In China, the saying goes that ‘there is always trouble in Xinjiang.’ The western province taken over in the past century houses the Uighur Muslims, a group of people bent on keeping their own religion and even wanting their own state within China.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr"><a href="https://twitter.com/ASPI_org?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ASPI_org</a> ‘s analysis of satellite images identifies 28 facilities in China's <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Xinjiang?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Xinjiang</a> region believed to be part of a mass-detention program mainly targeting <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Muslims?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Muslims</a> <a href="https://t.co/rO8t8hRHkI">pic.twitter.com/rO8t8hRHkI</a></p>— ozgur tufekci (@OzgurTufekci) <a href="https://twitter.com/OzgurTufekci/status/1058594512686247936?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 3, 2018</a></blockquote>
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As President Xi Jinping is keen to return to the principles of former Chairman Mao, who famously stated that ‘religion is poison’ and the government in Beijing needs to get Xinjiang under control for it’s ‘one belt, one road’ plan of worldwide logistics of its good over land, authorities are stepping up the incarceration of the Muslim population in the region.
Related coverage: <a href="https://thegoldwater.com/news/39042-China-Xinjiang-Province-Muslim-Internment-Camps-Signed-Into-Law"> China – Xinjiang Province ‘Muslim Internment Camps’ Signed Into Law</a>.
Later this week, the United Nations will be demanding answers from the Chinese government about its practices though as the latest numbers coming out of ‘the Middle Kingdom’ are quite worrying.
The Australian Strategic Policy Institute, a security think-tank affiliated with Australia’s military, claims that there has been a 465 per cent growth in the total floor area of 28 confirmed “re-education centres” in Xinjiang from early 2016 to September 2018. As such, it claims that the Chinese are now holding close to 3 million Uighur Muslims in such ‘detention centres.’
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">.<br>CAUTION - Violent Deaths:<br><br>Chinese Police shoot dead 3 Uyghur Muslim youth in Xinjiang Province bordering Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir (POK). I doubt if Pakistan PM <a href="https://twitter.com/ImranKhanPTI?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ImranKhanPTI</a> will raise this issue with Chinese leaders during his visit to Beijing. <a href="https://t.co/rhZMelz920">pic.twitter.com/rhZMelz920</a></p>— Tarek Fatah (@TarekFatah) <a href="https://twitter.com/TarekFatah/status/1058372510352359424?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 2, 2018</a></blockquote>
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In other words, China is expanding the detention centres at an astonishing rate. According to the report: “The speed with which China has built its sprawling network of indoctrination centres in Xinjiang is reminiscent of Beijing’s efforts in the South China Sea.”
“Similar to the pace with which it has created new ‘islands’ where none existed before, the Chinese state has changed the facts on the ground in Xinjiang so dramatically that it has allowed little time for other countries to meaningfully react.”
Knowing that the international press would soon start to react, the Chinese state media has been casting the detention centres as comfortably appointed facilities where detainees can play ping pong and exercise freely.
However, given the ever increasing number of Muslims that are incarcerated, neighbouring countries Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Pakistan are increasingly worried.
Source:
https://www.sentinelassam.com/news/unhrc-must-question-china-about-xinjiang-camps-amnesty/
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Even the Chinese recognize muslims are a violent problem. Of course to the Chinese anyone out of line with the "party" is trouble.
Yet muslims truly are barbaric animals. Just don`t say that to your typical American democrat. They will never believe you. Despite a long history proving otherwise.
I guess the Chinese have more sense than France, England, Germany & so on in that regard.
You have to admit, with all of the social credit BS, high-tech policing, and cameras in China they have virtually zero terror attacks that I know of
I'm moving to China!