual elite, were once tolerated, but now are no longer trusted. Some, like the former President of Xinjiang University , have been arrested and accused of being "two faced" betrayers of China. Many Uyghurs have been plucked from their families and forced to work in where they are becoming part of Xinjiang's growing urban manufacturing class, producing items for companies that are suppliers for "international tech giants such as Apple and Lenovo."As more of China's majority ethnic Han citizens migrated to Xinjiang, , tensions developed between the two groups. This animosity led to a series of on their Han Chinese neighbors. After , it seems that the government quickly lost hope of achieving the CCP objective of assimilation. Beijing appears to have decided that the assimilation project had lost impetus and that more young, Muslim Uyghurs were becoming radicalized. Harmonious optimistic propaganda slogans such as "Develop the West," "Scientific Development," and "Building a Material Civilization" soon gave way to "." The CCP may also have believed that there was enough evidence of Western and Central Asian-based Islamic groups rendering assistance to independence-minded Uyghurs. The Trump Administration's appointment of , a Uyghur-American, to the White House National Security Council's China Desk must give the CCP little comfort. Uyghur diaspora activists usually refer to Xinjiang as Eastern Turkestan. In fact, there were two periods in the last century when there existed East Turkestan Republics, and .At some point, the CCP made the decision to accelerate Sinicization of Xinjiang's Uyghur population by force. Reports of arrests and surfaced. It is a capital offense for any citizen to encourage the crime of "splitism," promoting a province of China separate from the whole. Historically, powerful Chinese dynasties, such as the Western Han, Tang, and Yuan (Mongol) and Qing (Manchu), controlled . When weaker dynasties governed China, the desert herders and oasis farmers of Xinjiang returned to their independent and tribal networks. The CCP dynasty seems powerful enough to keep tight control of Xinjiang for the foreseeable future as the Chinese state's repressive machinery appears to be proceeding with speed and efficiency at once again expunging a culture and possibly a people.Dr. Lawrence A. Franklin was the Iran Desk Officer for Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld. He also served on active duty with the U.S. Army and as a Colonel in the Air Force Reserve.© 2022 Gatestone Institute. All rights reserved. The articles printed here do not necessarily reflect the views of the Editors or of Gatestone Institute. No part of the Gatestone website or any of its contents may be reproduced, copied or modified, without the prior written consent of Gatestone Institute.Get Free Exclusive Gatestone Content:Recent Articles byKevin •Assuming everything this article alleges to be true, what policy implications can be drawn from that? Remember, during WW2, the US and Britain allied with Stalin--the butcher of Ukraine and mass-murderer. Because we correctly viewed Hitler as more dangerous.China did not send suicide bombers to create a 9/11 attack. Political Islam did that. The article treated political Islam as a side issue, as if that religiou/political identity were benign.Sure, China's methods could be improved. I have written an article to that effect.James •Chinese soldiers 'standing in formation' is a deja vu moment for me from our Silk Road tour in June 2010.We visited Uyghurs homes and the famous Xinjiang Museum in Urumqi. We had a surprising experience at the Museum relevant to how things have gone so badly since.As we entered the Museum, at the adjacent square as locals prepared for the first day of the DRAGON BOAT HOLIDAY gathering.The square was empty at this point.But a couple hours later as we exited the Museum the scene changed dramatically as busloads of Chinese soldiers showed up. They marched in single file into the square and stood in formation until they left no room for any gathering. This unprovoked military action was obviously intended to send a message of coercion and brute force by denying the Uyghers any public holiday gatheringWhy such military interference in the lives of Uyghur Muslims?Chinese officials told us the Uyghurs hold "extremist and separatist ideas," undoubtedly traced to their Islamic culture.But torture, prisons and concentration camps will not change the deeply held religious beliefs of 11 million Uyghur citizens. Dehumanizing coercion will create resentment and deeper desire for revenge. This is the history of the world.Jean •It really is time to stop trading with China until they behave like decent human beings. I don't think we knew how bad it was until recently. Or I did not.Wallace •A real but predictable tragedy. A reaction to the fanatics of radical Islam who, for the past twenty years have murdered, raped, enslaved, and pillaged those that had the temerity to disagree with them.Brian Ozzy •I couldn't agree more except that the past 1400 years is more apt as a time line. A couple of histories of islam I have read lately showed an almost unbroken continuation of murder, pillage and stolen lands. I feel for the Uyghurs as a people though of course the Sunni and Shia Muslims do not consider them as true Muslims. The Uyghurs and the Muslims in Myamar are, sadly for them, getting a taste of what their religion has been dishing out to other countries for hundred of years.Hamish MacDonald •A provocative article, but no mention of forced abortions, by the representatives of the government many of which actually occurred on the kitchen table. This went on for years.The west has turned a blind eye.Henry •Typical communist strategy. Stalin has practiced the same approach murdering enslaved minorities in Gulags, changing ethnicity of certain territories. Nothing is new under the Moon.Alan •The world doesn't seem to care about the Falun Gong who have been persecuted in China for decades just like the Uighurs now. Not to diminish these injustices, but Islam and Muslims always seem to get much more sympathy from the West. One thing for certain is that the two totalitarian systems are causing huge worldwide problems.Surdey •What about Muslims wiping out Christians and other non-Muslims in the Middle East, Pakistan, and Africa ? Nobody sees it ?dia tsung •@ Surdey They *do* see it. I talked to my United Methodist pastor about it, and he plead ignorance. I sent him a link from the Gatestone Institute on this very subject, and his response was "let's talk about it". I