A million ethnic minority Uighurs have been detained in “re-education camps.” Here, three young people recall how their parents vanished.
(You'll note that the Woke Left are remarkably silent on this, despite the fact that the Uighers are all Muslim. Because those devious Chinese are presumed to be uncivilized savages who don't know better and who are we as white people to question them. But our fellow white Europeans in Israel should know better than to be mean to Muslims, even Muslims who want to kill them.)
In the video Op-Ed above, three Chinese citizens whose parents disappeared demand their release from China’s “re-education camps.” The government is estimated to have detained over one million people. The goal: to force China’s Uighur ethnic minority to assimilate.
China’s decades-long campaign against the Uighur minority has surged in recent years through the construction of hundreds of detention camps. Even outside of detention centers, millions of Uighurs in China’s Xinjiang region live in a virtual prison. The surveillance state deploys sophisticated technology, including facial recognition tracking, compulsory apps that monitor mobile phones, and even DNA collection.
China has justified its actions as a fight against religious extremism within the predominantly Muslim ethnic minority. The state has also defended the camps as “boarding schools” for job retraining. Yet community leaders, including secular citizens and academics, have been targeted for detention.
The international community has widely condemned China’s actions. The United States Congress is considering legislation to do so. And, in late July, China claimed to have released most detainees — yet experts and on-the-ground reporting suggest that the detention camps persist, and are even expanding.