The database contains more than two million users’ information, as well as a series of rapidly updated GPS location information, which is highly sensitive and almost impossible for ordinary private companies to access, and the location information is located in Xinjiang, a more reasonable assumption is that the movements of the Uyghurs are being secretly monitored by the authorities using high-tech means.
The Naked Database
｜A report in Ming Pao on February 27, 2019, quoted a Beijing source as saying that Chen Quanguo had given a military order to Xi Jinping in 2016 after he was transferred to Xinjiang, saying he would spend three years to completely change the security situation in Xinjiang. The three-year deadline is coming to an end, Xinjiang has been free of riots for two years, and the establishment of a vocational skills education and training center (re-education camp) has been recognized by the Communist Party’s top brass.
According to this report, Zhang Chunxian’s “flexible governance” strategy of vigorously developing Xinjiang’s economy during his tenure failed to effectively curb terrorist attacks and the deterioration of law and order, and Chen Quanguo took office and instead adopted a high-pressure stabilization model to deter the entire region, ignoring the economic damage it caused, but also making “no terrorist attacks” in the past two years. But it has also resulted in “no terrorist attacks” in the past two years, achieving “peace and stability” under high pressure.
｜In a podcast and an article on March 14, 2019, netizen @HumarHUMAR talked about how his mother, Saoranmu Talif, who had been a civil servant and outstanding Communist Party member in Xinjiang for decades, was also imprisoned in a concentration camp and disappeared along with his father. The family was not even officially notified of their disappearance, nor did they know what the reason for their imprisonment was.
HUMAR’s mother was also a member of the Party Committee of the Hami Municipal Committee during the Zhang Chunxian era, and was even involved in the “Visiting Huizhu” project, a former senior cadre who held important positions, but was inexplicably sent to a concentration camp during the Chen Guoquan era.
Huma HUMAR’s mother
｜The new version of the emblem of Xinjiang University also removes the element of “Tianshan” at the same time. The new version of the “Xinjiang University” emblem also removes the “Tianshan” element.
This was clearly a move to remove the ethnic consciousness of the Uyghur people, and the purpose was clear, as no other design changes were made to the emblem other than the removal of the “Uyghur” element.
Before and after versions of the school logo
｜In a 68-page report released on May 2, 2019, Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported that from January 2018 to February 2019, HRW reverse-engineered a cell phone app used by Xinjiang’s public security authorities to connect to an “integrated joint warfare platform,” which was the first full disclosure of the mass surveillance system. This is the first full disclosure of the mass surveillance system, which reveals that the Communist authorities are closely monitoring the movements of Xinjiang residents.
The Integrated Joint Operations Platform (IJOP), developed by China Electronics Technology Group Corporation (CETC), incorporates legitimate data on a large number of Xinjiang residents into its big data analysis for comprehensive surveillance and suspicious behavior prediction, and has developed a mobile terminal app that can be easily accessed by grassroots police. Cell phone terminal app, etc. It analyzes and monitors 36 types of “suspicious” behavior while collecting people’s personal data, including those who have just been released from “re-education camps,” do not deal with their neighbors, and suddenly return after being away from home for a long time.
Screenshot of the mobile terminal of the integrated platform system
｜Another WeChat travelogue article on June 25, 2019 touted the high-handed stability model in Xinjiang as bringing a strong sense of security to tourists, but the footage in this article shows how “abnormal” it is, and how the whole society is in a hypothetical defense mode at all times. The article was deleted shortly after it was published, although it did not contain any high-level blackness.
The author also mentions the complaint of a Xinjiang public official: “I once talked to a 90-year-old public official, who said he hadn’t had any rest for a month and got off work at 1:30 a.m. every day, and that the 996 boycotted by the mainland was too easy in their eyes.”
The so-called sense of security
｜On July 2, 2019, the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination said it had “credible information” that China was secretly imprisoning millions of Uighurs in “re-education camps” in Xinjiang. The “re-education camps” have been run by Xinjiang authorities since 2014 and culminated in 2017.
The news is ironic because China is also a signatory to the UN International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.
｜July 6, 2019 A BBC documentary on Xinjiang, “China, where are my children? shares their investigation: more than 60 parents who fled China have told stories of their children disappearing in Xinjiang, some of whom were likely also sent to concentration camps.
In front of the BBC cameras a Uyghur mother showed reporters a photo of her stepdaughter, a girl at a boarding school in Xinjiang, who was dressed in traditional Chinese clothes, and such scenes of Uyghur students in Chinese clothes did appear in the official media in 2017.
