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United Nations' human rights experts have voiced alarm over alleged Chinese political re-education camps for Muslim Uighurs and called for the immediate release of those detained on the grounds of what China describes as "countering terrorism".

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UN cites estimates of up to 1 million Uighurs being held
China rejects allegations against it
Beijing urges US politicians to worry about themselves not China
The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination cited estimates that up to 1 million Uighurs may be held involuntarily in extra-legal detention in China's far western Xinjiang province.

Its findings were issued after a two-day review of China's record, the first since 2009, earlier this month.

China's Foreign Ministry rejected the allegations at the time, and said anti-China forces were behind the criticism of Beijing's policies in Xinjiang.

It has never officially confirmed the existence of detention centres there.

'Like lambs waiting to be killed'
'Like lambs waiting to be killed'
Since last spring, several hundred thousand and possibly more than 1 million ethnic minorities — mostly Uighur — in Xinjiang have been interned in mass detention facilities.
China has said Xinjiang faces a serious threat from Islamist militants and separatists who plot attacks and stir up tensions between the mostly Muslim Uighur minority and the ethnic Han Chinese majority.

But the panel decried China's, "broad definition of terrorism and vague references to extremism and unclear definition of separatism in Chinese legislation".

This could be used against those peacefully exercising their rights and facilitate "criminal profiling" of ethnic and religious minorities, including Uighurs, Buddhist Tibetans and Mongolians, it said.

In its conclusions, the panel said it was alarmed by, "numerous reports of detention of large numbers of ethnic Uighurs and other Muslim minorities held incommunicado and often for long periods, without being charged or tried, under the pretext of countering terrorism and religious extremism".

During the review, the experts said they had received many credible reports that about 1 million Uighurs were held in what resembled a "massive internment camp that is shrouded in secrecy".

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PHOTO Bordered by eight countries including the former Soviet Central Asian republics, Xinjiang is China's largest province.

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The panel expressed concern over reports of "mass surveillance disproportionately targeting ethnic Uighurs", including through frequent police checks and scanning of mobile phones at checkpoints.

It also cited reports alleging many Uighurs who had left China had been forced to return to the country, and it called on Beijing to disclose their whereabouts and status.

The panel asked China to report back within a year on its main concerns.

China urges US to 'concentrate on their own work'
A bipartisan group of US politicians urged Washington to impose sanctions on Chinese officials responsible for rights abuses of Muslims in Xinjiang, saying the region was being turned into a "high-tech police state".

But Beijing quickly hit back, telling US politicians to instead focus on their own issues.

"If an individual takes a fair and unbiased view of China's ethnic minority policy and the equal rights enjoyed by ethnic minorities, the individual will find that China's ethnic minority policy and actual situation are much better than those of the United States," Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying said.

"I would also like to suggest the US members of Congress who were funded by the US taxpayers to concentrate on their own work and serve the American people, instead of worrying about things that are none of their business all day.
"We hope that the United States can face up to and respect the facts, abandon prejudice and stop taking actions that undermine mutual trust and cooperation between China and the United States."

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An SUV has crashed into a crowd at a public square in central China, killing at least nine people and injuring more than 40 others, the city government says.
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There was no mention of terrorism or any other motive
An official said about 46 people were injured

Police arrested the suspected driver of a red SUV that ploughed into a large group of people at the square in Hunan Province's Hengdong County, according to a government microblog account.
About 46 people were injured, according to the Hengyang city government office in charge of online information and propaganda.
The Beijing Youth Daily, a publication of the ruling Communist Party's youth league, said on its official microblog account that police were investigating the crash.
There was no mention of terrorism or any other motive.
Police identified the driver as a 54-year-old Chinese man named Yang Zanyun from the same county.
He had previously served several prison sentences for crimes including arson and assault, the newspaper said.
China has experienced violent attacks in public places in recent years, including bombings and arson of buses and buildings, sometimes by people trying to settle personal scores or grievances against society.
Occasionally, the attacks are attributed to militant separatists, though such attacks have become less common in recent years.
In 2013, an SUV ploughed through a crowd in front of Beijing's Forbidden City before crashing and catching fire, killing five, including the vehicle's three occupants.
Police blamed that attack on Muslim separatists from the Uighur ethnic minority group.
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no_faith · Sep 13, 2018

ChristJohnny said:
Google "IQ and RACE". It explain why some countries can make it while others not.

