Despite the CCP’s repeated denials of persecution of Uighurs, calling it the “lie of the century” invented by the West, the British media have found that the CCP “wholesales” Uighurs as slave laborers and subjects them to strict surveillance and what it calls “They are under strict surveillance and so-called “semi-military management.
Uyghurs at a re-education camp in Hotan, Xinjiang, April 27, 2019
Sky News reported on April 16 that the Xinjiang government, in its five-year plan for 2019, said it would implement a so-called “labor transfer program” to transport many Xinjiangis to other provinces to “provide more employment opportunities for the remaining rural labor force.” to work in other provinces.
According to a report by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, at least 80,000 Uighur workers were transferred out of Xinjiang between 2017 and 2019, but the actual number may be much higher. Human rights groups have warned that this could be forced labor for the Xinjiang people.
The transfer of these Xinjiangites requires referrals from intermediaries, and on mainland websites, Sky News reporters have found dozens of ads from intermediaries claiming that they can provide Uighur laborers in batches of 50 to 100 per batch.
The ads imply strict political control of Uighurs by the Communist Party, with one ad even saying “the government can guarantee the safety of these workers.
Sky News reporters contacted the phone number provided in the ad, and were told by an agent that Xinjiang workers would need to undergo “political vetting” before being transferred, that local introductory letters would be issued, and that the local government accepting them would also have to “politically vet” them. The agent also said that all workers have a “supervisor” who “semi-militaryly manages” the workers.
Another agent also said that the local government must approve any transfer of Uighurs to work because the so-called “minority issue is a serious problem. And a third of the agents said that the “supervisors” of these Xinjiang workers are paid by the Xinjiang government’s personnel bureau.
The Communist Party’s official media often claim that Uyghur workers are working in good conditions in other regions. But when a Sky News reporter went to a factory in Shandong that reportedly employs 200 Uyghur workers, the head of the factory said that all the Uyghur workers were not at the factory, that “they have all gone home,” and that the reports of forced labor were “nonsense.
The factory manager also said that the Uyghur workers “volunteered” to work at the factory, that they were paid at least 3,000 RMB, and that their dormitories were air-conditioned. However, the reporter found that the dormitories were monitored by the factory’s cameras and that the factory’s vestibule was equipped with police riot control equipment. Twelve local police officers and Communist Party officials then arrived and questioned the Sky reporters for about two hours before ordering them to leave immediately.
The journalists then went to another seafood processing plant in the same province, which recently had a subsidiary in the UK. The manager of the second plant seemed to know they were coming and had been waiting at the entrance for a long time. The manager said there were no Uyghur workers at the plant and that it had never employed Uyghurs in the years he had worked there.
But on March 18, 2020, an article on the company’s website, which was later removed, described the plant as “welcoming” Uighur workers from Xinjiang, adding that it would help alleviate poverty and promote “the integration of the ethnic family.
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