Following the BBC’s allegations of mass rape of women in re-Education camps in Xinjiang, CNN cited three ethnic minority women from Xinjiang who have now fled abroad as saying that women in re-education camps were tortured, gang-raped and other abuses.
Qelbinur Sidik, an Uzbek elementary school teacher who grew up in Xinjiang, told CNN that on her first day as a teacher at an education camp, she saw two soldiers carrying the body of a young Uighur woman outside on a stretcher.
A female camp police officer told her the girl died of heavy bleeding, but did not give a reason. The policewoman said she had been assigned by her superiors to come and investigate rape cases and had revealed to Hidik that male police officers often bragged about it.
“The male officers would brag to each other over drinks at night about how they raped and abused the girl,” Hildick said.
Hidik said she was assigned to teach “illiteracy” at two re-education camps in March 2017, when the new camp had about 100 men and women with “chained feet and hands.” She described how young inmates arriving at the camps, seemingly able-bodied and bright-eyed, would soon be tortured to the point of illness and even death. She said screams often echoed from the camp, and when she asked the police why, a male officer told her a prisoner was being tortured.
Another woman, Tursunay Ziyawudun, told the media she had no criminal record at the Time she was detained when she returned to Xinjiang in 2017 to process official documents after moving to neighboring Kazakhstan with her Kazakh husband, Halmirza Halik, for a long time since 2012. Ziaudun was released after one month, but was recalled in March 2018 to begin her nine-month-long nightmare.
Ziaudun revealed that she was once taken to another room by two female officers after being beaten and ordered to lie on a table where “they inserted a taser into me and twisted it at will and tasered me and I passed out.”
Ten days later, Ziawdun was taken out of her cell by male police officers when she heard a girl screaming in the next room and saw five or six men come into that room. “The next thing I knew, I was being gang-raped, and it was clear to me right away that the police officers in the next room were doing the same thing to the girl.” Ziaudun said, adding that this happened several times during her time in the detention camp. Last year Ziaudun was sent to the United States for treatment and a hysterectomy.
The BBC sparked a global outcry in early February when it revealed systematic sexual abuse in the Xinjiang concentration camp. Ziaudun also told the BBC that women in the camps were subjected to unexplained medical examinations, given medication, forcibly injected every 15 days with a “vaccine” that caused adverse reactions such as nausea and paralysis, and forced to have birth control devices inserted into their bodies. The Associated Press has also reported that forced sterilization of Uighurs is common in Xinjiang.
The Chinese government has denied these allegations, refuting the “genocide” narrative and claiming that there are no re-education camps in Xinjiang. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin criticized the BBC’s report as factually incorrect and unfounded, and said the interviewees were actors.
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