“Break their lineage, break their roots, break their connections and break their origins.”

11-8-18     The centres should "teach like a school, be managed like the military and be defended like a prison", said one document, quoting Xinjiang's party secretary Chen Quanguo.  To build new, better Chinese citizen out of Uighurs, another document argued, the centres must first break their lineage, break their roots, break their connections and break their origins.         These chilling words are stated in an internal document, reported by news agency AFP, and encapsulate Beijing’s policy towards its ethnic Uyghur minority.  At the United Nations Human Rights Council, Beijing rejected criticism of its practice of interring ethnic Uyghurs in indoctrination camps in the Xinjiang province as “politically driven.”    https://international.thenewslens.com/article/107767

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-Shohrat Zakir, chairman of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, describes the mass internment of ethnic minority Muslims as a system of training centres. Photograph: AP/Ng Han Guan

  10-19-18       “No amount of spin can hide the fact that the Chinese authorities are undertaking a campaign of systematic repression in the XUAR with up to one million people arbitrarily detained,” said Patrick Poon, China researcher at Amnesty International.  “The mass internment camps are primarily places of punishment and torture, not learning.  There are consistent reports of beatings, food deprivation and solitary confinement,” he said.  https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/asia-pacific/west-trying-to-smear-china-over-xinjiang-detention-centres-newspaper-1.3669304

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11-15-18       23 of her family members — including her aunt, her brothers, her cousins — have disappeared, along with tens of thousands of other ethnic Uyghurs inside enormous state-controlled “re-education camps.”  Hoja, who works as a journalist for US government-funded Radio Free Asia (RFA), says her brother was the first in the family to vanish in September 28, 2017....

 in 1953 Han Chinese accounted for just 6% of Xinjiang’s total population of 4.87 million, while Uyghurs made up 75%.  By the year 2000 the Han Chinese population had grown to 40%, while Uyghurs had fallen to 45% of the total population of 18.46 million.  http://www.uyghurcanadian.ca/how-china-is-tearing-thousands-of-uyghur-families-apart-in-xinjiang/

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