declined because I had already sent him a fact-filled email and there was nothing left to discuss.There will be no official response either from the Catholic Church or from Protestant churches on the subject of Muslim persecution and murder of our fellow Christians. Coptic, Maronite, Assyrian Christians and others are all on their own. Europe refuses to grant refugee status to Christians.Someday, perhaps the world will call the heads of our churches to account, but I doubt that day will ever come.The church at Nantes was burned out by a Muslim Rwandan refugee who had been given a job there, but the chances are asymptotically small that he will ever be prosecuted or punished by the state, or sued by the Catholic Church for his acts of arson and vandalism.Non-response is the template which is being followed by both Church and State. It is open season on Christians and has been for years now, and in many cases these poor souls can have no place to either run or hide.I stopped going to church, and I am thoroughly ashamed of the people who claim to be Christians leaders.Surdey •dia tsung many thanks for your answer. I am afraid you are 100% correct in your assumptions.Sylvia Drummond •Why doesn't China repatriate people whom they consider outsiders and undesirables? To torture and exploit them for monetary gain is truly barbaric.Raj •What China has been doing is borrowing the same methodology as Nazi Germany, they even use the same catch phrase: The Chinese need more breathing space -- just like Hitler said of Germany. The adoption of Marxist theory is more telling in that they feel a sense of kinship towards the Germanic sense of superiority and their own ambitions towards a technocratically elitist state. The Uyghurs are now stateless as much as where the Jews in Nazi Germany and who's to say that history never repeats! Friends one day, enemies the next!Shimrit Manning •China's important role in the Human Rights Council (which western countries together with a whole bunch of dictators from around the world, voted her in) will protect China's atrocities.Don Gaetano •Thank you Dr Franklin.Human rights violations for sure as we are aware is the practice of all totalitarian regimes.What caught my attention in this was the, "series of violent attacks by Uyghurs on their Han Chinese neighbors."So what exactly do we have here? Dueling totalitarian systems perhaps?Not to excuse behaviors on either side but I'm confused.I saw a video of a Uyghur family which looked like they were moderates talking about ethnic music and and dancing with no face covering on the women, head but no face covers.So here is a moderate group to be protected and assimilated into modernity my thought at the time. But here you write of "radicalization" and "violent attacks."Isn't it true that this group would be forced into fundamental Islam quickly and would not survive long if the majority of Islamic countries began helping them and moving in with them?China is guilty of atrocities for sure but holding any form of Islam seems to always lead to Sharia' in the end. So what do we do about that?Look around the world and where is all the unrest? Everywhere and in every place Islam lives in close proximity to secular societies or other religious groups, we see the pattern of unrest slowly or even rapidly emerge with percentage increase in the Islamic populations in the areas.In one sense, can't blame them. It is their "divine mandate" to subdue the entire world as they tell us constantly. We should believe them and be ready to contain them by any and all means necessary.If we don't, they will accomplish their task and bring a dark Islamic night on the entire world.To conclude: Rescue the Uyghurs with an international force at some point. But let's also be ready to save Western society and by extension the world from another totalitarian attempt to dominate it.Dangerous times and battles on multiple fronts and a very weak Europe. hope I live to see the victory of freedom and democracy against this latest onslaught of imperialism in plain sight against our people and freedoms.Thanks again for this information.dia tsung •Don Gaetano, You ask a question that the world would wish to silence. The world's leading fascist ideology goes unchecked under the guise of religion. Criticism of this ideology is forbidden in Europe and mass media is silent on the subject.Here in the US leftists and feminists are tight-lipped about an ideology which designates second class status to women, second class citizenship to Jews and Christians, and death or forced conversion to Buddhists, Hindus and others.An ideology such as this, which supports slavery, genital mutilation of women, amputation for theft, stoning to death for adultery, pedophilia, child - marriage, polygamy, religious intolerance, suppression of free speech, and the death penalty for apostates and gays cannot be openly criticized without incurring accusations of racism and intolerance. It is doubtful that any of this will change now or in the future.Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority, a Muslim political leader, seems to be the only voice supporting China's right to suppress the Uyghurs – could he be on to something?Alan •No, he just wants China to support his jhad against Israel and the US. He couldn't care less about the Uyghurs or the Palestinian people.ismail yurdakok •Thank you for this brave article and very true label "China's Genocide Machine in Xinjiang"Mike O'Neill •ChiComms Genocide Machine in . . . . China!Plans for exports to the entire world too.Get Free Exclusive Gatestone Content:by Majid Rafizadehby Majid Rafizadehby Majid Rafizadehby Peter Schweizerby Raymond Ibrahimby Guy Millièreby Peter Schweizerby Raymond Ibrahimby Amir Taheriby Majid Rafizadehby Guy Millièreby Khaled Abu ToamehTop IssuesThis website uses cookies to provide you with better services. To find out more, please review our .OK

byAugust 7, 2020 at 5:00 amCrimes against humanity that meet the UN definition of genocide are being inflicted by Chinese troops on their Turkic Uyghur minority in the so-called Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. Charges include torture, forced sterilization and hair shaved from inmates and made into commercial products. Pictured: Chinese soldiers stand in formation in front of the Id Kah Mosque in Kashgar, the westernmost urban oasis in China's portion of the historic and commercially significant "Silk Road," on July 31, 2014. (Photo by Getty Images)The Chinese Communist Party's chairman,...

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