Uyghur girl in Chinese costume
｜On July 10, 2019 writer Wang Lixiong expressed a pessimistic view on the future of the Xinjiang issue in his opinion piece “Wang Lixiong: The Main Danger in Xinjiang”: the most dangerous change is when the ethnic issue becomes an ethnic issue, when it turns from political oppression to ethnic oppression ….. As with many things that change from quantitative to qualitative, there is a tipping point, before which there is room for redemption, and once it is passed, Xinjiang will fall into the kind of ethnic war between the Palestinians and the Israelis that has neither a way out nor an end in sight.
Wang Lixiong also mentioned that “the practice of putting people to death at every turn can deter them for a while, but it will not solve the conflict, but will instead accumulate hatred, which will sooner or later be triggered by unforeseen reasons and grow into a tree of terror without any buds – such as the July 5 incident in Urumqi in 2009. ” But after the July 5 Incident in 2009, it is clear that the Chinese Communist authorities have not learned any lessons and have “solved the problem in a monotonous and violent, stupid and self-righteous way.”
｜On August 3, 2019 The Reporter, in its cross-country pursuit of the truth, learned that the family of a Han victim is trying to contact international organizations to plead for help for her family members who were imprisoned and are now under house arrest, as well as for the Han community in Xinjiang who have also lost their freedom.
The testimony of this Han victim, Li Xin (a pseudonym), not only confirms the existence of Han victims in the re-education camps, but also brings to light for the first time the current situation in Xinjiang where Han Chinese are under severe surveillance.
｜On September 13, 2019 the U.S. Senate passed the Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act, which requires authorities to pay greater attention to human rights abuses in Xinjiang, as well as to sanction Chinese officials who violate the law.
｜ On June 17, 2020, President Trump signed the Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act of 2020 into law. China quickly issued a statement criticizing the U.S. for its brutal interference in China’s internal affairs and “strongly condemning and resolutely opposing it. “On July 22, the U.S. sanctioned four officials, including Chen Guanguo, secretary of the Communist Party Committee of Xinjiang, for involvement in major human rights abuses, to which Chen Guanguo commented “The people who sanctioned me are disgusting, and I am doubly honored by the sanctions.”
｜On September 21, 2019 an anonymous Youtube account shared a video taken aerially by a DJI drone showing a large number of Chinese Communist Party police officers transferring Uyghur prisoners (suspected) from their place of detention via train to bus somewhere in Xinjiang. However, the information provided in the video’s profile is extremely limited, and only speculation about the video’s content can be made.
A professional analysis suggests that the video was taken around August 18 at Kullu West Station (41.8202, 86.0176), and even provides a more professional scale analysis. This professional tends to believe that this is a unified transport from the Kashgar detention center to a concentration camp.
Screenshot of the video
｜On November 4, 2019, a former party media reporter shared his insights from a week-long tour of Xinjiang in 2018. Because of his “connections,” the author was met by higher-level aid cadres and thus got to see much more than the average tourist, and even learned about the power workings of some government agencies.
Although the author did not visit the “re-education camps” and is not able to do statistics, he believes that re-education camps exist and that this mode of rule with national oppression is unsustainable.
｜On November 16, 2019, the New York Times published a major report exposing more than 400 pages of internal Chinese government documents obtained, showing how authorities have opened and escalated detention and surveillance policies against ethnic minorities in Xinjiang over the past few years. The 403 pages of internal government documents come from a “whistle blower” within the Chinese political arena, and include about 200 pages of internal speeches by Xi Jinping and other officials on Xinjiang policy, about 160 pages of government instructions and reports on surveillance and control of the Xinjiang population, and more than 40 pages of internal investigations of some Xinjiang officials.
The documents have been handed over to the media by a number of overseas Uighurs, and their authenticity has been confirmed by a group of top experts and intelligence community sources. Key excerpts: After the 2014 Kunming train station terror attack, Xi Jinping’s speech on combating terrorism during his visit to Xinjiang laid the groundwork for policies such as re-education camps. 2016 saw the rapid expansion of re-education camps after Chen Quanguo became Xinjiang’s secretary and used Xi’s speech to support the detention camp policy. 2017 saw the CCP open at least 12,000 investigations against party officials in Xinjiang. This number is more than 20 times the number in 2016.
Selected document screenshots
｜On November 26, 2019, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) obtained internal Chinese government documents, known as “China messages,” through various overseas Uyghurs, detailing the oversight norms approved by senior officials in Xinjiang, while other intelligence documents reveal for the first time how the Chinese government is using big data and artificial intelligence to advance new forms of Other intelligence documents reveal for the first time how the Chinese government is using big data and artificial intelligence to promote a new form of social control, including the use of mass surveillance technology to obtain private information about individuals, and the ability of the government to make extensive interrogation and imprisonment lists in a short period of time.
