An investigative report released by the BBC recently revealed that women held in Chinese detention camps in Xinjiang were raped, gang-raped and tortured, sparking an international outcry. The Chinese Communist Party has denied the report, calling it a “baseless smear campaign. But Kazakhs who were detained in the camp for 11 months have come forward to confirm that the reports are true, saying that beautiful Uyghur women are not safe from the clutches of the devil.
Dina, from Nilek County in Xinjiang and now a citizen of Kazakhstan, was held in a detention camp for 11 months from October 2017 to September 2018. Today (February 5) she told Radio Free Asia that she knows Tursun A. Zawudun (also known as Zia), who was gang-raped three times, as mentioned in the BBC report. Ziyawudun, also known as Tursunay Ziyawudun, is a true story: “The Uighur (Tursunay) has met, she 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, she couldn’t get a refugee certificate from Kazakhstan, and she got scared, and she wanted to talk about it here, but she didn’t have the opportunity.”
She explained that she is now a citizen of Kazakhstan, so she is not afraid.
Dina also confirmed that she witnessed a number of beautiful young Uyghur women being bullied while she was detained in the detention camp: “Beautiful Uyghur women are subjected to that what …… 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 sent back. But from that day on, this little 20-year-old girl didn’t say anything, didn’t eat, didn’t talk. She was dazed by herself and didn’t say anything.”
She said she was imprisoned with 12 Uighurs, eating and urinating and defecating in a small room, and that they were given a weekly meal of flour mixed with garlic and soy sauce. During this Time, many of the women had to give up their dignity and socialize with leaders in the camp in order to survive.
When asked about the BBC report, Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said the report had “no basis in fact. The following day, Xinhua, a mouthpiece of the Chinese Communist Party, published a nearly 10,000-word article stating that “some Western anti-China forces have perverted black and white, fabricated and disseminated a lot of false information about Xinjiang.
Dina’s testimony was a resounding slap in the face to the Chinese Communist Party. According to human rights organizations in Xinjiang, there are still several women victims of detention camps in Xinjiang who are waiting for the right time to reveal their experiences of rape.
In a statement released by the State Department one day before the end of the Trump administration, outgoing Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called China (the Chinese Communist Party) guilty of “genocide and Crimes Against Humanity” in Xinjiang.
Kazakh scholar Rais Khan told Radio Free Asia: “The U.S. government defines the Chinese government as committing genocide in Xinjiang, not because of a few cases to confirm it, but as a systematically researched fact, which the war-wolf diplomats of the Chinese Foreign Ministry have always denied and fought a war of words, and then found a few civil servants or peasants from Xinjiang as actors to deliver some speeches against the views of Western governments, how good Life is, and other false propaganda.”
World Uyghur Congress spokesman Dilishati told the radio station that the CCP’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 aware of this ethnocidal policy that the Chinese (Communist) government is pursuing against the Uighur people.”
State Department spokesman Ned Price said on March 3, “We are deeply troubled by reports, including first-hand testimony, of systematic rape and sexual abuse of women in internment camps for Uighurs and other Muslims in Xinjiang.”
The spokeswoman reiterated the U.S. belief that China (the Chinese Communist Party) committed “crimes against humanity and genocide” in Xinjiang and said, “These atrocities shock the conscience, and (someone) must suffer serious consequences.”
She said China (CCP) should allow “international observers to immediately conduct an independent investigation into the rape allegations …… In addition, there should be an investigation into other atrocities taking place in Xinjiang.”
Nus Ghani, a Pakistani member of the British Parliament, said the latest horrific stories add to the evidence of atrocities committed by the Chinese government in Xinjiang. She called on the British government to give assurances that it will not deepen its relationship with China “in any way” until a full judicial inquiry into whether the Chinese Communist Party has carried out “genocide” in Xinjiang is concluded.
British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Nigel Adams told Parliament that “anyone who has seen the BBC report will inevitably be shaken and disturbed by the obvious evil that has been done.
Australian Foreign Minister Marise Payne called on the UN to be allowed to travel to Xinjiang as soon as possible to investigate.
Australian Senator Kimberly Kitching, a Labor member of the Senate, said the BBC report “documents the most horrific and disgraceful human rights abuses.
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