What does totalitarian mean?

9-13-2018   China pushed forward the state view that Islam is "an ideological illness" that must be more than just criminally prosecuted but pathologically cured….The majority of those interned have been men, and the Chinese authorities have supplemented the disproportionate incarceration of men with a policy forcing Uighur Muslim women to marry (non-Muslim) Han men, further diluting the Uighur Muslim population and entrenching Han hegemony….Big Brother would be a severe understatement, as Chinese authorities in Xinjiang have enlisted virtually anybody and everybody inside of Uighur Muslim communities to partake in the project of uprooting Islam….

  Within the walls of orphanages where "[children] between the ages of six months and 12 years are locked up like farm animals" Chinese authorities carry out what is perhaps the crux of their ethnic cleansing program: engineering an entire generation of Uighur Muslims to turn their back on their parents, religion and culture, in favour of the atheism, Mandarin language and Han customs privileged by Beijing--in turn stripping the Uighur people from its very lifeline, its children and paving a pathway towards the utter decimation of 10 million Uighur Muslims and a nation that existed before the creation of the modern Chinese state.    https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/china-holds-million-uighur-muslims-concentration-camps-180912105738481.html
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7-3-2018  Memet had been detained for about a year at a detention centre in Aksu (Akesu in Chinese) Prefecture for exhibiting "religious extremism.”  Her son

Dolkun Isa, leader of the World Uyghur Congress (WUC) has been living in exile since 1994, and the last time she talked to her mother was a year ago.

  “Killing one’s mother to retaliate against her son’s peaceful human rights activism is the most cowardly form of retaliation by any authoritarian government,” Isa said.  Speaking about his father, “I don't know what he is going through at the hands of the Chinese government,” he said, noting that he “may also be in a detention camp.”   http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Xinjiang:-Children-of-Uyghur-deportees-locked-in-orphanages-44332.html

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11-7-2018    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 Uighur minority....

  Beijing’s strategy of breakage is also happening outside of the re-education camps, using tactics ranging from city planning to intrusive homestay visits that have atomised Uighur communities....In an Orwellian twist the state is effectively replacing Uighur family members with state-approved “uncles” and “aunties”.  These are one million government workers, many of them Han Chinese, “assigned as relatives to Uighur villagers for [an] ethnic unity campaign”, in the words of the Global Times....

  The Islamic practice of zakat, or giving or receiving alms has been used as a reason to send people for re-education.  Nurmuhammad Majid, a Uighur living in Adelaide, described his own experience:  "From 2005 to 2009 I used to send my religious obligation charity – zakat – to my home country.  And the ones who received the funds were charged, stating ‘You have received money from an overseas separatist’."...

  Beijing’s re-engineering of Uighur culture appears to be so thorough, and so advanced, it is hard to imagine what forces could halt it.  Every aspect of Uighur life--the food eaten, the clothes worn, the words spoken--have been targeted, and Beijing’s response to the Human Rights Council shows that it does not fear international opprobrium.  https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/China-re-engineer-uighur