According to Xinjiang expert Zheng Guoyen, “The documents show that from the beginning, the Chinese government has set clear norms for how to manage vocational education centers, how to ensure that ‘trainees’ are held in dormitories and that they spend at least one year in re-education camps. The year 2017 shown on the documents is also important because it confirms that the Chinese government began its re-education camp policy in Xinjiang in that year.” And four new briefings obtained by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists provide more details on how the Xinjiang government uses “integrated joint warfare platforms” to conduct mass surveillance.
｜On November 25, 2019 a Tik Tok user, @x_feroza, tweeted that he had been banned (for one month) for mentioning in a Tik Tok video what the Chinese Communist Party was doing to the Uyghur community in Xinjiang and calling attention to it. This also shows that Tik Tok is undergoing global content censorship beyond the borders of the Chinese internet.
The female user tweeted three videos that led to her ban, in which she mentioned the persecution of the Uyghur population in re-education camps and urged viewers to pay attention and spread the word to help them make a difference. An interesting detail is that the female user switched the topic to Xinjiang while pulling her eyelashes in all three videos.
Tik Tok account banned
｜November 29, 2019The Australian Strategic Policy Institute’s (ASPI) Centre for International Cyber Policy released a report on data on the global expansion of China’s technology industry, which shows that in addition to the well-known companies Hikvision and Dahua Technologies, companies with technology leadership in artificial intelligence and surveillance, such as Beijing Byte Jump and Huawei, are also focusing their development on providing security services to the government most typically providing assistance to Xinjiang authorities, leading to massive human rights abuses.
This report alleges that Chinese tech industries such as ByteTok, parent company of Jitterbug/TikTok, and Huawei have been closely involved in Chinese government surveillance of ethnic minorities in Xinjiang, and have pushed surveillance technology developed overseas.
｜On December 9, 2019 Voice of America reported, citing sources provided by four people with contacts in Xinjiang government departments, that the government is taking steps to tighten its control over the information by deleting data and destroying documents after documents related to the imprisonment of Uighurs and other Muslim minorities by Xinjiang authorities came to light.
Some sources, who chose to remain anonymous for fear of reprisals, said the Communist Party’s top brass had discussed how to respond to the information leaks at several meetings in Urumqi, ordering tighter control over internal information.
｜The Financial Times reported on December 23, 2019 that the Chinese government’s policy of promoting re-education camps in Xinjiang has forced thousands of Han Chinese businessmen and workers out of the city of Korla, dealing a serious blow to the economy of Xinjiang’s second largest city. The city of Korla has long been a stronghold for Han Chinese in Xinjiang, many of whom migrated there with the China National Petroleum Corporation.
The “stability maintenance” has also brought “spin-off problems”. Many people choose to leave the city of Korla because of the inconvenience it brings to their lives, with some interviewees saying, “We didn’t choose to leave because of the ‘instability’ of life in Korla. We left because of the stress in our daily lives. “
VII. 2020
｜From January to March 2020, China Digital Times collected two media bans on Xinjiang, one requiring the media to “refrain from reprinting or quoting foreign media comments on sensitive issues related to Xinjiang,” and the other requiring no retransmission or comment on the exposure of “documents related to Xinjiang.
Even during the January-March period when the new pneumonia epidemic was raging, the CCP propaganda department did not forget to issue instructions on Xinjiang, both of which called for the suppression of reporting and discussion of “sensitive issues” in Xinjiang.
｜On April 4, 2020, a Uyghur Weibo user, Sai Moumou, said he was in Shenzhen and not registered in Xinjiang, but had long been “taken care of” by police at the local police station, initially visiting every four days and later going to the police station once every four days to take pictures for the record. The police have recently made excessive demands to install surveillance in their homes.
The original post of this microblogger has been deleted, the original post also @ Shenzhen Public Security and other departments, apparently is intolerable has to be publicly voiced, there are many netizens on the Sai Moumou encounter sympathy, that this law enforcement behavior “disgusting to the extreme”.
｜In a video of a tour of the ruins of the old city of Kashgar taken in January, the youtuber boldly shared his thoughts on human rights issues and concentration camps in Xinjiang through the camera, while also relaying what he had learned about the re-education camps.
