Education Camp Survivor Comes Forward to Refute Chinese Official Media
U.S. and British media reported on Wednesday that a Uighur woman, Tursun A. Zawudun, was raped three times during her detention at a mainland re-education camp in Xinjiang. The Chinese Foreign Ministry immediately responded by calling Western media fabrications and the interviewee an “actor. In response, Dina, a Kazakh who knows Tursun Aye, said in an exclusive interview with the station on Friday that Tursun Aye’s husband is Kazakh and her personal experience is true: “The Uighur (Tursun Aye) has met, she just came to Kazakhstan and then went to the United States. What she said is true, she is also from Ili Xinyuan County. When she was in Kazakhstan, she didn’t talk about that incident because she didn’t have a household registration in Kazakhstan and couldn’t get a refugee certificate from Kazakhstan, so she was afraid, and she wanted to talk about it here, but she didn’t have the opportunity. We are now citizens of Kazakhstan, so we are not afraid.
Young and beautiful Xinjiang woman can’t escape from the clutches
Dina is from Nilek County, Xinjiang, and is now a citizen of Kazakhstan. She says she was detained in a local “education camp” and witnessed many beautiful young Uighur women being bullied: “All the beautiful Uighur women are subjected to that. She now has no uterus (removed). Another young Uyghur girl was 20 years old and she was taken away that night at nine o’clock and then in the morning when we got up, she was returned. But from that day on, this little 20-year-old girl didn’t say anything, didn’t eat, didn’t talk. She froze by herself and didn’t say anything.”
Kazakh woman Dina was detained in an educational camp in Xinjiang for 11 months.
Dina was detained inside the education camp for 11 months from October 2017 to September 18. She said she was in a cell with 12 Uyghurs, eating and defecating in a small room, and they were given a weekly meal of flour mixed with garlic and soy sauce. During this period, many women had to give up their dignity in order to survive: “Later when we were in the party school (converted education camp), many of the women dated the (education camp) leaders.”
Communist Party Official Media Accuse the West of Smearing China
On Thursday evening, Xinhua, the official media of the Communist Party of China (CPC), published a nearly 10,000-word article, saying that “some anti-China forces in the U.S. and the West have reversed black and white, created something out of nothing, concocted and spread a lot of false information related to Xinjiang, smearing the image of the CPC, discrediting the CPC’s policy of governing Xinjiang, interfering in China’s internal affairs, trying to deceive the international community and interfere with the stable development of Xinjiang.
In response to the CCP’s official criticism of foreign media, Kazakh scholar Rais Khan told the station, “The U.S. government defines the CCP government as committing genocide in Xinjiang, not because of just a few cases to confirm, but a fact confirmed after a systematic study. The war-wolf diplomats of the CCP Foreign Ministry never deny and fight a war of words, and then find a few civil servants from Xinjiang or peasants as actors to make some speeches against the views of Western governments, how good Life is, and other false propaganda.”
Guards stand at the gate of what is officially known as a vocational skills education center in Huocheng County, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, mainland China, Sept. 3, 2018.
Xinhua said the Xinjiang-related issues are not ethnic, religious, or human rights issues, but anti-violence and anti-secession issues. It also strongly denied the existence of forced sterilization in Xinjiang. It also denied the establishment of “re-education camps” and the detention of millions of Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang.
World Uighur Congress spokesman Dilishati told the station Friday that the Chinese government’s aim is clear: “It is to cover up the truth and use diplomatic and officially controlled media to spread lies and mislead the international community. The reports of the objective and unbiased media and the testimonies provided by the victims have once again made the international community recognize this ethnocidal policy being pursued by the Chinese Communist government against the Uighur nation.”
Why did the official media not mention the Kazakhs?
In response to the Chinese Communist Party‘s big move to deny that Uyghurs are being treated inhumanely, few official Chinese Communist Party reports of Kazakhs being sent to educational camps or sentenced to prison have been publicly refuted. One of the reasons Rais Khan believes this is because “Kazakhs exposed the genocide in Xinjiang in Kazakhstan and in other countries around the world as real people, and the victims themselves or their families exposed the CCP’s crimes on the basis of individual cases of victimization, so the CCP’s Foreign Ministry does not dare to deny the fact that Kazakhs were subjected to genocide in Xinjiang.”
According to human rights organizations in Xinjiang, there are still a number of women victims of Xinjiang re-education camps who are waiting for the right Time to expose their experiences of rape. Scholar Rais Khan said many minority women are often reluctant to speak out about their rape experiences because of their personal dignity.
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