An Uyghur captured in Egypt. Bilal Abdukerim, a master student in Al-Azhar, an applicant for UNHCR. He detained in Cairo on 22 March from home. He didn’t have any criminal record in Egypt, but he was threatened by Chinese police from his hometown. He was in danger of deportation.
 

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When AI programming and deep learning under the control of Centralized Microsoft, Uyghur Muslims genocide is not a topic, because Microsoft still wanna earn dirty money in China.
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Uyghur Muslim brothers are travelling to southern Turkiye to help earthquake victims. A people who endured genocide aiding a people who embraced them into their country.
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The Chinese Communist Party forcibly makes Kazakh and Uyghur people celebrate the Spring Festival like Han people. Xi Jinping repeats everything Mao Zedong did. Mao carried out reeducation through labor, Xi carries out forced labor, demolished mosques, forced Muslims to drink alcohol and eat pork, arrested Kazakhs with foreign relatives on the charge of being "foreign spies," compulsorily arranged Han officials to live in Kazakh and Uyghur families, prohibited communication with foreign relatives, and so on
 
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On 73rd NationalDay of China protests erupted in Bangladesh. Bangladeshi rise against persecution of Uyghur by Chinese govt. They also protested against debt trapping & ill-treatment of Bangladeshi workers who work on vatious Chinese projects.
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Report by the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) regarding what China calls “Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region” (XUAR) states “serious human rights violations” against the Uyghur and “other predominantly Muslim communities” have occurred.
 
 
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We can all help end China's genocide of the Uyghurs: 
1. Don't buy products from China, especially cotton 
2. Don't use China's tech products 
Uyghur activist @nuryturkel told me in Taiwan
 
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 The eminent #Uyghur historian Shérip Khushtar has passed away at the age of 100. He was a remarkable man who lived through many of the events he chronicled. I've learned so much from his work over the years, but what I will cherish most is the memory of meeting him in person.

 

 
Around 2014, a friend and I were walking down the street in Urumchi when Shérip Khushtar walked by. My friend introduced me. For the next hour, Shérip Khushtar shared with us vivid memories of life in the Uyghur region six, seven, eight decades earlier.
 

 
He had known many of the people I write about in my own work on the Republican era. Now, with his passing, we have lost one of our last links to that era in Uyghur history. But Shérip Khushtar left a rich legacy of books and articles we will be learning from for decades to come.
 

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Meet a sinister multi-billion-dollar conglomerate that has its own military force, universities, and jails.
 
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Barracks of a paramilitary unit operated by XPCC. Credits.Beijing’s persecution in Xinjiang is deeply tied in with an organization set up specifically to squeeze out ethnic identities on its westernmost flank.

Shocking proof that the persecution of indigenous Turkic peoples in Xinjiang has been engineered and propelled by an organization specifically set up to squeeze out its indigenous population, has been uncovered by new research.

The extent to which the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (XPCC), also known as the Bingtuan, originally set up seventy years ago to guard the Western frontiers, has mutated over time to create an “environment of extraordinary terror and oppression” has been laid bare by academics at the Sheffield Hallam University’s Helena Kennedy Centre for International Justice.

According to “Until Nothing is Left, China’s Settler Corporation and its Human Rights Violations in the Uyghur Region,” the XPCC, steered by Beijing, but run locally, has evolved to the point whereby even the most intimate moments of Uyghur life are “surveilled, judged, and punished.”

The alarming conclusions of the report found that the small border force set up in 1954 during the Mao era, now functions as an immense multi-billion-dollar conglomerate with thirteen listed companies, and direct and indirect corporate  holdings amounting to more than 862,000 entities worldwide.

Originally focused on agriculture and construction, the Bingtuan also now operates corporations in energy, mining, chemicals, oil and gas extraction, logistics, apparel, electronics, wine, food processing, insurance, tourism, and many other sectors. “The goods produced by the XPCC reach far into global supply chains, and XPCC construction projects operate not only in the XUAR but throughout China and across Central Asia, the Middle East, and Africa,” note the authors.

Managing one sixth of the region’s total land, one sixth of the region’s total population, and much of its governing structures, the XPCC has its own military force, media networks, and high-quality schools and universities. It runs prisons, distributes and requisitions land, and mobilizes hundreds of thousands of Han from inner China to settle the region, and thereby dilute the indigenous population, building them houses and even cities, and grabbing land from local farmers to do so.

Most troubling, the Bingtuan has been charged with building and running the vast network of so-called re-education centers and forced labor programs that have seen more than a million corralled into ex-judicial detention to face torture and every kind of privation, and many more swallowed up into euphemistically named “poverty alleviation” schemes around China making goods for Western markets.

