The Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation (voc) released to the public on May 24 what it calls the to-date largest and most significant leak of internal documents from directly within Xinjiang police networks. Dubbed the Xinjiang Police Files, the leak was made to voc by an anonymous third party who hacked into Chinas Public Security Bureau. voc verified the information contained in the leak. The Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation is a nonprofit organization founded by the United States government in 1993.
Xinjiang is a region in western China populated by Uyghurs, a Muslim Turkic people, who have lived under Chinas rule since the mid-18th century. Many want independenceand Beijing has been doing all it can to stop that. To do so, the Chinese government has turned Xinjiang into one of the strictest police states in the world.
China has launched mass detentions of Uyghurs into reeducation facilities (concentration camps) where they are subjected to torture, brainwashing and other inhumane treatments. Uyghur women have received forced sterilizations and even forced abortions. Families whose men have been imprisoned have received ethnic Han Chinese husbands to take their place. What China is doing to the Uyghurs qualifies as genocide. (You can read more about Chinas treatment of the Uyghurs in What Happened to Never Again? and They Want the World to Bow Down to China.)
Much of this information has been hard to verify. China, as a Communist state, maintains a tight flow of information even in normal times. Xinjiang is in the far northwest of the country, far away from the more populated cities on the coast. The Xinjiang Police Filesavailable for anybody to look throughprovide a rare window inside the inner workings of the police state. The files have corroborated many of the allegations surrounding Chinas treatment of the Uyghurs.
Among the files were 2,884 mugshots of detainees. The photographs contain associated data, including why they were detained. The mugshots were all taken in 2018.
The youngest person in the files is Rahile Omer. She was 14 when detained and about 15 when photographed. The oldest, Anihan Hamit, was 73 in 2018.
Some of the reasons listed for Uyghurs internment show how intense Chinas persecution is. Abdurrahman Abaz, age 50 in 2018, was detained for reeducation because he wore a beard and his wife wore a headscarf. Memtili Hoshur, age 23 in 2018, was apparently detained simply because of his family connections. Dawut Jume, age 32 in 2018, received 10 years because he studied the [Koran] illegally from his mother Bilikzi Toheti for seven days. Reshit Ehet, age 20 in 2018, had written for his reason of internment: Category 5 | People who do not trust.
The Xinjiang Police Files also contain photographs of contraband items confiscated by authorities. These include objects such as Islamic prayer rugs, hijabs (head coverings) and quotations from the Koran.
Photographs were not all the Xinjiang Police Files contain. They also contain transcripts of key speeches delivered by major Chinese government figures. These demonstrate some of the heavy-handedness of Chinas Xinjiang policies.
For example, a 2017 speech from Xinjiang Party Secretary Chen Quanguo (which voc has only draft translated) has these instructions for people who flee arrest: Shoot him dead if he run a few steps. You see, in such a situation, if they run, just kill them. There will be no problem, because we have already authorized this a long time ago. In Xinjiang, running a few steps for avoiding arrest on account of your beard means you could be shot.
In Xinjiang, to quote Mao Zedong, political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.
Some of the documents also show how involved Chinese General Secretary Xi Jinping is with what is going on in Xinjiang. A 2018 speech by Minister of Public Security Zhao Kenzhi cites the following quote from Xi to set public policy: Xinjiangs ethnic separatist forces have religious extremism as their ideological basis. [F]irst of all, we must cleanse the source and carry out de-extremification work. Zhao reiterated the importance of Beijings involvement in Xinjiang affairs: fully reflecting the great importance, concern and support of the [Chinese Communist Party] Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core for the work in Xinjiang.
None of this is new. Chinas crackdown on the Uyghurs started after Xi gave the orders in 2014. But the documents show how personally invested Xi has continued to be in Xinjiang years later.
The documents also show some of Xis motives for cracking down on the Uyghurs. Zhao quotes Xi: Doing a good job in Xinjiang matters for the overall situation of the whole country, it is definitely not just a matter of Xinjiangthis one regionbut a matter of the whole party and the whole nation. Chen quoted Xi in a different speech: Only when Xinjiang is stable will the whole country be stable.
When motivated by national survival, its hard to get dictators like Xi to change course.
The Xinjiang Police Files are a wealth of information, but they dont actually reveal much that wasnt known or at least suspected. The world has had some knowledge of all of this for years now. They havent done much about it. The Xinjiang Police Files bring Beijings crimes into sharper clarity than ever before, but its unlikely anybody will do anything about it. Corporations from some of the worlds largest economiesthe United States, Germany and many othershave lobbied support for Chinas actions in Xinjiang. Theres too much money to be made in China for many to take a stand. And even if there werent, China has one of the worlds most powerful militaries. In all likelihood, nothing short of war could get Beijing to stop its genocideand nobody at the moment is brave enough to attempt that.
After Nazi Germanys defeat in World War ii, the world woke up to the horrors of the Holocaust. World leaders pledged they would never again allow crimes like genocide to happen. Yet China is accomplishing a genocide on a comparable scale to the Holocaust. In the era of the Internet, we have greater information access than the Allies did in World War ii. Yet the world is content to shove never again under the rug to placate the Chinese dragon.
China is doing everything it can to blot out the Uyghur nation from existence. And despite the growing levels of evidence to Chinas genocide, the Uyghurs have no helper.
Many in authority may try to forget about the evils happening in Xinjiang. But there is one leader who refuses to forget.
Centuries ago, the ancient Israelites were oppressed under Egyptian slavery. The Bible records that the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigour: and they made their lives bitter with hard bondage (Exodus 1:13-14). In their bitterness the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried (Exodus 2:23).
There was a God in heaven who heard their cry. And the Lord said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows; And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land (Exodus 3:7-8). The book of Exodus shows how God supernaturally intervened to force the Egyptians to free the Israelite slaves.
Its true that God freed the Israelites partly because of a promise He made to their ancestors (Exodus 2:24-25), but that doesnt mean He doesnt hear the sufferings of other people around the world. 1 Timothy 2:4 states that God wants all men to be saved. Isaiah 61:1 shows that God wants to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound. God hears the cries of the Uyghurs. Andin His timeGod promises to give them real freedom.
You dont have to believe it! late theologian Herbert W. Armstrong wrote in The Wonderful World TomorrowWhat It Will Be Like. It will happen, regardless. It is surethe worlds only sure hope. This advance good news of tomorrow is as certain as the rising of tomorrows sun. Humanity wont bring it aboutit is going to be done to us.
Utopia? Why not. Why should it be an imaginary or impossible pipe-dream? There is a cause for todays world chaos and threat of human extinction. That cause will be supplanted by that which will bring a utopia that is real, that is successfully functioning!
Many people associate Bible prophecy with doom and gloom. There are many prophecies foretelling disasters hitting the world not unlike what the Uyghurs are already experiencing. But the same Bible prophesies of the conclusion to those world troublesa world giving liberty to the captives. A world where they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more (Micah 4:3).
To learn more about this soon-coming worlda world of freedom for the Uyghurs and all mankindplease request a free copy of The Wonderful World TomorrowWhat It Will Be Like.
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