You didn’t think we would stop coming out in large numbers just because we won an election, did you? The five demands haven’t been fully met yet. Vigilance, all the way.
FYI. This is a march obtained “no objection” from HK police. But at last, the HK police fired tear gas right in the middle of the crowd at around 5pm, when the protesters were marching peacefully.
Content Warning - A teacher that escaped a Xinjiang internment camp and found asylum in Sweden details her horrific experiences of rape, torture, and human experiments;[1]
Twenty prisoners live in one small room. They are handcuffed, their heads shaved, every move is monitored by ceiling cameras. A bucket in the corner of the room is their toilet. The daily routine begins at 6 A.M. They are learning Chinese, memorizing propaganda songs and confessing to invented sins. They range in age from teenagers to elderly. Their meals are meager: cloudy soup and a slice of bread.
Torture – metal nails, fingernails pulled out, electric shocks – takes place in the “black room.” Punishment is a constant. The prisoners are forced to take pills and get injections. It’s for disease prevention, the staff tell them, but in reality they are the human subjects of medical experiments. Many of the inmates suffer from cognitive decline. Some of the men become sterile. Women are routinely raped.
...Sauytbay had to teach the prisoners – who were Uyghur or Kazakh speakers – Chinese and Communist Party propaganda songs. She was with them throughout the day. The daily routine began at 6 A.M. Chinese instruction took place after a paltry breakfast, followed by repetition and rote learning. There were specified hours for learning propaganda songs and reciting slogans from posters: “I love China,” “Thank you to the Communist Party,” “I am Chinese” and “I love Xi Jinping” – China’s president.
The afternoon and evening hours were devoted to confessions of crimes and moral offenses. “Between 4 and 6 P.M. the pupils had to think about their sins. Almost everything could be considered a sin, from observing religious practices and not knowing the Chinese language or culture, to immoral behavior. Inmates who did not think of sins that were severe enough or didn’t make up something were punished.”
After supper, they would continue dealing with their sins. “When the pupils finished eating they were required to stand facing the wall with their hands raised and think about their crimes again. At 10 o’clock, they had two hours for writing down their sins and handing in the pages to those in charge. The daily routine actually went on until midnight, and sometimes the prisoners were assigned guard duty at night. The others could sleep from midnight until six.”
...The camp’s commanders set aside a room for torture, Sauytbay relates, which the inmates dubbed the “black room” because it was forbidden to talk about it explicitly. “There were all kinds of tortures there. Some prisoners were hung on the wall and beaten with electrified truncheons. There were prisoners who were made to sit on a chair of nails. I saw people return from that room covered in blood. Some came back without fingernails.”
...“I will give you an example. There was an old woman in the camp who had been a shepherd before she was arrested. She was taken to the camp because she was accused of speaking with someone from abroad by phone. This was a woman who not only did not have a phone, she didn’t even know how to use one. On the page of sins the inmates were forced to fill out, she wrote that the call she had been accused of making never took place. In response she was immediately punished. I saw her when she returned. She was covered with blood, she had no fingernails and her skin was flayed.”
...The fate of the women in the camp was particularly harsh, Sauytbay notes: “On an everyday basis the policemen took the pretty girls with them, and they didn’t come back to the rooms all night. The police had unlimited power. They could take whoever they wanted. There were also cases of gang rape. In one of the classes I taught, one of those victims entered half an hour after the start of the lesson. The police ordered her to sit down, but she just couldn’t do it, so they took her to the black room for punishment.”
Tears stream down Sauytbay’s face when she tells the grimmest story from her time in the camp. “One day, the police told us they were going to check to see whether our reeducation was succeeding, whether we were developing properly. They took 200 inmates outside, men and women, and told one of the women to confess her sins. She stood before us and declared that she had been a bad person, but now that she had learned Chinese she had become a better person. When she was done speaking, the policemen ordered her to disrobe and simply raped her one after the other, in front of everyone. While they were raping her they checked to see how we were reacting. People who turned their head or closed their eyes, and those who looked angry or shocked, were taken away and we never saw them again. It was awful. I will never forget the feeling of helplessness, of not being able to help her. After that happened, it was hard for me to sleep at night.”