Some lazy to think but even they try to think they cannot get the answer so dont bother to think :biggrin:

syed putra · Sep 13, 2018

I googled iq and race and this came out
https://instagram.com/missracewong?utm_source=ig_profile_share&igshid=1ufagys2905iu

KuanTi01 · Sep 13, 2018

syed putra said:
Middle east and iran should shut off its oil to china and let the people there starve to a slow horrid death.

They will still love to trade with China because China is not interested not just in religion but human rights abuses! :biggrin:

It's Dotard's USA and the West that they are wary of.

frenchbriefs · Sep 13, 2018

China is going down the wrong path.....have they forgotten how terrorists groups are created....they are not created by islam.they are created because of the actions of the west.

Hypocrite-The · Sep 13, 2018

frenchbriefs said:
China is going down the wrong path.....have they forgotten how terrorists groups are created....they are not created by islam.they are created because of the actions of the west.

China is going down the best path in dealing with extremism. Using the west is just an excuse bcos of their own inferiority.

frenchbriefs · Sep 14, 2018

Hypocrite-The said:
China is going down the best path in dealing with extremism. Using the west is just an excuse bcos of their own inferiority.

Before the 1970s there were no such thing as terror groups or terrorists.
The commies were the enemies,they were the insurgents and the guerrillas.
Do not make the same mistake of buying into the West's propaganda,the world is in the shape it is today because of the Ang mohs.
U never heard of the whites being the enemy,if it wasn't the blacks,it was the browns or the yellows....

mark my words,once they are done focusing on the middle East,they would be focusing on the chinks,to break us down and make sure we will never challenge the white hegemony.
and the rest will be left alone as long as they remain obedient serfs.

Hypocrite-The · Sep 16, 2018

Ah Tiong is really doing a good job keeping these mudslimes from causing problem,,i hope all ang mor countries with a mudslime problem follow ah tiong lands lead,,,

The struggles of reporting on China's secret Uighur 're-education camps'
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By China correspondent Matthew Carney
Updated about 2 hours ago
First posted about 5 hours ago

Reporting from Kashgar proved to be quite a challenge for Matthew Carney.

(ABC News: Matthew Carney)
It is probably the most difficult place to report from in China. In the far-western province of Xinjiang, the Chinese campaign to smash Islamic extremism and independence sentiments has been taken to new extreme level.
The Chinese deny it's going on, and don't like foreign reporters going there to investigate.
I travelled to the Uighur heartland, the city of Kashgar, for the Foreign Correspondent program. To give you an idea of the geography, Kashgar is much closer to Tehran or Baghdad than to Beijing.
Xinjiang is home to about 11 million Uighurs — a Turkic ethnic minority who practise the Islamic faith. The United States and now the United Nations say what's happening there is the biggest crackdown on any ethnic group happening in the world today.
Human rights activists say widescale abuses and mass detentions are taking place, with a million Uighurs being held in "re-education camps".
After travelling all day to get there, I fell into a deep sleep at about midnight in my hotel room. Soon after the phone rang, and suddenly I jolted upright.
My Chinese colleague was at the other end of the line, saying "they're here, they want to see us downstairs now".
We had expected the call, as that's how security officers deal with Western reporters in the province of Xinjiang. We had managed to evade them for two hours by pretending to be tourists as we filmed the Id Kah Mosque, and that felt like a war zone rather than a place of worship. Riot troops patrolled the area and a Chinese flag claimed the dome of the mosque.

A man and a boy at a Kashgar market.

(ABC News: Matthew Carney)
Now, five security personnel were waiting downstairs in the hotel lounge for us.
Two of them — Max and Mike, as they called themselves — said in perfect English: "Welcome to Kashgar".
I did point out to them it was midnight and it wasn't a very nice welcome. Max replied: "We're just doing our job, we want to show how peaceful and harmonious Kashgar really is".
And that was quickly followed up with a threat: "If you film any police or security presence, any surveillance technology, then your journalist visas might be cancelled".
We had come to film how the Chinese were using technology as their new tool of repression. Needless to say, it was going to be a difficult assignment.
Minders watched us every step of the way
Interestingly, Mike and Max were Uighurs themselves. Some would label them collaborators, part of the Chinese attempt to turn the Uighurs against themselves — to get half the population to inform and spy on the other half.
Over the course of the next four days we'd learn there was actually a much bigger cordon, more than 20 security officials watching us 24 hours a day.
Everywhere we'd go, they'd be there already. But they would dress up and change roles, try to be in disguise as shop assistants, construction workers, drivers or tourists taking photos.

