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    Summary

    This investigative report delves into the ongoing persecution and human rights abuses against the Uyghur population in China's Xinjiang region. The Chinese government, under the guise of combating extremism, has initiated repressive measures targeting the Uyghur's cultural, religious, and ethnic identity. This documentary highlights the harrowing experiences of those interned in re-education camps where torture, forced sterilization, and indoctrination are rampant. It reveals the extent of China's surveillance, forced labor policies, and efforts to manipulate demographics to suppress Uyghur prominence, underlining the global geopolitical indifference towards this quiet genocide.

      Highlights

      • Re-education camps are sites of torture, forced sterilization, and indoctrination targeting Uyghurs. ๐Ÿ˜ข
      • Xinjiang, rich in natural resources, is heavily militarized and monitored by the Chinese state. ๐Ÿ’ผ
      • Uyghurs are subject to intense surveillance, limiting personal freedoms and erasing cultural identity. ๐Ÿ‘€
      • Reports of forced labor have linked global companies to exploitative practices in Xinjiang. ๐Ÿ‘ทโ€โ™‚๏ธ
      • The international community's response is limited, highlighting the complex geopolitical influences at play. ๐ŸŒ

      Key Takeaways

      • The Chinese government has launched a systemic effort to erase Uyghur culture through re-education camps and forced assimilation. ๐Ÿšซ
      • Massive surveillance and security measures have been implemented in Xinjiang, turning it into a high-tech police state. ๐Ÿ“น
      • Uyghurs face various human rights abuses, including torture, forced labor, and forced sterilisation. ๐Ÿ’”
      • Despite international condemnations, China's economic power has led to a muted global response. ๐ŸŒ
      • The Chinese government's policies in Xinjiang aim to alter the demographic makeup, making Uyghurs a minority in their own land. ๐Ÿ”„

      Overview

      In the stunning yet oppressive landscape of Xinjiang, the Uyghur population faces unprecedented repression by Chinese authorities. This documentary from Investigate Asia sheds light on the drastic measures taking place under President Xi Jinping's regime. Uyghurs are being detained en masse in re-education camps where they face torture, indoctrination, and human rights abuses that some global leaders call genocide.

        The Chinese government's strategic plan involves transforming Xinjiang into a surveillance-heavy police state complete with smart cameras, biometric monitoring, and day-to-day scrutiny. This effort is aimed at eradicating Uyghur identity and integrating the region more fully with the stateโ€™s Han population, leading to drastic demographic changes.

          Despite sporadic condemnation from international actors, the global community has been largely ineffective in addressing these atrocities due to China's critical position in the world economy. The investigative piece underscores the grim reality and challenges surrounding Xinjiang while calling for a greater global reckoning with these human rights violations.

            Chapters

            • 00:00 - 01:00: Introduction and Tourist Facade The chapter introduces the setting of a locale that experiences extreme heat in the summer, with an annual event taking place at the end of spring.
            • 01:00 - 03:00: Internment Camps and Government Actions The chapter discusses the tourism industry in the Heavenly mountains of China's Xinjiang region. Tourists are attracted to the area's natural beauty, including Tian Shan lake with its snowy peaks and the red sandstone canyons, sites that were once traversed by Silk Road caravans. However, amidst these picturesque settings, there are strict regulations for visitors, as indicated by the requirement to turn off smartphones and cameras when back on the bus. This implies a controlled environment possibly linked to broader governmental actions or policies relevant to the region.
            • 03:00 - 05:00: Historical Context and Regional Importance The chapter discusses the historical context and regional importance of an area potentially targeted by mass tourism. Despite local authorities praising tourism, they maintain tight control over visitors from China. Recent revelations have uncovered a stark contrast to the tourist-friendly imageโ€”showing internment camps, prisoner convoys, and testimonies of torture, rape, and forced sterilization. The government targets a specific demographic, suggesting broader human rights abuses.
            • 05:00 - 07:00: Repression of Uyghur Culture and Religion This chapter discusses the harsh repression faced by the Uyghur community, a Muslim-majority group. It mentions serious issues such as disappearances, arrests, and summary judgments that have impacted millions of people.
            • 07:00 - 10:00: Surveillance and Control Measures The chapter discusses the dire situation faced by the Uyghur population in China, who are subject to severe abuses and human rights violations, including being placed in concentration camps. The text highlights the international recognition of these abuses as genocide, noting that around a million Uyghurs are detained under harsh and inhumane conditions. The chapter further delves into the motivations behind China's policies, suggesting an attempt to eradicate Uyghur identity, including their language, culture, history, and religion, as part of a broader strategy of surveillance and control.
            • 10:00 - 13:00: Leaked Documents and International Reaction The chapter titled 'Leaked Documents and International Reaction' focuses on the actions and intentions of the Chinese Communist Party concerning the situation in Xinjiang. It suggests that the ultimate goal of these actions is to eliminate an entire ethnic group. The chapter delves into the specifics of a strategic plan implemented by the party, providing insight into the severity and intention behind these measures, which have caught international attention.
            • 13:00 - 16:00: Forced Assimilation and Targeted Policies This chapter delves into the topic of forced assimilation and targeted policies with a focus on the Uyghur population in Xinjiang, China's westernmost region. It introduces the geographical context by highlighting that Xinjiang is located more than 2,500 km away from the eastern, central parts of China.
            • 16:00 - 19:30: Global Reactions and Conclusion The chapter 'Global Reactions and Conclusion' discusses Beijing's central political role in China and highlights the strategic importance of the Xinjiang region. Xinjiang, with its capital at Urumchi, is notably the largest region in China, surpassing France in size by threefold. It borders eight countries, including significant Muslim neighbors like Pakistan and Afghanistan. The region's abundant natural resources make it crucial to China's economic and industrial development.