There are up to 1 million Muslim Uyghers that are living in what the Chinese government refers to as re-education camps in China.[2] This is state sanctioned institutionalized oppression of an ethnic minority in China.
The camps were legalized by the Chinese government in October 2018.[3] Initially the Chinese government denied the existence of camps where people are being detained and tortured.[4] They are being physically [5] and mentally tortured.[6]
Millions of Uyghers are not free to practice their religion without fear of the Chinese government detaining and torturing them. They live in perpetual fear under martial law. The people are subjugated to near total surveillance with cameras watching their every move. The Chinese government monitors every aspect of the people's lives and if there is even the slightest bit of percieved dissent police arrest individuals and send them to camps. The surveillance is so bad that if an individual from the region has an international phone number saved on their phone or if they communicate with someone from abroad that individual is detained under suspicion and sent to a camp.[7] The entire population is DNA-sampled while communications are closely monitored. Privacy is nonexistent. Towns have turned into ghost towns as people fear to talk to one another or go out.[8]
1) Haarertz - A Million People Are Jailed at China's Gulags. I Managed to Escape. Here's What Really Goes on Inside
2) BBC - China Uighurs: One million held in political camps, UN told
3) BBC - China Uighurs: Xinjiang legalises 're-education' camps
4) The Guardian - From denial to pride: how China changed its language on Xinjiang's camps
5) Telegraph - 'I begged them to kill me', Uighur woman describes torture to US politicians
6) Washington Post - Former inmates of China’s Muslim ‘reeducation’ camps tell of brainwashing, torture
7) VICE News - Uighur parents say China is ripping their children away and brainwashing them
Orhac on December 1st, 2019 at 10:18 UTC »
Credit: Studio Incendo
“Never forget why we started” march in Tsim Sha Tsui on Dec 1, 2019.
Gladibeaaa on December 1st, 2019 at 10:57 UTC »
FYI. This is a march obtained “no objection” from HK police. But at last, the HK police fired tear gas right in the middle of the crowd at around 5pm, when the protesters were marching peacefully.
Edit: adding two links.
https://twitter.com/rachel_cheung1/status/1201062070260649984?s=21
https://twitter.com/yannnnnn111/status/1201095372283625472?s=21
stank420247 on December 1st, 2019 at 13:52 UTC »
Everyone should read this if you haven't
Content Warning - A teacher that escaped a Xinjiang internment camp and found asylum in Sweden details her horrific experiences of rape, torture, and human experiments;[1]
Twenty prisoners live in one small room. They are handcuffed, their heads shaved, every move is monitored by ceiling cameras. A bucket in the corner of the room is their toilet. The daily routine begins at 6 A.M. They are learning Chinese, memorizing propaganda songs and confessing to invented sins. They range in age from teenagers to elderly. Their meals are meager: cloudy soup and a slice of bread.
Torture – metal nails, fingernails pulled out, electric shocks – takes place in the “black room.” Punishment is a constant. The prisoners are forced to take pills and get injections. It’s for disease prevention, the staff tell them, but in reality they are the human subjects of medical experiments. Many of the inmates suffer from cognitive decline. Some of the men become sterile. Women are routinely raped.
...Sauytbay had to teach the prisoners – who were Uyghur or Kazakh speakers – Chinese and Communist Party propaganda songs. She was with them throughout the day. The daily routine began at 6 A.M. Chinese instruction took place after a paltry breakfast, followed by repetition and rote learning. There were specified hours for learning propaganda songs and reciting slogans from posters: “I love China,” “Thank you to the Communist Party,” “I am Chinese” and “I love Xi Jinping” – China’s president.
The afternoon and evening hours were devoted to confessions of crimes and moral offenses. “Between 4 and 6 P.M. the pupils had to think about their sins. Almost everything could be considered a sin, from observing religious practices and not knowing the Chinese language or culture, to immoral behavior. Inmates who did not think of sins that were severe enough or didn’t make up something were punished.”
