https://www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...aled-in-leaked-documents-20191117-p53bcx.html A bombshell leak of internal Chinese Communist Party documents has exposed in unprecedented detail China's crackdown against Muslim minority groups, revealing President Xi Jinping's decree for "no mercy". Foreign Minister Marise Payne labelled the revelations of China's brutal and secretive campaign in its western Xinjiang province "disturbing" and promised to continue raising Australia's concerns about Beijing's human rights record. Security personnel on patrol outside a mosque frequented by Uighurs in Xinjiang.Credit:AP The 400 pages of documents leaked to The New York Times expose the thinking behind the crackdown, including Xi's call for an all-out struggle using "organs of dictatorship", "a period of painful, interventionary treatment" and showing "absolutely no mercy". The CCP's top official in the province commanded a "smashing, obliterating offensive" and urged colleagues to "round up everyone who should be rounded up". Included in the trove of documents is a directive on how to handle students returning home to Xinjiang to find their relatives detained. Officials were advised to tell students their relatives were receiving "treatment" for exposure to the "virus" of extremist Islam that had "infected" them, while acknowledging they had not committed any crimes. Students were to be warned their behaviour could affect their relatives' time in detention. Officials who resisted carrying out the campaign of mass detention were purged by Chen Quanguo, the hardline party boss installed to oversee the program in 2016. One local official who was worried about the impact of the crackdown was jailed after he released thousands of detainees. According to the Times, the rare leak from inside the Chinese political elite was the result of an insider's desire to "prevent party leaders, including Mr Xi, from escaping culpability for the mass detentions" of as many as a million Muslims. Responding to the report, Senator Payne said it followed a "deeply disturbing" video released in September that appeared to show hundreds of blindfolded and shackled men being transported in Xinjiang. "I have previously raised Australia’s strong concerns about reports of mass detentions of Uighurs in Xinjiang. These disturbing reports today reinforce Australia’s view and we reiterate those concerns," she said. "We have consistently called for China to cease the arbitrary detention of Uighurs and other groups. We have raised these concerns – and we will continue to raise them both bilaterally and in relevant international meetings." China escalated efforts to curb Muslim culture in Xinjiang following outbreaks of unrest and a string of terror attacks, peaking in 2014. The government has since banned certain religious practices and rolled out a vast network of indoctrination camps and advanced surveillance. A key revelation is that Xi provided the impetus for the mass detention, seeing a need to harden the government's approach beyond the policies of his predecessor, Hu Jintao. While Hu had targeted Uighur unrest, he had also emphasised the importance of economic empowerment. In calling for a "people's war" in the Xinjiang, Xi argued that "ethnic separatism and terrorist violence have still been on the rise". Labor foreign affairs spokeswoman Penny Wong said the revelations contained in the leaks were "deeply disturbing" and called on China to respect human rights and end arbitrary detention. "It is a deeply disturbing report because of what it says in relation to arbitrary detention and restrictions on freedom of movement. We would urge China to respond to this report transparently and swiftly," she said, predicting there would be a global backlash. Greens leader Richard Di Natale branded the revelations "horrifying" and said Australia needed to play an active diplomatic role in putting maximum pressure on China. "This horrifying leak removes any chance for doubt that China is conducting cultural genocide against the Uighur people. More than a million people in Xinjiang have been rounded up and deprived of freedom and basic human rights. "The fact this has been leaked from the notoriously secretive Chinese Communist Party shows that there is internal angst about the intensifying cruelty to Uighur people and political dissidents." Nurmuhammad Majid, a Uighur community leader based in Adelaide, said the leaked documents revealed the "wild, inhuman and long-term" repression of Uighurs, with a systematic and well-resourced effort to wipe out minority culture and religion. "This leaked government document could be a final signal to humanity before their voice is totally silenced. Uighurs need help, an immediate action to save them," he said. Maya Wang, a senior China researcher with Human Rights Watch, said the documents were consistent with previous reports about Xinjiang but added important details and insights, including that Xi laid the groundwork. "The documents fly in the face of the Chinese government’s propaganda that Xinjiang’s political education camps are merely voluntary vocational training schools. They also betray the ruthlessness of the Xinjiang crackdown," she said.
These are the same Uighurs that attacked tourists, stabbing them to death, planted bombs in phone booths? The Chinese are not playing games with terrorists and neither should the US! Chinese deserve to run their country as they see fit and protect its citizens and tourists. In the meantime, Islamic radicals tied to ISIS and Al Queda and backed by Turkey have been committing murder and genocide against the Kurds in Syria including, shooting a Kurdish woman politician in the head. Thank you China for giving the vermin what they deserve.
“Officials were advised to tell students their relatives were receiving "treatment" for exposure to the "virus" of extremist Islam that had "infected" them,” —————————— They make a valid point about “Extremist” Islam
The Uyghurs/Muslims are mostly indigenous/ or at least go back hundreds of years in territory that China later conquered/acquired/whatever. An area that has rotated from Mongul control, tibetan control, Chinese control etc over the years. Or to put it another way, they did not have ability to keep the Chinese out of their territory or at least territory which had been part of their nomadic range. I think anyway.
Here is an article from Yahoo on why the Chinese are cracking down on the Uighurs. They have in fact murdered people. In muslim majority countries like Pakistan and Egypt, Chrisians are routinely, murdered and you do not hear about it from liberal media. https://www.yahoo.com/news/must-harsh-them-leaked-docs-182131117.html
Pretty much. A lot of these ethnic/religious groups - the Kurds being another example- out of many examples- have fairly well defined cultures, identifies, and historical presence- except no state and are spread across several states and tend to get treated differently depending on who is in and out of power in one of the states that governs a piece of their homeland. Unfortunately, Christians are falling into that category now too. Everyone sort of "knows" that the mideast is their homeland but cannot exactly identify which country it is where they can go and not be treated like shiite. I am not much of a defender of the wackjob muslims, but there are populations of muslims that just want to be left alone, and where that is true, I am on their side. The Chinese are radicalizing the hell out of them because they have no other place to turn to to keep from being exterminated. Alright, enough. I know nothing.
I guess the safest way to live these days is by being agnostic. They cannot kill you for that, can they?
You’ve been exposed to extremist Christianity as much as those people have been exposed to extremist Islam. I bet you this has nothing to do with terrorism. It has everything to do with a social experiment on big brother totalitarianism and you all support it.