A re-Education camp in Artux City, Xinjiang, China, June 2, 2019, where millions of ethnic Uyghurs are believed to be illegally held in such camps.
Following the BBC’s recent report that it has been banned from China for reporting on the rape and other sexual abuse of Uyghur women in Xinjiang concentration camps, Bitter Winter magazine reported Feb. 12 that Uyghur men and believers such as Falun Gong were also victims of sexual abuse.
Bitter Winter reports (link) that the BBC story is not an occasional abuse, and that the Uyghur women who bravely came forward to testify denounced the “rape Culture” that prevailed in the camps, where the Chinese Communist Party used sexual abuse to destroy the faith and self-esteem of female prisoners. Moreover, the entire process of sexual abuse was secretly monitored by senior Communist officials. In the camps, female inmates were used as tools of desire by Communist officials and prison guards.
The U.S., British, and Australian governments have cited BBC reports condemning the CCP’s atrocities and abuse of women in Xinjiang, and other governments, international agencies, and leaders have also condemned the CCP’s atrocities.
Chill provided evidence of the BBC’s reporting through exclusive videotapes shot in the camps, and spent several hours reviewing its content after its program aired. The website said, “We received praise for our article and the BBC report from Chinese ‘education’ camps and former prisoners through a number of regular channels. Some women who never had the courage to testify with their real names have told us that they are considering doing so.”
These victims believe that the horrific scenes of rape and torture depicted in the BBC program are not just happening to Uighur and Kazakh women in Xinjiang. Women followers of banned religious movements such as the Almighty God religion and Falun Gong have also been raped. The CCP uses forced conversion and sexual abuse to degrade their faith, but these women of faith are spread throughout China and have a strong will that the Communist Party cannot destroy.
Even men are not immune. The report reveals that many Kazakhs abroad have joined “Chill” in calling for the Communist Party to reveal atrocities about how male prison guards raped male prisoners in Xinjiang concentration camps. They said sexual abuse of males in the camps was also a regular occurrence, with young boys not spared.
The Chill says they have interviewed a number of male victims, including ethnic Kazakhs and those who provided testimony for the BBC report. They acknowledged that in Kazakh society and among the diaspora, it is difficult to admit to being raped by someone of the same sex. It may lead some friends and relatives to believe they are homosexuals and are ostracized by society.
Some of those who were sexually assaulted in the Xinjiang concentration camps did tell Kazakhstan and other human rights movement organizations about their experiences, but were not authorized to do so because it might reveal personal information about them, according to the report. Until some of the men who were raped testify with their names, surnames and details of their detention, the Communist Party will surely deny that sexual assaults on male inmates occurred in the camps’ so-called “rehabilitation,” just as they have denied doing the same to female inmates even after being accused with solid evidence. But “Chill” notes that those who tell these stories are telling the truth, which is satisfying.
Fox News interviewed Tursenay Ziawudun, a woman who has appeared on the BBC show, who revealed that “the way they tortured these girls and even boys, it was like treating animals.” And emphatically, “Even boys.” .
Woman who disclosed rape arrives in U.S.
Gulzira Auelkhan, who recently spoke to the BBC about mass rape in a Xinjiang detention camp, arrived safely in the United States with her Family on February 9, according to the U.S.-based Christian human rights organization ChinaAid.
Auelkhan, an ethnic Kazakh woman born in Xinjiang who moved to Kazakhstan in 2014, was arrested by Communist authorities in 2017 while visiting her family in China, forged her confession and held her in a Xinjiang detention camp for 18 months, according to RFI.
In a February 2 BBC report, Awal Khan publicly accused Uighur women held in Xinjiang detention camps of being systematically raped, sexually abused and tortured by foreign Han Chinese men or staff. She forced the detained Uyghur women to strip and handcuff them, and then left them alone in rooms with unknown men. When the man left the room, she would take the woman to shower and clean the room, Awal Khan said.
According to the BBC, several survivors and former staff members of the Xinjiang detention camp also confirmed the sexual atrocities that took place in the camp.
According to China Aid, the secretary of the Yining County Party Committee in Xinjiang once claimed that Awal Khan would receive 250,000 yuan in compensation if she remained silent about the sexual atrocities that occurred in the Xinjiang detention camp, but Awal Khan refused.
The U.S. State Department told RFE/RL that the U.S. found the CCP guilty of Crimes Against Humanity and genocide in Xinjiang, and this will not change. These atrocities by the Chinese Communist Party are shocking and will face serious consequences, and the U.S. will consider measures to hold the perpetrators accountable.
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