“I had an electric rod inserted into my lower body and I could hear another girl screaming in the next room and I knew the guard had raped her.”
“At one point, an order came down that all the girls were to be sterilized or have an IUD placed. Many of the young girls were crying and screaming as they were told that they would be sterilized and never be able to have children.”
Twice imprisoned in the camp, Tursunnai. Tursunay Ziyawudun testified before Congress for the first time as a concentration camp survivor at an online hearing held by the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee yesterday (May 6).
Tursunay Ziyawudun. The first time, she was released after about a month for health reasons. The second time, she was held for 10 months.
The girls would be taken away and left for days before returning,” she said. I saw many girls go crazy because of this.”
According to Tursunnai. Ziyahuddin described the girls as being kept in very dirty rooms, “which were very crowded. There was a bucket in the corner of the room that served as our toilet, and there were many cameras in the room watching us.”
They were given only a bowl of soup that looked like water and a loaf of bread for each meal, were starved every day, and were injected with unknown drugs.
They were told they had ideological problems and were to be educated and to watch never-ending videos of Xi Jinping. Every day they have to swear allegiance to the Chinese Communist government and reject their faith.
In December 2018, Zia Wudin finally left the camp, and before she did, she was warned that if she spoke about what happened in the camp, “there would be serious consequences.” It was only after she managed to reach the United States in 2020 that she felt safe enough to speak out about her experiences in the camp.
Her experiences were first reported by the BBC in February of this year and shocked the international community. A spokesperson for the Chinese Communist Foreign Ministry then took her picture and called her a liar, but that did not stop her from speaking out, saying, “As a survivor, for the sake of those who did not survive, I think I must speak out.”
She called for action from U.S. Rep.
Before former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo left office, the State Department characterized the persecution of Uighurs in Xinjiang by the Chinese Communist Party as “genocide. On April 21, members of the bipartisan Foreign Affairs Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives unanimously passed the “Forced Uighur Labor Prevention Act” and the “Condemnation of Ongoing Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity Committed by the People’s Republic of China Against Members of the Uighur and Other Religious and Ethnic Minorities” bills, jointly condemning the CCP’s genocide.
In addition to the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and several European countries have also taken action.
Canada’s Parliament voted overwhelmingly 266-0 on February 22 to pass the Xinjiang Uyghur Genocide Act, ruling that the persecution of Uyghur Muslims by the Chinese Communist Party is “genocide. Another amendment was also passed, calling on the Canadian government to withdraw from the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics in light of human rights violations by the Chinese Communist Party.
On March 22, the European Union, in a rare move, joined the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom in imposing sanctions on Beijing over the Communist Party’s human rights abuses against the Uighurs in Xinjiang. This is the first major sanction against the Chinese Communist Party since the EU imposed an arms embargo on the Communist Party after the 1989 Tiananmen Massacre.
In late April, the British House of Commons unanimously deemed the Communist Party’s crackdown on Uighurs and other Muslim minorities in Xinjiang to be genocide, and European parliaments, including those of the Netherlands and Lithuania, have proposed similar motions to find that Beijing’s suppression of Uighur human rights in Xinjiang constitutes genocide.
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