Faced with allegations of persecution and “genocide” against the Uighur people, the Chinese Communist Party has recently released a series of videos showing Uighurs denying abuse, glorifying the Communist Party and denouncing the United States. But foreign media have obtained evidence that the videos were forcibly recorded under the control of the Chinese Communist Party, the first direct evidence of such incidents.
The Associated Press reported on May 20 that they had obtained a message from the Communist Party’s superiors to government departments in the city of Karamay, Xinjiang, in January this year, which said that they had asked each department to find a Uighur fluent in Mandarin to record a one-minute video in response to former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s so-called “anti-China remarks.
In addition to asking for a Uyghur to perform, the “instructions” also helped write lines that said, “Make a clear statement about Pompeo’s comments, such as: ‘I strongly oppose Pompeo’s anti-China comments, and I am very angry about them. ‘ , to express your love for the party, your country and Xinjiang (you can say, I am Chinese, I love my country, I feel happy in my work and life, etc.).”
The Associated Press was unable to independently verify the reliability of the text, but the person who provided the AP with a screenshot of the document in question was a friend of linguist Firdavs Drinov (Chinese name Chen Haoyu), who received the information from a family friend working for the government in Karamay.
Drinov and the friend were arrested three days after the Associated Press received the documents. Xinjiang authorities also confirmed the incident. Drinov has been arrested on suspicion of “fabricating and publishing false information” and “inciting secession. Drinov is currently in custody awaiting trial. Drinov was trained to represent China in an international language Olympiad in 2015.
ABC News Australia reported that Xinjiang rights activist Tahir Imin, who fled China in 2017, said the tapes were almost certainly orchestrated and coerced by the Chinese Communist Party as information from Xinjiang is heavily censored, and that “people don’t even know Pompeo, so how do they know what Pompeo said about Xinjiang. ” Imin said.
Multiple sources of evidence show that the CCP has put more than a million Uighurs in concentration camps, which the CCP denies, and that dozens of videos praising the Communist Party have been released recently in which Uighurs angrily denounce Pompeo. These videos have been used officially by the Communist Party to show at many foreign press conferences.
Albert Zhang, a researcher at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, said, “The tapes appear to be fake, and importantly, the CCP is asking for such tapes.”
Xu Guixiang, Xinjiang’s deputy propaganda minister, did not deny the authenticity of the directive, though he said the films were made voluntarily. “It didn’t need to be organized by the government; many people made these films spontaneously,” and “Pompeo’s anti-China remarks have caused strong resentment among the people of Xinjiang of all ethnic groups.” He said.
Previously, the media reported that the Chinese Communist Party hired “Uyghur actors” to whitewash the Communist Party, for example, at a March 29, 2021, Chinese press conference, a self-proclaimed graduate of the Xinjiang Education and Training Center, Taheilijiang, said he had “learned laws and regulations, business management and other knowledge at the center, and the West is completely The West is completely open-minded”.
But the world will explode, Taheirizhijiang in July last year, another entrepreneurial promotional video, claiming to be a graduate of Fudan University, where he said, “Fifteen years ago I graduated from Fudan University, after graduation with a friend in partnership opened a property company. Fudan University graduates are also put into education and training centers to learn Chinese and technology? The outside world commented that this is the Chinese Communist Party’s eagerness to bleach internationally and use some actors to deceive the outside world, which inevitably wears off.
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