China's war on Uighur Culture

[sandeep]

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2020/10/chinas-war-on-uighur-culture/616513/

 

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How do you protect a culture that is being wiped out?

For Uighurs, this is more than just a hypothetical. Repressive measures against the ethnic minority have progressively worsened: the Chinese government has corralled more than 1 million of them into internment camps, where they have been subjected to political indoctrination, forced sterilization, and torture.

The targeting of the Uighurs isn’t limited to the camps: Since 2016, dozens of graveyards and religious sites have been destroyed. The Uighur language has been banned in Xinjiang schools in favor of Mandarin Chinese. Practicing Islam, the predominant Uighur faith, has been discouraged as a “sign of extremism.”

Beijing frames these moves as its way of rooting out terrorism, separatism, and religious extremism. But the aim of China’s actions in Xinjiang is clear: to homogenize Uighurs into the country’s Han Chinese majority, even if that means erasing their cultural and religious identity for good. What is taking place is a cultural genocide.

 

[kepler37b]

It's a war between two totalitarian ideologies.

Edited October 4, 2020 by kepler37b

[chewy]

The silence or lack of action of "Islamic" Republics is poignant but not surprising.

 

When China imposed extradition laws in HK, all the white English speaking nations condemned China, US imposed some sanctions, UK went as far as offering citizenship to millions of HK citizens.

 

Nothing from Pakistan, Turkey or Saudis for Uighur.

 

Also interesting no protests from Uighurs themselves unlike the pro-democracy protestors in HK. Maybe Uighur freedom, culture and tradition isn't valued as strongly by them as HK value freedom.

 

 

 

 

[coffee_rules]

Middle East countries deported exiled Uighurs to China: Report

 

This was also shown in BBC World News today

 

Some Uighur Muslims who fled China and sought refuge in Middle Eastern countries have been arrested and deported, a BBC report has claimed.

BBC's Newsnight said it identified multiple cases of exiled Uighur students and pilgrims being targeted by authorities in Muslim-majority countries - including Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Egypt - in collaboration with Beijing.

One Uighur woman told the BBC she had not seen her husband in five years after he was arrested and deported to China while performing the Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia.

"Our children have become fatherless. We have been left on our own," said the mother-of-five 

[zen]

There is a #BoycottMulan movement too 

 

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