-Hotan Kindness Kindergarten, like many others, is a high security facility

9-21-2018    Chinese authorities are putting the children of Uighurs and other ethnic minority groups into dozens of state-run orphanages across the western Xinjiang region even if their parents are not dead, as some 1 million adults in their families are sent to internment camps.  The orphanages are the most recent manifestation of Beijing’s efforts to systematically distance young Muslims in Xinjiang from their families and culture.  Uighurs fear such efforts are erasing their ethnic identity, one child at a time.   https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/china-uighurs-human-rights-muslims-orphanages-xinjiang-province-reeducation-a8548341.html

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-Hotan Kindness Kindergarten, like many others, is a high security facility

7-4-2019       a rapid, large-scale campaign to build boarding schools is under way.  Formal assessments are carried out to determine whether the children are in need of "centralised care".  Alongside the efforts to transform the identity of Xinjiang's adults, the evidence points to a parallel campaign to systematically remove children from their roots. ...

  "I don't know who is looking after them," one mother says, pointing to a picture of her three young daughters, "there is no contact at all."  Another mother, holding a photo of three sons and a daughter, wipes away her tears.  "I heard that they've been taken to an orphanage," she says.  In 60 separate interviews, in wave after wave of anxious, grief-ridden testimony, parents and other relatives give details of the disappearance in Xinjiang of more than 100 children. ...

  In just one year, 2017, the total number of children enrolled in kindergartens in Xinjiang increased by more than half a million.  And Uighur and other Muslim minority children, government figures show, made up more than 90% of that increase.  As a result, Xinjiang's pre-school enrollment level has gone from below the national average to the highest in China by far.           https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-48825090

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7-7-19     

  One software engineer, whose work at Huawei appears to

give him “enormous control over access to user and provider

data,” is simultaneously employed as a teacher and

researcher by the National University of Defense Technology

in China, a top institution run by the Chinese

military, officially known as the People’s Liberation Army,

the study found.  The study hypothesized that the employee’s

tasks fall under the PLA branch that oversees

“Chinese military space, cyber and electronic warfare

capabilities.”

  In another case the study (by Christopher Balding, an associate professor at Fulbright University Vietnam, conducted with the UK-based think tank Henry Jackson Society,) found a Huawei employee who described himself on his CV as a “representative” of the Ministry of State Security, China’s top intelligence agency.  Among the responsibilities listed on his CV was “building lawful interception capability into Huawei equipment,” which suggests that his role at the company included “planting information capture technology or software on Huawei products,” according to the study.     https://www.theepochtimes.com/huawei-employees-have-deep-links-to-chinas-military-and-intelligence-study-finds_2992271.html

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