Kashgar, in the western province Xinjiang, is the country's Uighur heartland.

(ABC News: Matthew Carney)
It was almost farcical, as some would play several different roles in space of several hours, so you got to know faces and recognise the shopkeeper who suddenly became the maintenance man.
And the three ladies from the propaganda department who never left our side would ensure locations were "cleaned" before we turned up, so everything appeared to look peaceful and harmonious.
Our minders controlled our movements and demanded that we delete scenes we had filmed. To please them, we did, but we came prepared and had several back up recordings which they did not detect — you can see them on Tuesday's Foreign Correspondent program.
It was almost impossible to speak with any local Uighurs, and when we did it was all set up so they would talk about the wonderful development China was providing the Uighurs.
Eventually we spoke with an old shopkeeper in the Grand Bazaar — but he had been coached for 15 minutes by our minders before the chat.
"Under the leadership of Xi Jinping, life is getting better all the time. We now have good roads and good buildings, even trains and aeroplanes. Life just gets better and better," the shopkeeper said.
I didn't push him, because that was not a risk worth taking. If a local was to speak honestly about the crackdown underway, it would land them in detention.
Are you trustworthy, questionable or untrustworthy?
But it was pretty difficult to hide what was going on. The Chinese had spent a whopping $12 billion on security to fund their latest campaign.
The vastly expanded network of security agencies and personnel were everywhere. But technology is the new weapon, so lines of CCTV cameras — all with artificial intelligence — were all over the streets and buildings, much more than in Beijing.
The authorities had set up a grid system for total control, and about every 100 metres, there was a new police station. Locals were restricted from public areas by checkpoints which used facial recognition.

The backstreets of Kashgar are far less polished than the tourist zone.

(ABC News: Matthew Carney)
So going to a shopping centre — that's if you were allowed in — is like getting into a prison. Filling up a car with petrol is a major security operation, where every purchase is tagged and recorded to each individual. Authorities want to make sure the Uighurs do not self-immolate or make a bomb.
The Uighurs are tracked 24 hours a day, and everything they do, say and even think is watched. Their iPhones are routinely and regularly searched for "Islamic content", and then "scrubbed".
Authorities put the local population into three categories: trustworthy, questionable and untrustworthy.
If you are Han Chinese, you are deemed trustworthy and are free to move, but if you are a Uighur, you are immediately under suspicion and put into the questionable category, simply because of your ethnicity and religion.
Uighurs are quickly upgraded to untrustworthy and subjected to detention if they are a male of fighting age, pray often or have had religious training, or visited one of 26 proscribed Muslim countries like Pakistan or Malaysia.
The United Nations says it now has credible evidence that about a million Uighurs — about 10 per cent of the population — are now being held in detention without trial, in what are being called "re-education camps".
China denies this, and says only convicted terrorists are detained, and only "vocational training" is conducted.
Re-education camps or concentration camps?
Testimonies of former inmates are starting to emerge, revealing details from inside the camps. They say they were forced to denounce their religion and culture, and embrace Communist party ideology and Chinese nationalism.
If they don't, they claim they were tortured and put into solitary confinement. Locals call them concentration camps.
'Like lambs waiting to be killed'