            The Uyghurs Tragedy: Inside China's quiet Genocide | Investigate Asia Transcription

            • 00:00 - 00:30 [Music] each year at the end of spring before extreme heat makes the place unbearable
            • 00:30 - 01:00 tourists flock to the Heavenly mountains in China's sing Jang [Music] region there's nothing more Chic than a Selfie by Tian Shan lake with its Snowy Peaks or a ride in a military vehicle in the red Sandstone canyons in these Sumptuous settings where Silk Road Caravans once traveled but once back on the bus smartphones and cameras must be turned
            • 01:00 - 01:30 off local authorities praise Mass tourism but exert complete control over these Chinese visitors their memories and their potential Publications that's because in recent years other images of sing Jang have emerged they have revealed a very different reality internment camps and prisoner convoys survivors from these camps have reported torture rape and forced sterilization the government's taret marget weor the inhabitants of
            • 01:30 - 02:00 sang a Muslim majority [Music] population disappearances arrests summary judgments millions of people
            • 02:00 - 02:30 fear for their lives and the lives of their families political leaders no longer shy away from calling these abuses genocide a million Wagers as you pointed out Muslims are in concentration camps that's what they are right now they're being abused they're in concentration camps why have Chinese leaders decided to persecute this Region's population they're trying to wipe out wier's identity language culture history religion the Chinese government have
            • 02:30 - 03:00 made themselves pretty clear through their own actions their ultimate goal is to wipe out an entire ethnicity to better understand the tragedy taking place in sing Jang we probed into the action plan rolled out by the Chinese Communist Party designed to wipe out this ethnic minority
            • 03:00 - 03:30 [Music] the we gor's territory is sing Jang China's westernmost region a little over 2,500 km separate
            • 03:30 - 04:00 Beijing the political heart of the People's Republic of China from urumchi the capital of sing Jang the biggest region in China three times the size of France sing Jang forms a border between China and eight countries including two large Muslim countries Pakistan and Afghanistan rich in natural resources this region is vital to China's economic and Industrial
            • 04:00 - 04:30 growth sparsely populated sing Jang is home to several ethnic minorities kazaks H kagis Mongols tajiks USCS and notably 11 million weor considered to be the regions indigenous people these Turkish speaking people have been settled here for centuries and have never felt themselves to be Chinese the weor have much more in common with the peoples of Central Asia than they do with the Han Chinese people
            • 04:30 - 05:00 uh culturally historically linguistically they share a lot of commonalities with the people of uh former Soviet Central Asia the USCS the kazaks and so on in fact many of those people also inhabit the weor region of China demographically the Chinese nation is divided into 56 ethnic groups quite an unbalanced Mosaic in fact
            • 05:00 - 05:30 China is a country that is cut in two the eastern part is where most Han Chinese live concentrated in major Urban centers they make up 92% of China's population to the west and North there are vast regions that are home to many ethnic groups among them Tibetans Mongols weor and other turkic speakers 60% of China's natural resources are located in these territories inhabited by ethnic minorities
            • 05:30 - 06:00 there are now almost as many Han Chinese in sing Jang as there are weor this is the result of migration organized by the Chinese Communist Party since 1949 it has sped up significantly since president cing ping came to power the weor condemn the hand colonization of their territory and have been fighting for decades to preserve their identity religion and culture you it's
            • 06:00 - 06:30 for to better assimilate the weor the Chinese Communist Party decided to portray its own Constitution and attack the Bedrock of weor culture and identity is
            • 06:30 - 07:00 [Music] [Applause] [Music] Islam in sing Jang going to the mosque having a beard wearing a hijab or keeping a Quran at home can lead to arrest and sometimes prison in China people may only worship the Chinese Communist Party particularly in sing Jang where social stability is Absol absolutely
            • 07:00 - 07:30 vital to the government the region is essential to the country's growth its land contains 1/3 of China's coal oil and gas reserves sing Jang also produces 20% of the world's cotton and that's not all in 2013 the Chinese president launched his colossal project the belt and Road initiative this includes a new 10,000 km Rail and Road Network work connecting China to Europe through
            • 07:30 - 08:00 Central Asia in China sing Jang is the main crossing point for these new trade [Music] routes fash so pragmatic Chinese leaders decided to work to secure the region in order to better exploit its resources even if it meant sacrificing the people
            • 08:00 - 08:30 fore
            • 08:30 - 09:00 [Applause] for of course the Chinese leaders dream isn't shared by the weor they have always resisted what they see as an occupation by the H over the years there have been violent clashes between the two ethnic groups