@AbuHaunted: (I learned from my minority friends) Xinjiang concentration camps don’t just hold Uyghurs, other ethnic groups are there ….. When I asked him some questions back he suddenly burst into tears because he told me someone finally noticed this, he always thought no one knew about it, he thought no one in the world knew about it, he thought they were forgotten by the world ……
｜A report published by the US news website Buzzfeed on August 29, 2020 revealed that they found by comparing satellite cloud maps and actual surveys that 268 new detention facilities have been built in the last three years in the Xinjiang region, indicating that the Chinese government is shifting from using existing facilities (schools, factories, etc.) to detain Muslim people in new places.
Of these 268 new places, 92 were identified as detention facilities through field survey visits or multiple other sources of information. 172 were concluded by comparing the neglected areas on Baidu maps with satellite cloud maps of the outside world.
Satellite map
｜September 25, 2020Even though the CCP’s re-education camps in Xinjiang have been condemned by the international community, President Xi Jinping emphasized at the third “Central Symposium on Xinjiang Work” that the CCP’s work in Xinjiang has proven to be successful and that the CCP’s “Party’s strategy for governing Xinjiang in the new era” is completely correct and must be adhered to in the long term. “is completely correct and must be adhered to in the long term.
Xi fully affirmed the CPC’s strategy for governing Xinjiang since 2014, and believes that such a model of re-education camps and ideological “de-extremism” work will need to be continued for a long time to come.
Xi Jinping: “The Party’s strategy for governing Xinjiang in the new era” is completely correct
｜While a press conference on the Kashgar outbreak was held in Xinjiang on October 26, 2020 to announce the movement of the first “asymptomatic infected person” (the Kashgar girl), some netizens found a detail unrelated to the outbreak: why did the girl return home only three times in more than a month, and each time her rest time at home was extremely short?
One possible explanation is that this is a sweatshop that not only employs underage 17-year-old girls but also gives them very little vacation time outside of work, while another explanation is that the girl’s labor is somehow mandatory and she is forced to complete such heavy work.
｜The novel is about a woman’s growth, escape and search for love against the backdrop of the July 5th Incident and the concentration camps, and many of the stories have tragic reality counterparts. The author is a Uyghur but a Uyghur. The author, who is a Uighur, chooses to tell the story in Chinese because she still has many memories of the warmth and harmony of the Han Chinese in her heart. But how can Uyghurs’ broken hearts be repaired after they have suffered so much tyranny and injustice?
@MordanKhan: lava-like blazing tears, grindstone heavy sighs that make my heart ache! The frightened looks, the stiff smiles pretending to be happy, the heart-stopping silence, the expectant eyes make me sleep and eat, and only by telling their stories can my conscience be at peace. The salvation of Banu is also the salvation of my soul.
The salvation of Banu
｜December 17, 2020 A new BBC study has revealed that China is forcing hundreds of thousands of Uighurs and other ethnic minority groups to perform hard physical labor in the vast cotton fields of the western Xinjiang region. The study also found that many of the re-education camps and are linked to neighboring factories and are located within a short distance of each other, suggesting that mass employment and detention are two goals that run in parallel.
Xinjiang contributes 85 percent of China’s cotton production and 20 percent of the world’s cotton production, and one document that came to light showed that 210,000 workers were sent to Aksu and Hotan regions “through labor transfers” when Xinjiang needed a large labor force to pick cotton in 2018, and that there was coercion in these “filled labor There is coercion to work in these “shortages”. In addition, many isolated re-education camps on the outskirts of the countryside have been found to be surrounded by factories in recent years, which is strong evidence of the link between “vocational re-education” and “forced labor.
Re-education camps built next to factories
VIII. 2021
｜On January 13, 2021, Gulbahar Haitiwaji, a Uyghur woman who had been living in France for more than 10 years, returned to Xinjiang for retirement procedures and was then detained in a re-education camp for three years. She is the first Uyghur to testify in France who escaped directly from a re-education camp in Xinjiang.
Gurbach, who has lived in France for more than a decade and whose daughter has French citizenship, was imprisoned in a re-education camp after returning to Xinjiang in 2016 at the request of her former unit to go through retirement procedures. In a 2018 New York Times report on China’s “conversion” of Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang by establishing a large number of detention camps, it was also reported that some Uyghurs were sent to re-education camps simply for returning to their home countries.
Gulbahar Haitiwaji’s public testimony
｜January 16, 2021A U.S. research firm has found a Huawei patent “that can identify Uyghurs among pedestrians,” which was originally filed in July 2018 with the Chinese Academy of Sciences, which also lists attributes that make a person a likely target for identification, including ” ethnicity (Han, Uyghur),” and one of the technical requirements of the Communist Party’s Ministry of Public Security’s video surveillance network is to detect ethnicities – specifically Uyghurs.