Since last spring, several hundred thousand and possibly more than 1 million ethnic minorities — mostly Uighur — in Xinjiang have been interned in mass detention facilities.
Outside of China, Foreign Correspondent spoke with Tahir Hamut, a Uighur filmmaker and poet in America. He fled last year with his family, after he said he witnessed "advanced technology which we'd never seen, never experienced and never heard of" starting to appear.
Authorities in Kashgar instructed him and his wife to give a blood sample for DNA analysis, voice samples, and comprehensive facial scans for facial recognition software.
Mr Hamut says when Uighurs started to disappear into the re-education camps, he knew he had to get out.
But when Chinese authorities learnt that Mr Hamut had sought political asylum in America, his brother and two brothers-in-law disappeared.
It's now impossible to communicate with them. They're in the "concentration camps". Even contacting their families, their wives, isn't possible now.
We could try to contact them — sure, we could call — but if we do, the police will know immediately and then the others would be taken to the camps as well.
Look beyond the tourist haven
Kashgar is meant to be the spiritual heartland of the Uighurs, but much of the old city has been destroyed. The Chinese have rebuilt one section of the city and turned it into a kind of Uighur theme park, mainly for Chinese tourists, where you can try local cuisine, buy some trinkets and see a show.
It was the one place the three ladies from the propaganda department were happy for us to film. They wanted us to see for ourselves that the Chinese had provided the Uighurs with big houses, with heating and proper toilets.
But a few streets back from the tourist area, many of the houses were empty, as the Uighurs who lived there have been put into the camps.
'You have to criticise yourself'

Kazakh Muslim Omir Bekali, and other former detainees, detailed how he had to disavow his Islamic beliefs, criticise himselves and give thanks to the ruling Communist Party.
The crowning glory for the propaganda ladies was a visit to the museum that documented the rebuilding. The message was blunt — on the first floor there were exhibits devoted to how uncivilised and unclean the Uighurs were, and the top floor was a celebration of what the Chinese had given the locals.
But the problem is that most of the Uighurs have been locked out of the new developments in Kashgar and Xinjiang. Much of it is directed at the Han Chinese, who have flooded in to take the jobs and economic opportunities.
One got the impression that the Chinese in Xinjiang were very much trying to smash Uighur culture and rebuild and reshape it into their own. The Chinese call it "transformation though re-education" and it was at its ugliest during the Cultural Revolution.
Now many China-watchers are saying what is happening in Xinjiang is proving to be worse.
Just before we left, there was one more cameo. When we boarded the plane and sat down in our seats to return to Beijing, a tall older gentleman approached us dressed as a flight attendant.
He stood in front of me, with a camera attached to his chest and recorded me for a few seconds, then quickly left. A parting message.
But while I could leave, the Uighurs cannot.
Watch Foreign Correspondent on Tuesday night at 8:00pm AEST on ABC TV.

maxsanic · Sep 17, 2018

I suspect many westerners are also cheering China on and supportive of their dealing with the Uighurs. The centrist Europeans are now in quiet acquiesce with a growing populace advocating similar policies towards European Muslims whereas their strongest supporter Turkey is busy making friends with China and Erdogan did not even bother to do the perfunctory "showing concern" speech recently when he met up with Xi.

The only supporter they have now is a small bunch of very anti-Muslim senators in US who are advocating for them just to spite China. Such is the irony of politics.

Sideswipe · Sep 17, 2018

the Uighurs want what ? independence or greater autonomy ? the Chinese Communist government will adopt a very tough stance on dealing with those people in the name of Xinjiang stabilization.

syed putra · Sep 17, 2018

Sideswipe said:
the Uighurs want what ? independence or greater autonomy ? the Chinese Communist government will adopt a very tough stance on dealing with those people in the name of Xinjiang stabilization.

They want the same rights as when sinkie was in malaysia.

Hypocrite-The · Sep 29, 2018

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As reports of the forced detention and brainwashing of up to one million ethnic Uighurs continue to emerge from China's Xinjiang autonomous region, the ABC has heard a rare account from a witness who has been inside a camp.

Tarim, whose second name we have withheld, bribed his way into one of the "training" centres reserved for the Muslim minority, to see his sister, who was detained in 2016.

She is being held in the facility outside Aksu City, in western Xinjiang (also known as Turkistan), which Tarim described as a "concentration camp".

"It was April and there was snow in some parts, and I saw about 500 persons on the concrete, on the ground," he told PM in his native language, through a translator in Sydney.

"And also there were about 700 or so people … in the queue to get food, and at the same time they were singing patriotic songs: I love Communist Party, I love Xi Jinping."

