Eryk Bagshaw and Anthony Galloway Updated February 3, 2021 — 5.25pm WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT Australian Liberal and Labor senators have accused the Chinese Communist Party of unspeakable human rights abuses after first-hand accounts of systematic rape, sexual abuse and torture in Uighur detention camps in China were aired by the BBC. The rare testimony, including from a former prison guard, is likely to lead to further scrutiny of the party’s practices in Xinjiang, which the US government has labelled genocide. Beijing has accused the United States and its allies of interfering in its internal affairs and dismissed the genocide claims as baseless. One of the centres housing Uighurs in China’s Xinjiang region. CREDIT:AP One Uighur woman, Tursunay Ziawudun, who spent nine months in detention and now lives in the US, said she was raped by groups of masked Chinese men and had an electrified stick inserted into her. Another, Qelbinur Sedik, an Uzbek woman who was a Chinese language teacher at one of the camps, said there were “four kinds of electric shock” — “the chair, the glove, the helmet, and anal rape with a stick”. “The screams echoed throughout the building,” she told the BBC. “I could hear them during lunch and sometimes when I was in class.”........ More..... https://www.smh.com.au/world/asia/h...hand-accounts-of-torture-20210203-p56z3u.html
'Their goal is to destroy everyone': Uighur camp detainees allege systematic rape https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-55794071 .....The men always wore masks, Tursunay Ziawudun said, even though there was no pandemic then. They wore suits, she said, not police uniforms. Sometime after midnight, they came to the cells to select the women they wanted and took them down the corridor to a "black room", where there were no surveillance cameras. Several nights, Ziawudun said, they took her....... ........"They say people are released, but in my opinion everyone who leaves the camps is finished." And that, she said, was the plan. The surveillance, the internment, the indoctrination, the dehumanisation, the sterilisation, the torture, the rape. "Their goal is to destroy everyone," she said. "And everybody knows it."