After supper, they would continue dealing with their sins. “When the pupils finished eating they were required to stand facing the wall with their hands raised and think about their crimes again. At 10 o’clock, they had two hours for writing down their sins and handing in the pages to those in charge. The daily routine actually went on until midnight, and sometimes the prisoners were assigned guard duty at night. The others could sleep from midnight until six.”
...The camp’s commanders set aside a room for torture, Sauytbay relates, which the inmates dubbed the “black room” because it was forbidden to talk about it explicitly. “There were all kinds of tortures there. Some prisoners were hung on the wall and beaten with electrified truncheons. There were prisoners who were made to sit on a chair of nails. I saw people return from that room covered in blood. Some came back without fingernails.”
...“I will give you an example. There was an old woman in the camp who had been a shepherd before she was arrested. She was taken to the camp because she was accused of speaking with someone from abroad by phone. This was a woman who not only did not have a phone, she didn’t even know how to use one. On the page of sins the inmates were forced to fill out, she wrote that the call she had been accused of making never took place. In response she was immediately punished. I saw her when she returned. She was covered with blood, she had no fingernails and her skin was flayed.”
...The fate of the women in the camp was particularly harsh, Sauytbay notes: “On an everyday basis the policemen took the pretty girls with them, and they didn’t come back to the rooms all night. The police had unlimited power. They could take whoever they wanted. There were also cases of gang rape. In one of the classes I taught, one of those victims entered half an hour after the start of the lesson. The police ordered her to sit down, but she just couldn’t do it, so they took her to the black room for punishment.”
Tears stream down Sauytbay’s face when she tells the grimmest story from her time in the camp. “One day, the police told us they were going to check to see whether our reeducation was succeeding, whether we were developing properly. They took 200 inmates outside, men and women, and told one of the women to confess her sins. She stood before us and declared that she had been a bad person, but now that she had learned Chinese she had become a better person. When she was done speaking, the policemen ordered her to disrobe and simply raped her one after the other, in front of everyone. While they were raping her they checked to see how we were reacting. People who turned their head or closed their eyes, and those who looked angry or shocked, were taken away and we never saw them again. It was awful. I will never forget the feeling of helplessness, of not being able to help her. After that happened, it was hard for me to sleep at night.”
There are up to 1 million Muslim Uyghers that are living in what the Chinese government refers to as re-education camps in China.[2] This is state sanctioned institutionalized oppression of an ethnic minority in China.
The camps were legalized by the Chinese government in October 2018.[3] Initially the Chinese government denied the existence of camps where people are being detained and tortured.[4] They are being physically [5] and mentally tortured.[6]
Millions of Uyghers are not free to practice their religion without fear of the Chinese government detaining and torturing them. They live in perpetual fear under martial law. The people are subjugated to near total surveillance with cameras watching their every move. The Chinese government monitors every aspect of the people's lives and if there is even the slightest bit of percieved dissent police arrest individuals and send them to camps. The surveillance is so bad that if an individual from the region has an international phone number saved on their phone or if they communicate with someone from abroad that individual is detained under suspicion and sent to a camp.[7] The entire population is DNA-sampled while communications are closely monitored. Privacy is nonexistent. Towns have turned into ghost towns as people fear to talk to one another or go out.[8]
1) Haarertz - A Million People Are Jailed at China's Gulags. I Managed to Escape. Here's What Really Goes on Inside
2) BBC - China Uighurs: One million held in political camps, UN told
3) BBC - China Uighurs: Xinjiang legalises 're-education' camps
4) The Guardian - From denial to pride: how China changed its language on Xinjiang's camps
5) Telegraph - 'I begged them to kill me', Uighur woman describes torture to US politicians
6) Washington Post - Former inmates of China’s Muslim ‘reeducation’ camps tell of brainwashing, torture
7) VICE News - Uighur parents say China is ripping their children away and brainwashing them
8) The National Review - A New Gulag in China