Testimony from Uighur eyewitness
PHOTO Testimony from an Uighur eyewitness.
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Tarim, who fled to Turkey to avoid arrest after his visit, said his sister was crying, had lost weight, and was too afraid to speak freely.

"I asked her how she was, and she said, 'good', but I could feel that she was in fear from her face, and she was actually shaking and she was looking around," he said.

"She said they were attending classes, but from her situation, it was clear that she was in a state of fear."

Tarim estimated there were thousands of Uighurs in Aksu City's facility alone, separated into male and female quarters.

China denies it is holding people in concentration camps and claims it is taking security measures to fight terrorism in Xinjiang, where tensions between the Han Chinese and the Muslim Uighurs have run high for more than a century.

But Tarim rejects China's explanations.

"The concentration camps are not just designed to eliminate Uighur culture and language.

"It is actually designed to exterminate — eliminate — the whole Uighur nation as people," he said.

"People are talking about 1 million in concentration camps, but in my estimate, it is about 5 million people who are taken into camps."

The figures are impossible to verify.

The next generation
The eyewitness report comes as concerns mount about the way the Chinese Government is dealing with Uighur children.

China's hotbed: who created the violence?

By turning the screws on the Uighurs tighter every day, is China actually creating the hotbed of discontent that it's trying to crack down on?
Dozens of orphanages have been set up in Xinjiang in recent months, in an alleged effort by Beijing to systematically distance young Muslims from their families and culture.

Children are being removed even when their families are willing to care for them, according to Financial Times Beijing correspondent, Emily Feng.

"I've interviewed a number of people who had relatives who very much wanted to take care of children whose parents had been detained, but the children were forcibly taken away from them and sent to state orphanages," she told PM.

Ms Feng said this was part of a broader campaign by the Chinese Government to eliminate Uighur identity.

"If your theory is that the Chinese Government is trying to stamp out Uighur identity and Uighur culture, then it makes perfect sense to go after the next generation of Uighur children in detaining them along with their parents," she argued.

"The worry among Uighur exiles that I've talked to is this very real fear that their children will grow up not recognising the people that they came from."

Police presence in Xinjiang
PHOTO China denies it is holding people in concentration camps and claims it is taking security measures to fight terrorism in Xinjiang.
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"We're looking at potentially hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of children that have already been affected, and there is no telling what numbers might be going forward."

Shirmuhammad Hasan, who is from Xinjiang but now lives in Australia, fears his two year-old son Ihsan has been sent to one of the orphanages.

He has not received any news about the child since his wife was sent to a re-education camp earlier this year.

"I have no idea what's happened with my son," Mr Hasan said.

"I'm really worried about him and what's happening to him. I can't call anyone except my mother, and she can't go to the north part of East Turkistan because it's not safe."

Mr Hasan said he would like to return to Xinjiang to look for his son, but he was concerned he would not be able to leave China if he did.

"It's too dangerous to go back," he said.

"I would get arrested at the airport and I'll be gone forever."

The communication blackout
Many Uighurs living in Australia say even communicating with their family members in China puts relatives at risk.

"At this stage there is a communication blackout," Mamtimin Ala, president of the Australian Uighur Association said.

"The Chinese Government has cut off any kind of communication lines with our family members there.

"We are in the grip of anxiety over the wellbeing of our family members.

"This is huge psychological pressure on us by the Chinese Government, that we have no idea about what's going on there."

Mr Hasan said many Uighur people in China were now afraid of contacting relatives outside the country for fear of Chinese authorities.

"I used to chat with my ex-wife on Wechat, but since I've been living in Australia, the police in East Turkistan have started checking people's telephones on the street," he said.

"If they see something they don't like, or that you're communicating with someone overseas, they'll take you to prison."

'Like lambs waiting to be killed'
'Like lambs waiting to be killed'
Since last spring, several hundred thousand and possibly more than 1 million ethnic minorities — mostly Uighur — in Xinjiang have been interned in mass detention facilities.
Mr Hasan lost contact with his wife earlier this year before she was sent to one of the re-education camps.

"She just deleted me all of a sudden. She said 'I'm having trouble here' and just deleted me."

Some Uighurs believe the Chinese Government is attempting to exert pressure on them even though they now live in Australia.

