Chinese government continues program of genocide against Uyghur Muslims

by Karen Faulkner, Worthy News Correspondent

(Worthy News) – The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) continues a genocidal program against the Uyghur Muslim minority community in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), the Genocide Watch human rights organization reported earlier this month. Xinjiang is home to 12 million people, most of whom are Uyghur Muslims.

Determining that Uyghur Muslims represent a “religious extremist” threat to its power and control of communist China, in the 1990s, the CCP launched the
“Big Development of the Northwest Plan” to replace Uyghur Muslims with millions of Han Chinese in Xinjiang, Genocide Watch reports. With that Plan in action, the CCP had confined 800,000-2,000,000 million Uyghurs in concentration prisons it refers to as “re-education camps.” Having been “re-educated,” the Uyghurs are forced to work harvesting cotton and other Chinese export products as modern-day slaves.

The CCP’s Plan involves a sophisticated, systemic effort to erase the Uyghur community altogether. “Uyghurs are forced to participate in CCP indoctrination programs in which detainees are forced to abandon their Muslim faith and culture,” Genocide Watch explains in its report. “The CCP forbids use of the Uyghur language and imposes Mandarin Chinese within these camps. Inside camps, CCP officials subject Uyghurs to physical beatings, sexual assault, and gang rapes of women.”

“State-sponsored forced inter-racial marriages between Uyghur women and Han Chinese men are part of “family planning” policies, as are female sterilizations, forced abortions, mass rapes, and sexual torture,” the Genocide Watch report continues. “The CCP forces Uyghur women to live with Han Chinese men in Uyghur homes. The CCP forcibly removes Uyghur children from their homes and places them in residential schools where they are forbidden to speak the Uyghur language, a violation of Genocide Convention Article 2e. Chinese government’s family planning program restricts Uyghur and Turkic Muslim reproduction, preventing births in violation of Article 2d of the Genocide Convention.”

Warning of Genocide and calling on the international community to take immediate action, Genocide Watch said in a statement: “The CCP’s torture and imprisonment of Uyghurs into “re-education camps” is Stage 8: Persecution; the mass rape of women inside and outside these camps and CCP removal of Uyghur children is Stage 9: Extermination in violation of the Genocide Convention. The CCP’s denial of its acts of genocide are stage 10: Denial.”

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