11-9-18
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Being born in the ‘80s and ‘90s can mean automatic detention - an official directive branded Uighurs from those decades as “members of an unreliable and untrustworthy generation” and targets them for reeducation because they are “susceptible” to be influenced by extremism. https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/china-uighur-gulag-muslim-internment-13557717
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11-8-18 The report said that various administrative departments, enterprises from the central government and military departments, including the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps and Xinjiang Armed Police Corps, have made over 49 million visits to local residents. The number of activities themed “ethnics unite as a family,” held by these departments, reached more than 11 million. https://supchina.com/2018/11/08/peoples-daily-on-forced-homestays-in-xinjiang/
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But Xinjiang’s party chief Chen Quanguo is determined to press ahead. Chen, a Han Chinese whose iron-fisted approach to stopping Buddhists from self-immolation won praise from Beijing during his tenure in neighboring Tibet, said at a recent meeting that the home visits and living-together policy as well as the re-education camps for Uighur families must continue at all costs. http://www.atimes.com/article/party-members-told-to-live-with-uighurs-for-social-cohesion/
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Bad news. Amina, who had been breastfeeding her child when the alarm was sounded, was late. She had let them down and they would have to repeat the exercise but this time under the eagle eye of an army major, detailed in for just these eventualities. Things looked bad for this little battalion.
The People’s War on Terror in China’s northwest region of Xinjiang has been gathering momentum incrementally since Chen Quanguo took over as Communist Party secretary of the troubled area two years ago. Things moved up a notch this summer in the southernmost province of Hotan. In addition to every butcher, baker and candlestick maker in the bazaar, who now have to dress like soldiers, all middle and high school pupils were suddenly ordered to join the swelling ranks of other combat-ready citizens. With the beginning of a new term it was goodbye to the multicolored headscarves and tartan skirts for girls and tracksuits for boys and hello to army camouflage for everyone. From this term onward, skirts have joined the list of banned clothing for schoolgirls.
Not content to leave warfare to the professionals alone, Chen, fresh from the Tibet where he made a serious attempt to knock dissenters into shape, has increasingly been militarizing every citizen in Xinjiang, preparing them to fight a foe which has yet to present itself, but which he maintains will appear at any moment….
Stepping out of line, a blurred line whose boundaries are ill defined, could lose you your freedom, your children, your family and even your life itself. With estimates of more than 1 million Uyghurs now languishing in re-education camps, the vast majority of which come from the southernmost districts of Xinjiang, Chen’s people’s war on terror is coming of age. The naan-sellers and small traders still left in Hotan wait in terror for their own time to come. Until then they continue to don their uniforms, participate vigorously in military drills, attend the weekly flag-raising ceremonies and keep their mouths shut, praying hard that the knock on the door at dead of night is for their neighbor and not themselves. https://thediplomat.com/2018/11/xinjiang-life-during-a-peoples-war-on-terror/
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US$2.89 billion was spent on building security facilities in China’s far western region of Xinjiang last year as authorities implemented a controversial re-education camp programme, a new study has estimated….According to Adrian Zenz, a specialist on the region from the European School of Culture and Theology in Germany, the region spent 58 billion yuan (US$8.3 billion) on domestic security in the year, with nearly three-quarters of the amount coming from the central government. Zenz also found that while spending on prosecutions in Xinjiang rose by 7 per cent and outlays on the court system fell 1 per cent, expenditure on prisons increased by 94 per cent, suggesting that many people could have been detained without trial. https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/2171990/security-spending-xinjiang-soars-china-rolls-out-re-education
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11-8-18 Several companies based in Northwest China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region signed multimillion-dollar-contracts at the China International Import Expo (CIIE), and business representatives see the Belt and Road initiative (BRI) injecting new impetus into local economic growth, which contributes to local social stability. The Xinjiang-based clean energy company TBEA signed deals worth nearly 1 billion yuan ($144.3 million) with Swiss engineering group ABB, German discrete semiconductor and passive element producer Vishay, German power transformer producer MR and Japan's Mitsubishi Group at the expo.
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-Chinese paramilitary police on patrol in Urumqi, capital of Xinjiang. : Goh Chai Hin/AFP/Getty Images
A senior official in Xinjiang has described mass internment camps for Muslim minorities as “training” and “boarding schools” where residents receive vocational, legal and language training as well as “de-extremisation education”. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/oct/16/internment-camps-make-uighurs-life-more-colourful-says-xinjiang-governor
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