Nurmuhammed Turkistani, president of the East Turkistan Australian Association, claims Uighurs are being directly contacted by people claiming to be from the Chinese consulate.

"I have received phone calls from the community members a number of times," he said.

"More than 20 times that they were contacted by so-called Chinese consulate officers and also they were urged to contact the Chinese consulate in relation to the matter, otherwise they will be facing consequences."

The Chinese embassy did not respond to the ABC's request for comment.

In the past, it has said some calls purporting to come from the embassy were from scammers.

But Mr Turkistani said he believed the calls were part of a broader strategy to intimidate Uighur people in Australia, and stop them speaking out.

"We believe that the Chinese embassy is threatening to the community members, causing psychological fears and also harassment to their family members in our region," he said.

The Australian Government has expressed concern over how Uighur people are being treated in China.

But Dr Ala is urging the Government to follow the lead of the United States and consider sanctions against senior Chinese officials linked to human rights abuses.

"A fundamental question is whether or not we should do business with a country which is committing crimes against humanity," he said.

"This is also quite a crucial moral test for the Australian Government.

"If the Australian Government is silent over this matter, China's Government will put more pressure on Australia to be silent over many other matters not necessarily happening to Uighurs, but also happening to Australians in the future."

Tarim sent a similar message.

"I am asking from the free world, as well as from the Australian Government, is to help prevent the extermination of the Uighur nation by the Chinese Government."

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syed putra · Sep 29, 2018

The Han chinese invading uighyurs homeland is the oroblem. Especially now when they found huge oil and gas reserves there.
Instead of respecting uighyrs customs and traditions in their homeland, the Hans invaded, colonised and populate uighyrs homeland, want them to follow han customs and traditions. This will not work. Another israel-palestine like conflict coming. Except this time, the terror groups will target chinese or chinese tourists.

Hypocrite-The · Sep 29, 2018

syed putra said:
The Han chinese invading uighyurs homeland is the oroblem. Especially now when they found huge oil and gas reserves there.
Instead of respecting uighyrs customs and traditions in their homeland, the Hans invaded, colonised and populate uighyrs homeland, want them to follow han customs and traditions. This will not work. Another israel-palestine like conflict coming. Except this time, the terror groups will target chinese or chinese tourists.

The funny thing is the ang mors in general are more tolerant colonisers and the ang mor haters are many,,but when it comes to being controlled by ah tiong land,,the ang mors are saints,,but still the collaborators still sing the praises of the commies,,,,talk about out of the frying pan and into the fire

syed putra · Sep 29, 2018

Before the creation of israel, there was no islamic or arab/jewish conflict. Jews live in peace in morocco, iraq, iran, palestine, egypt etc.

whoami · Sep 29, 2018

syed putra said:
Before the creation of israel, there was no islamic or arab/jewish conflict. Jews live in peace in morocco, iraq, iran, palestine, egypt etc.

God fearing practising Jews are friends of Muslims. They are the true people of the book as mentioned in the Quran. Those who occupied present israel are the zionist which is rejected by the orthodox jews cos the former committed 2 serious crimes in the eye of their God. The zionist steal and kill Palestinians. They did not abide the laws of the 10 commandments! Even the orthodox jews reject the present state of Israel.

Hypocrite-The · Oct 10, 2018

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China reportedly begins mass transfers of Uighur detainees from Xinjiang to prisons nationwide
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A Uighur man looks on as a truck carrying paramilitary policemen travel along a street during an anti-terrorism rally in China.
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Train travel to China's heavily restricted Xinjiang province is being suspended indefinitely amid reports Muslim detainees are being transferred to prisons in far-flung provinces, fuelling speculation Beijing is attempting to disperse its mass political re-education program to obscure it from international view.
Key points:

China has been "embarrassed" by global condemnation of its treatment of Uighurs
Muslim detainees reportedly being sent thousands of kilometres from their homes in Xinjiang
Beijing's approach to Uighur separatism becoming increasingly "radical"

Beijing has come under increased international scrutiny in recent months as the mass scale of its crackdown on ethnic Uighurs and other Muslim minorities living in north-western China became increasingly apparent.
Approximately 2 million people — including 1 million Uighur Muslims, or about 10 per cent of the Uighur population — have been detained in overcrowded camps across Xinjiang, according to a number of reports this year.
'Like lambs waiting to be killed'

