Recently, several new accounts have popped up on overseas social networking sites (YouTube) with videos of Uyghurs and Kazakhs describing how wonderful Life is for their people and how they can move freely. Overseas human rights organizations tell us that these videos are part of the CCP’s “grand foreign propaganda” to mislead people outside of China and spread false information about Xinjiang.
At a Time when the international community is condemning the CCP for violating Uyghur human rights in Xinjiang and imposing sanctions accordingly, social media platforms such as the oil pipe channel have recently seen a sudden increase in videos from Xinjiang’s ethnic minorities depicting their lives, including Uyghurs and Kazakhs, recounting the beauty of their lives in the region. A Uyghur woman named Ayituna said, “Hello, I am Ayituna, today I talk to you about a more private topic for women, some netizens asked me before, saying Guli, although I am called Ayituna, but many netizens still like to call me Guli ……”
In response, Dirishati, a spokesman for the Germany-based World Uyghur Congress, told the station this Wednesday (24) that the organization had noticed that the oil pipeline channel was being used to spread false information in order to cooperate with the Beijing government’s response to international pressure: “The Chinese government, in response to international pressure, is using its official monopoly of media resources to spread false information, while using diplomatic channels to cooperate with official disinformation in an attempt to distort the facts about the systematic persecution of local Uyghurs by the Chinese Communist Party.”
Left: Uyghur woman Ayituna introduces the audience to her living customs. Right: A Kazakh herder Family in Xinjiang claims to have 10,000 mu of pasture and swallows and bird’s nests inside their house on the mountain. (Video screenshot/Provided by Qiao Long)
Another Kazakh girl, Aidaei, is in the video, showing its freedom of movement in Xinjiang: “Today we are going to Xinjiang Yili, Zhaosu County, we are still on the road, some places are still repairing the road, the sun has gone down ……” , another Kazakh introduced the local like a fairyland, the family has more than a hundred horses, and some families have more than 10,000 acres of pasture; a herder’s Home with apples, milk tea, dried fruit and other Food.
Without official permission, it is extremely difficult for the general Xinjiang people to upload the video on the wall
Speaking to Radio Free Asia, Serkjian, founder of the Kazakh civil society organization Atajulte Volunteers, said that the oil pipe is blocked in China and that ethnic minorities are forbidden to wall up foreign websites: “There are dozens of people registered on those channels, and they have been posting videos for months, and some of them have 20 or 30 views, and the oil pipe cannot be opened at all in China. These are the propaganda of the Chinese Communist Party against foreign countries, as if these Kazakhs and Uyghurs are living a very fulfilling and free life, who can be fooled?”
Dina, a Kazakh businesswoman living in Kazakhstan, told the station that in her hometown of Yili, Xinjiang, local students are required to go to the village committee after graduation to record videos extolling the beauty of life in Xinjiang and have them sent to websites outside the country: “Many university students have to take these videos when they go home. The village committee has a WeChat group that sends these videos inside the group, and it is not they (the filmmakers) themselves who send them to offshore websites, they just send them inside the group, and then the state cadres send them (offshore). They don’t know that their videos are on live.”
LEFT: A Kazakh herder’s family has 150 horses, which indicates a rich life, according to Khaza, a Kazakh. Right: Botha says to go to the county to buy food, indicating freedom of movement. (Video screenshot/Provided by Qiao Long)
Big foreign propaganda disinformation is hard to believe
Kazakh Chinese scholar Rais Khan said that the CCP’s foreign propaganda is pervasive and that these videos praising the lives of Xinjiang’s ethnic minorities are believed to have been officially curated and then posted to websites outside the country. He told the station that the people in the videos are officially appointed performers: “At the moment, major democracies around the world are condemning the Communist Party’s atrocities in Xinjiang. Kazakhs and Uighurs, the victims of Xinjiang’s atrocities, are protesting around the world, but the Chinese Communist Party’s war-wolf diplomats say there is no such thing, and then, their United Front Work Department gets these actors to come out and go around saying Xinjiang is good.”
Rais Khan said that if Xinjiang is really as good as the people in the video portray it, and the ethnic minorities can live in peace and happiness, why does the Chinese government prohibit foreign independent agencies from going to Xinjiang to start investigations, and why are overseas media reporters not allowed to go to Xinjiang for independent interviews: “These concentration camp victims abroad, the people who experienced it, the concentration camp teachers, they are telling the truth. These Chinese officials can’t deny the facts, so they find ways to cover it up.”
While Beijing has consistently denied the existence of human rights violations in Xinjiang, there is growing evidence that the basic freedoms of local minorities are being harshly suppressed. On Monday, the European Union, the United Kingdom, Canada and the United States joined forces on the same day to sanction Chinese officials and institutions over the Xinjiang issue.
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