“All enterprises and investment projects in the region are expected as part of their corporate responsibility to engage in the government’s programs to ‘transform’ and indoctrinate Uyghur people and to ‘transfer’ and coerce them into labor-intensive work,” states the report. Subsidies and incentives are lavished on compliant companies and all entities operating in Bingtuan territory are obliged to perform central roles in the repression inflicted on the Uyghurs and other minoritized citizens.
 

 
 
 
The human rights violations implicit in its reach earned the XPCC and two of its highest officials sweeping US sanctions in July 2019 thereby banning all products under its umbrella from entering the USA.

The report points out that XPCC products, particularly tomatoes, coal, cotton and wool fabrics cited for export cannot escape tainting global supply chains, and although now forbidden from entering the U.K. and the United States, are polluting trade around the world due to their complex and opaque accountability networks.

One case study after another showing XPCC encroachment on land, its appropriation of scarce water resources, its destruction of ancient and traditional settlements and cultural and religious landmarks prove incontrovertibly that the relentless forward march of the paramilitary corporation, ordered by Beijing, has one end goal, that of the elimination or at the very least total assimilation of the Turkic peoples.

The economic, physical, mental, and emotional effect on the local population has taken its toll as farmers whose families have tilled their land for centuries see bulldozers raze their oasis homes, carved pillars and orchards to build concrete monolithic housing estates for incoming Chinese settlers. Many are even given bonuses if they demolish their own homes, and surrender their land without a whisper, after which they are forcibly relocated to state-run and monitored communities, “sterile, treeless, and anodyne,” say the authors, “maximizing visibility and surveillability.”
 
 
 
 
The report’s deep dive into the machinations of the XPCC reveal an orchestrated campaign lead by Beijing and collaborated with on the ground, to terrorize every Turkic citizen into shedding their cultural heritage and language in favor of Han practices and Xi Jinping’s vision of a “New Era.”

Xi’s orders to “chop the weeds and destroy their roots, eliminate the evil until nothing is left,” are personified in the roll out of tyranny since 2016 which has seen the XPCC transform the Uyghur region into a virtual open prison. Those who weren’t interned, lived under the spotlight of surveillance and networks of neighborhood snitches, the terror of practicing any religious faith, knocks on the door at midnight, disappearing academics, authors and friends and communities were gripped by the fear of what tomorrow might bring.

Every action and decision was, and still is, laced with the fear that disobedience would mean incarceration without trial. All these charges are laid at the feet of the XPCC by the authors of the report, who urge the international community to stand jointly against the monolith.

“The main purpose of the XPCC is to control, intimidate, disperse, and ultimately break down the Uyghur people until there is nothing left of their culture,” said Laura Murphy, Professor of Human Rights and Contemporary Slavery at the Helena Kennedy Centre for International Justice at Sheffield Hallam University and one of the authors of the report.

“The corporate empire that it has built on the backs of its forced labor programs has a huge footprint in the global economy, and it’s essential that world leaders in both business and government stand against the XPCC and its violations of human rights. As long as companies around the world continue to source from XPCC subsidiaries, Uyghurs and other local peoples in the region will continue to suffer.”
 
 



Direct action and a raft of more sanctions, including import bans on goods grown, processed or manufactured by the XPCC, should be imposed and Magnitsky sanctions widened to include more of its leaders, particularly the chief instigator of the worst excesses of recent clampdowns, former CCP Xinjiang Secretary Chen Quanguo himself, says the report.

Backing the research, 20 co-chairs of the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC) from across the political spectrum and the world, have called for urgent action to hold the XPCC to account. Reiterating the need for robust trade measures against the body, to include “export controls against the 2,873 companies internationally in which the XPCC holds a majority stake,” it also advocates reforming modern slavery legislation to ban the import of goods made by the XPCC and other entities responsible for forced labor in the Xinjiang region.



Following the release of the report, Uyghur groups, including the World Uyghur Congress and the End Uyghur Forced Labour coalition have joined forces to call on “all companies in all countries to sever all relationships with XPCC companies and subsidiaries.” view all

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China’s burgeoning propaganda to forge a better image of Beijing has taken on US-based social media platforms as international concerns over human rights violations and genocide against the Uyghur population in Xinjiang increase.



United Nations High Commissioner Michelle Bachelet will step down this month amid brickbats from rights groups and Western governments following her visit to China in May this year.

Bachelet has been criticised for her soft rhetoric about China’s potential human rights abuses, including the ongoing genocide of Uyghurs in Xinjiang. Soon after, Reuters reported exclusively that China lobbied for support from other countries to ask Bachelet to scrap an upcoming report on human rights violations in Xinjiang. 