Since last spring, several hundred thousand and possibly more than a million ethnic minorities — mostly Uighur — in Xinjiang have been interned in mass detention facilities.
Human rights groups say detainees are held without charge in political re-education camps, while the rest of the population lives under onerous conditions, including unrelenting surveillance and severe movement restrictions.
PHOTO Bordered by eight countries including the former Soviet Central Asian republics, Xinjiang is China's largest province.
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Reports have emerged that inmates are being transferred from their home province into neighbouring Gansu province as well as regions as distant as Heilongjiang, thousands of kilometres away on the opposite side of the country, with speculation China is using the tactic to more closely control the Muslim population as well as control the flow of information about alleged human rights abuses.
James Leibold, a China specialist at La Trobe University, said global condemnation has "embarrassed" Beijing, but authorities had no intention of heeding calls to allow independent human rights monitors into the autonomous region to assess the situation, instead moving detainees in secret.

"If anything, they plan to … make it more difficult to track what has become of Uighurs, Kazakhs and other Muslim minorities who have literally disappeared from their families into state custody," he said.

The secretive inmate transfers began earlier this year, according to a Radio Free Asia report, but reports of Beijing requisitioning the Xinjiang train station has observers concerned the operation is ramping up.
The reports come as the state-run People's Daily newspaper announced that ticket sales for passenger trains entering and leaving Xinjiang would be suspended from October 22 onwards, with no details about when services would recommence.
Sources in Gansu and neighbouring provinces have suggested that trains are still moving in and out of Xinjiang, but not with paying passengers, and a location called Li Xin farm in Gansu province has received increased attention as a location Muslim populations could be transferred to.
'Strategy of cultural and political re-engineering'
PHOTO Kashgar, in the western province Xinjiang, is the country's Uighur heartland.
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Dr Leibold said the halting of train ticket sales, along with sudden highway closures, "suggest that in the last couple of months there has been an attempt to move large numbers of people".
Up to 300,000 detainees could be transported in the coming weeks, Radio Free Asia reported, with prisoners from other parts of the country being swapped into Xinjiang facilities.
"It's a significant event in terms of the logistics of it," David Brophy, a China researcher at the University of Sydney, told the ABC.
"And it's having an effect not just on transport in and out of Xinjiang, but around Xinjiang as well."
'You have to criticise yourself'

Omir Bekali details how he had to disavow his Islamic beliefs, criticise himself and give thanks to the ruling Communist Party.
Dr Brophy said the reports that prisoners from elsewhere in China were being taken to Xinjiang indicated the policy change was more likely to be about controlling Muslim detainees than addressing overcrowding.
China has never officially acknowledged the existence of the camps, but maintains its tough line on Xinjiang is necessary to counter terrorism — the region is home to a long-running separatist movement.
Beijing's approach to what the Chinese commentariat have dubbed the "virus of extremism" has become increasingly "radical", according to Dr Leibold.

"This strategy seems to be one of cultural and political re-engineering of the entire population," he said.

It constituted an attempt "to remould them in the form of Han-defined cultural and political norms", Dr Leibold added, referring to the Han Chinese majority.
The Chinese Embassy in Australia and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in China could not be reached for comment.
PHOTO A banner at a mosque that reads "Love the party, Love the country" in Kashgar, Xinijang last November.
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Sideswipe · Oct 10, 2018

it seems that China has a serious problem with the uighur muslims but not with the rest of its minorities. there are other muslim minorities in China but only the uighur people are causing trouble or becoming a problem to the Chinese government. decades of Hans migration to the minorities regions resulted in the minority is no longer the dominant race in their region, and the Hans are the new majority in the cities and control the local economy and politics. the minorities have lost control of their autonomous regions long ago.

syed putra · Oct 10, 2018

China probably copying PAP in destroying minority ghettos, which are hive for opposition support, and dispersing them nationwide and forcing uighyrs to assimilate with local hans.
Their land forcibly acquired and repopulated with han immigrants, just like wgat PAP did in aljuneid, geylang, kallang which became choice areas for hdb's and other gahmen development like stadiums.

Ah Tiongs dealing with Muslims. Ah tiong land Bagus

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