Although Huawei denies selling software to identify ethnic groups and has said that the technology is not designed to identify specific ethnic groups, there are indications that Huawei develops ethnic identification technology for use by the CCP.
｜A February 5, 2021 BBC report interviewed several Uyghur women who had been detained in “re-education camps” in Xinjiang and who claimed to have been sexually assaulted and raped. Tursunay Ziawudun, a Uyghur woman, said she was detained for nine months in 2018, during which she was tortured and gang-raped three times. Women in the re-education camp were taken from their cells “every night” and raped by one or more masked Han Chinese.
Several previous detainees and a guard revealed that they had experienced or seen evidence of mass rape, sexual abuse and torture. The report has sparked global attention, with the U.S., Britain and Australia pressuring China on human rights issues in Xinjiang. There are many Chinese netizens who are also implicitly discussing and spreading the word.
｜In an article published in Huaxia Digest in 2008, a retired central government cadre recalled some of his feelings about the sharp ethnic and religious conflicts in Xinjiang after a work-related trip there in ’91. During a conversation with a senior Uyghur official, the other party cited examples of inequality between the Chinese and Uyghur peoples, especially the famous “Gao Xu incident”.
The article also mentions that in the past two decades, the central government has taken the harshest measures in the history of Xinjiang and Tibet, which have only proven to lead to more tragedies, and that many Han Chinese living in Xinjiang want to leave the country, and some Han Chinese in southern Xinjiang even compare it to China’s Palestine.
｜After Clubhouse quickly became popular in China on February 10, 2021, many regional and ethnic users formed Chinese chat rooms to start audio discussions, and one user recorded entering the chat room on the morning of February 7 “It was an incredible moment: a Chinese girl crying and apologizing to a Uyghur woman who was being oppressed by the Chinese Communist authorities. It was an incredible moment: a Chinese girl crying and apologizing to a Uighur woman who was being oppressed by the Chinese Communist authorities, as witnessed by me and over 1,000 other listeners.
In this brief space of free speech, thousands of listeners heard diverse voices from Xinjiang, engaged in uncensored dialogue, and the exchange between the two peoples created a strong atmosphere of reconciliation. However, on February 8, Clubhouse was blocked by China and mainland users were unable to log in.
There is a concentration camp in Xinjiang clubhouse
｜On February 22, 2021, the Canadian Parliament passed a motion by a vote of 266-0 that China had committed genocide against the Uighurs in Xinjiang. Although the motion is non-binding, it is believed that the outcome of the resolution will force the Canadian government to take a stand on the issue.
Canadian Opposition Leader Erin O’Toole, speaking before the vote, said that the genocide of Uighurs in China was necessary to send a “clear and unequivocal signal” that Canada would stand up for human rights, even if it meant sacrificing some economic interests. means sacrificing some economic benefits.
｜The BBC obtained leaked documents from Xinjiang’s “re-education camps” on February 28, 2021, which contain personal background information on more than 3,000 Muslims in Xinjiang, detailing their relatives, social circles, and recording the frequency of worship, dress code, and other manifestations that determine the fate of detained Muslims. The documents determine the fate of the detained Muslims. These documents determine the fate of Muslim detainees, as they face a variety of reasons to be detained: ex-masking, bearded, accessing foreign networks, having relatives abroad, violating family planning policies, applying for passports, and being uncomfortable.
The reason for detention, “uneasy”, appears several times in this document, and 88 people were detained for this reason alone. This absurd reason was also covered in a report by China Digital Times in 2020, “Other Unsettled Persons Who May Affect Stability”.
Notification of detention
｜The Wall Street Journal on March 12, 2021 cited multiple diplomats as saying that the EU will blacklist four individuals and one entity for human rights violations in Xinjiang. The decision, which is currently pending formal approval, is expected to be adopted at a meeting of foreign ministers in late March.
The list of sanctions is not only for China, but also for human rights abusers from Russia, North Korea and Africa, and includes travel bans and asset freezes. A netizen commented that “all the condemnation of China should actually be focused on that one person, because the Chinese system determines how domestic policies are transmitted.”
In “Nazi Concentration Camps Begin with “Re-Education””, writer Changping mentions that “history always repeats itself in a surprising way”: the first German concentration camp was not originally used to slaughter Jews but was a political prison camp, and neither forced labor nor concentration camps themselves were original to the Nazis. Neither forced labor nor the camps themselves were original to the Nazis, their use was changed many times, and the story of what happened inside the camps was once a mystery, but in the end it “evolved itself” to produce the horrific Holocaust. While we seriously debate whether the Xinjiang re-education camps can be equated with Nazi concentration camps, we must not forget that the current reality is a repetition of history.
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