There was a revelation yesterday that went unnoticed even in this day and age when state terrorism and genocide are widely discussed. Evidence of Communist China’s inhumane treatment of Uyghurs has emerged from official documents.
More than ten gigabytes of evidence, including footage of torture, torture plans, official orders and threatening speeches at Xinjiang prisons during 2017-18, were hacked and leaked to police computers. This information is undeniable and authentic as it was leaked from the inside.
There have been several allegations of mass deportations, racism and genocide against Uyghur Muslims in China. At that time, the Chinese authorities refused to close. It was explained that the government was providing re-education, job training and counter-terrorism awareness to the Uyghurs.
One million Uyghurs will be imprisoned next year in various concentration camps, which began in 2017 under President Xi Jinping. The people were pressured through widespread human rights abuses to cultivate allegiance to the Communist Party and the majority Han culture. The experiences of the fugitives, a few media reports and satellite images had earlier been leaked as clues to the Uyghur hunt. The documents, known as the ‘Xinjiang Papers’, were followed by information released by the International Media Consortium (ICIJ) in 2019 about China Cables’ detention camp operations and covert surveillance systems. Each time the evidence came out, Chinese officials reiterated that they were only implementing ‘re-education’.
However, the documents released now, entitled ‘Xinjiang Police Files’, are the culmination of this claim. Adrian Sense, a Chinese researcher, was sent these hackers’ secret documents to the media. These are very valuable as official information from the concentration camps.
Observers see these as conclusive evidence that Uyghurs are not being re-educated and trained, but oppressed and genocidal – authoritative evidence of human rights abuses, oppression and cultural annihilation.
The United States imposed trade sanctions on China in 2021 following the release of China Cables. With more and more new evidence now available, the world community can no longer remain silent. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bashley was on a visit to China at the time of the leak. In their statement, they expressed hope that China would be prepared to pay more attention to the human rights sector, although it did not deviate from the “political correctness”.
It remains to be seen whether the world community will be able to change China’s policy of dealing with allegations only through political reactions and bring that country to corrective action. But the actions of the superpowers, which blame China, also call into question their credibility.
The West, which has criticized China on the anniversary of the Tiananmen massacre, is justifying the repressive regimes that have been carrying out a series of assassinations in Palestine and elsewhere. The United States has condemned China’s domination of Taiwan, saying it has established and maintained military bases around the world.
Its sincerity is called into question when the United States, which has a policy of brutal torture in Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib prisons, is outraged at China’s satanism without saying anything about it. It is thus an inherent weakness of the global justice system that accusers’ wrongdoing aids the accused.
Nevertheless, the world’s conscience can no longer remain silent in the face of evidence of gross human rights abuses and genocide. The United Nations and non-aligned nations need to be able to intervene in this matter.