China’s Foreign Ministry and official media have frequently hit back at Western media reports on human rights issues related to Xinjiang, saying that “anti-China forces in the U.S. and the West have perverted black and white and fabricated false information about Xinjiang to smear China”. The recent reports in the Western media are true cases and not rumors.
U.S. and British media reported on Wednesday that a Uighur woman, Tursun A. Zawudun, had been detained in a re-Education camp in Xinjiang, China. The Chinese Foreign Ministry immediately responded to reports in the U.S. and U.K. media on Wednesday that a Uighur woman, Tursunai Zawudun, had been raped three times while in detention at a re-education camp in Xinjiang, China, accusing the Western media of fabricating rumors and calling the interviewee an “actor. In response, Dina, a Kazakh who knows Tursunai, said in an exclusive interview with the station on Friday that Tursunai’s husband is Kazakh and her personal experience is true: “The Uighur (Tursunai) 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.”
Dina was held in 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 Time, 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.”
Chinese official media accuses the West of smearing China
On Thursday evening, the Chinese official media Xinhua News Agency published a nearly 10,000-word article, saying that “some anti-China forces in the United States and the West have reversed black and white, created something out of nothing, concocted and spread a lot of false information about Xinjiang, smearing China’s image, discrediting China’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 Chinese official criticism of foreign media, Kazakh scholar Rais Khan told the station, “The U.S. government defines the Chinese Communist 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 Chinese 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.”
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 that there is 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 impartial media and the testimonies provided by the victims have once again made the international community aware of this ethnocidal policy that the Chinese government is pursuing against the Uighur nation.”
Why didn’t the official media mention the Kazakhs?
In response to China’s big move to deny that Uyghurs are being treated inhumanely, few Chinese officials have publicly refuted reports of Kazakhs being sent to educational camps or sentenced to prison. Rais Khan believes one reason for this is that “the Kazakhs’ exposure of the genocide in Xinjiang in Kazakhstan and other countries around the world is a real-life story, and the victims themselves or their families are exposing the CCP’s crimes on a case-by-case basis, so the CCP’s Foreign Ministry does not dare to deny the fact that Kazakhs in Xinjiang have been subjected to genocide.”
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 reveal 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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