According to the new detailed reports obtained from the BBC, women in China\u2019s so-called \u2018\u2018re-education\u201d camps have been systematically raped, tortured, and sexually abused. The victims told the BBC that they had experienced and seen evidence of organized system of mass rape, sexual abuse, and torture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Xinjiang\u2019s internment camps are facilities designed to detain and brainwash Uighurs and other predominantly Muslim minorities. The camps, in which inhumane and arbitrary treatments have been conducting, were built to prevent Uighurs and Muslim minorities from performing their religious and cultural activities. They were first established under the administration of the current President of the People\u2019s Republic of China, Xin Jinping; and currently are being operated by Chen Quanguo, the Chinese Communist Party\u2019s committee secretary of the Xinjiang region. Analysts claim that the policy against the Uighurs conducted directly from Xin Jinping. According to the information leaked to the New York Times, after a separatist attack in 2014, he ordered the local officials to \u201drespond with no mercy\u201d. Camps are officially called \u201dVocational Education and Training Centers\u201d by the Government of China, yet the facilities are surrounded by high guarding towers and barbed wires like no other educational institution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In 2019, researcher Adrian Zenz, a leading expert on China\u2019s policies in Xinjiang, estimated that the number of the so-called \u201dre-education\u201d camps exceeds 1,000 in the region. Apart from the increase in the number of the camps, there is also a remarkable enlargement in the territorial extent of them. According to some independent predictions, more than a million Uighurs and other predominantly Muslim minorities have been detained in the camps located in China\u2019s western region of Xinjiang.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
China announces that the internment camps exist for the \u201cre-education\u201d and the de-radicalization of the Uighurs and other minorities. The story is, however, completely different for the detainees and the victims. Even though the first-hand narratives from the internment camps are scarce, several former detainees and a guard talked to the BBC about the systematic rape and torture.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThey don\u2019t only rape but also bite all over your body, you don\u2019t know if they are human or animal.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
One of the former captives \u201dUrsunay Ziawadun\u201d verifies the satellite images of the so-called \u201dre-education\u201d camp in which she had been detained. Based on the information she gave, the internment camp is positioned in Xinyuan county. According to what she said to the BBC, she had spent nine months in a cell with 13 other women, had been gang-raped and tortured three times in the same facility. She told the interviewers that she was taken away from her room and barbarically raped and tortured by three masked men in a place called \u201ddark room\u201d. They pushed batons which were shocked with electricity into her genital tract. She said, \u201cThey don\u2019t only rape but also bite all over your body, you don\u2019t know if they are human or animal.\u201d She further stated that she was not the only one that experienced rape and torture, \u201dwomen were removed from the cells \u201devery night\u201d and raped by one or more masked men\u201d. She added that some women who had been taken away from the cells at night were never returned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ziawadun also witnessed a horrifying case of sterilization of a woman who was in her 20s. She is not the only one who has encountered an instance of the Chinese Government\u2019s birth control policy in Xinjiang. According to an investigation conducted by the \u201dAssociated Press\u201d, China spends hundreds of millions of dollars to cut the births of Uighurs while encouraging the Han majority to have more children. IUDs, abortion, and sterilization are some of the methods used by Chinese authorities. Xinjiang region was one of the fastest-growing regions in China but in the last few years with the effect of birth control policy, it has become one of the slowest. The birth control policy in Xinjiang is called \u2018\u2018Demographic Genocide\u201d by some experts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Des coupes de cheveux courtes obligatoires, des tests m\u00e9dicaux inexpliqu\u00e9s, l'injection continue d'un vaccin provoquant des engourdissements et des naus\u00e9es sont quelques-uns des autres traitements inhumains dont Ziawadun a \u00e9t\u00e9 t\u00e9moin ou victime pendant sa d\u00e9tention. Apr\u00e8s neuf mois de captivit\u00e9, elle a finalement \u00e9t\u00e9 lib\u00e9r\u00e9e avec les autres personnes qui avaient des parents ou des conjoints au Kazakhstan. L'\u00c9tat lui a rendu son passeport. Elle avait d'abord fui au Kazakhstan, puis son refuge aux \u00c9tats-Unis a \u00e9t\u00e9 approuv\u00e9. Elle vit maintenant dans un quartier tranquille de Washington.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Another interviewee was Gulzira Auelkhan, a Kazakh woman who spent 18 months in China\u2019s network of internment camps. She stated that they forced her to strip Uighur women and handcuff them so they could not move when they were alone with Chinese men. \u201dThe Chinese men would pay money to have their pick of the prettiest young inmates\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Qelbinur Sedika, a former language teacher from one of the internment camps in Xinjiang, claimed that in one of her conversations with a camp policewoman, she asked if there are any rape cases in the camps. The answer was rather shocking. The policewoman said that \u201dYes, rape has become a culture. It is gang rape and the Chinese police not only rape them but also electrocute them. They are subject to horrific torture.\u201d Another teacher Sayragul Sauytbay who forcibly worked in the internment camps also told the BBC that she witnessed a public gang-rape of a 20 or 21-year-old girl. \u2018The police took turns to rape her,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The BBC also interviewed a former camp guard alongside the teachers and the detainees. According to what he said to the BBC, He did not witness any sort of rape during the time he worked but he acknowledged the usage of the electric batons and some punishment methods used by camp guards. One of his observations was quite supportive \u201cI entered those camps. I took detainees into those camps, I saw those sick, miserable people. They definitely experienced various types of torture. I am sure about that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There may be up to 3 million Uighurs and other minorities in the concentration camps of Xinjiang. It seems unlikely that the people detained in these camps would ever escape from there without losing their personal and ethnic values. Considering the accounts of the former captives and employees, there is no doubt that \u201dtheir goal is to destroy everyone\u201d just like Tursunay Ziawadun said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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