This is one of many acts by Beijing to control information - an objective that researchers at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) called "central" to the Communist Party’s geopolitical policy. In a recent report, ASPI states that China utilises disinformation in order to "influence international public opinion." 

ASPI’s report, along with a plethora of others from various thinktanks and legacy media outlets, points out that China’s disinformation campaign has been evident on US-based social media platforms including Twitter and Facebook. Among the over 6.7 million tweets and retweets mentioning Xinjiang that the report analysed, over 60 percent were posted by Chinese state media and diplomats. 

A joint report by Propublica and the New York Times also dug into over 3,000 videos on Western social media platforms in which Uyghur speakers are seen denying accusations of Beijing’s genocide and forced labour. The report states these people seemed to have followed a similar script, as the use of "complete nonsense" appeared in over 600 of these videos and over 1,000 said they uploaded such videos in response to former US secretary of state Mike Pompeo’s speech denouncing human rights abuses in Xinjiang. 

Chinese president Xi Jinping stressed multiple times that the internet is the "battlefield" of information competition. Officials said in a statement that the variety of voices "brought an enormous crash and challenge" to China’s "mainstream ideology," and that they now strive to "unify thoughts."  

On Xinjiang, Beijing reiterated its accusation that any reports of human rights violation in the region have been "fabricated by the US and other Western countries," calling them "the lie of the century" with the intention to smear China with "falsified information."

CREATING THE “CHINESE DREAM”

Using social media to spread pro-China rhetoric is part of the CCP’s effort to boost its soft power, according to Dr Gregary Winger, assistant professor at the University of Cincinnati’s School of International and Public Affairs specialising in cybersecurity. 

"Disinformation campaigns waged via social media are new, but the underlying practice is a form of propaganda and reflects an effort to strengthen China's soft power," Dr Winger told FairPlane. "Specifically, China is not Russia," he added. "While Putin and the Russian government are seemingly comfortable being feared and alienated from the international order, China is not." 

The expert said that China seeks to present an admirable image to the Western world.

"The basis of Xi Jingping's worldview and the Chinese Dream are positing China as an alternative model of governance that should be admired and emulated abroad," he explained. "Soft power is the ability to convince others of that fact and persuade them to embrace China's vision."

Such campaigns include attacking researchers investigating the genocide of Uyghur people in Xinjiang, a report by Mandiant showed. The report investigated 72 fake news sites and social media posts that are linked to a Chinese PR firm named Shanghai Haixun Technology Co, which reportedly sells "Europe and US Positive Energy" content creation packages for English-speaking audiences. 

"Content promoted by the campaign includes efforts to reshape the international image of Xinjiang, criticism of the US and its allies, and attempts to discredit critics of the PRC government," the report reads. "We observed efforts to smear anthropologist Adrian Zenz - known for his research on Xinjiang and China’s reported genocide against the Uyghur population - through website articles and social media posts."

GOING UNDER THE RADAR

China’s state media has reportedly adopted a new strategy to spread the Republic's narrative on social media: certain journalists working at China Daily, Global Times and Xinhua were found to have obscured their online bio by hiding who they work for.

For instance, CGTN’s chief US correspondent calls himself "TV Host/Journalist" on Twitter, while Xinhua’s Berlin reporter’s bio became "Chinese correspondent in Europe."

While many have been marked by social media as "China state-affiliated media," others successfully went under the radar, and were found to have run ads targeting American users. CGTN employees who were able to run Facebook ads for their content that attack Western countries, including the US, have been dubbed "international influencers."

Dr Winger says China’s disinformation campaign to save its image will likely result in a fiasco. 

"China's human rights record, and especially the international campaign on abuses in Xinjiang, are embarrassing and undermine China's soft power," he said. "This is particularly true in Europe and the United States, where concerns about human rights can lead to real economic costs in the form of economic boycotts."

"The disinformation campaign is a response to these efforts and an attempt to limit the economic and political damage to China's reputation," he added. "I do not believe these campaigns will be particularly successful in either North America or Europe, but they may help in other parts of the world like South America."

ASPI researchers say that Beijing will likely bolster its external propaganda by working with overseas Chinese diaspora groups - many oh which are reportedly radical in support of the CCP – and using emerging technology to generate native phrases to improve its campaign. 

The report advises governments to expand economic sanctions on parties who spread propaganda, similar to the ones launched in response to Russia's disinformation campaigners about the Ukraine War, as well as provide more funding to researches exposing China’s propaganda system.   view all