Mick Hartley

Yesterday we heard, in passing, a mention of Xinjiang and the treatment of the Uighurs, as part of China’s dystopian vision for a monoculture of acquiescence and obedience. We hear very little about this now – the Chinese don’t want us to, and the media have other fixations. So this is welcome.

• In some areas, 90% of children are taken from parents to be educated in boarding schools where they aren’t allowed to speak Uyghur
• Officials monitor who eats during Ramadan and report those who skip meals
• Basic items like prayer mats and religious text are considered illegal contraband
• Adult Uyghur women are pressured to marry Han Chinese men, and there are official goals to sterilize a certain % of them.
• Xinjiang has the largest prison capacity in the world relative to population
• Huge numbers of Uyghur prisoners are now being shipped across the country in forced labor schemes, as a way to dodge Xinjiang sanctions/boycotts
• The CCP shut down all 10 existing Uyghur-language publishers, none remain. They fed one university’s book collection into a shredder.

There’s a lot going on the world, but it’s worth remembering that China is still actively engaged in cultural genocide. They’re barely even hiding it, they openly talk about the need to ‘correct’ Uyghur culture and create ‘ethnic unity’. They are openly destroying an entire culture as efficiently as they can, cutting children off from parents, restricting language, restricting religious practice, forcing sterilizations and intermarriage, imprisoning anyone who resists the tiniest amount and shipping them out to forced labor factories. That is what the CCP is.

And, of course, not a peep from the Zionist-obsessed Muslim world – or indeed from the Zionist-obsessed left.