            • 09:00 - 09:30 some weor have decided to radicalize their struggle attacking hand Chinese in other regions on October the 28th 2013 there was a suicide attack in the Chinese capitals tianan square a car with sing Jang plates deliberately drove into the crowd killing two people and wounding 40 before exploding a few months later on March
            • 09:30 - 10:00 the 1st 2014 King station in yunan Province was attacked six men and two women described by official media as weor terrorists stabbed 31 people to death members of the national people's Congress observed a minute silence in homage to the cuning victims siing ping declared war on the three scores poisoning China separatism EXT ex ISM and
            • 10:00 - 10:30 terrorism the weor must become loyal to the Chinese Communist party or else disappear siing Ping's retaliation was Swift one month after the king attack he went to sing Jang the region he says is the front line of terrorism visiting a kashgar police station in southern sing Jang he encouraged his troops groups to strike
            • 10:30 - 11:00 the regime's enemies hard in the fight against terrorism [Music]
            • 11:00 - 11:30 [Applause] [Music] on the last day of the Chinese president's visit a knife and bomb attack killed three and wounded 79 in sing jang's Capital urumchi Chinese leaders retaliated using the weapon they wield best fear it was no longer the good to be a weor in sing
            • 11:30 - 12:00 Jang Beijing turned the region into a police state launching a campaign of repression against the weor but no one knew what was happening there the region became almost inaccessible to foreigners neither diplomats nor human rights activists could go there [Music] freely since 2014 the Communist Regime
            • 12:00 - 12:30 has imposed absolute secrecy regarding their actions against the weor sing Jang became an information black [Music] hole except within the weor diaspora particularly in the US where rumors began to circulate China had allegedly opened huge re-education camps in sing Jang in which thousands of weor would be in [Music]
            • 12:30 - 13:00 turned this is Radio free Asia from Washington DC one day in March 2017 a weor journalist exiled in Washington managed to shed some light on the matter shet OSHA left sing Jang for the US almost 30 years ago despite the distance he remains one of the best informed people about the fate of his
            • 13:00 - 13:30 compatriots in Washington he hosts weor content on Radio free Asia a pro-democratic station funded by the US Congress destined for Asian peoples oppressed by an authoritarian regime spee for
            • 13:30 - 14:00 foree foree forch foree in sang We who receive inter AAL phone calls are immediately arrested so
            • 14:00 - 14:30 to contact them shet disguised his voice and the origin of his calls foree speech for speech
            • 14:30 - 15:00 one day he managed to talk to an official in southern sing [Music] Jang for the very first time a Chinese official had confirmed mass incarceration in sing Jang [ย __ย ] U's Revelations triggered the ra of the Chinese authorities in retaliation they
            • 15:00 - 15:30 targeted his family members still in sing Jang one of his brothers disappeared another got five years of forced labor
            • 15:30 - 16:00 for [Music] foree shet osu's scoop was just the start of a series of damning Revelations for the Chinese government [Music]
            • 16:00 - 16:30 for his safety our meeting with German researcher Adrien Zen was held in a discret location in the US Midwest the discoveries made by this Anthropologist an expert on social policies have made him the bane of the Chinese superpower for months Zen Unearthed signs of these mass interments in thousands of pages of official documents ments available on the internet
            • 16:30 - 17:00 [Music] [Music]
            • 17:00 - 17:30 in scouring official documents Zen found calls for tenders for the construction of what Chinese authorities call professional training centers but the required equipment caught the researchers attention
            • 17:30 - 18:00 when he analyzed the data he found in
            • 18:00 - 18:30 2017 Adrien Zen estimated that dozens of camps were being built mainly in rural areas in southern sing jjang by his calculations up to 1 million people could be interned there satellite photos reveal the proliferation of camps here in kashgar this vast Detention Center reportedly has the capacity to accommodate 10,000 detainees [Music] by the summer of 2018 thanks to this
            • 18:30 - 19:00 series of Revelations no one could be left unaware of the terrible human rights violations in sing Jang there was no doubt that the camps existed at the United Nations some were determined to ask China to account for them a Chinese delegation was expected at the un's European headquarters to present the measures China planned to put in place to fight racial discrimination
            • 19:00 - 19:30 the Chinese delegation denied the
            • 19:30 - 20:00 existence of re-education camps but admitted to opening professional training centers with the intention of fighting extremism through education and work the Chinese authorities opposed what they called unbearable meddling in its Internal Affairs and manipulation by the enemies of the People's Republic
            • 20:00 - 20:30 in sing Jang a few foreign reporters outsmarted police surveillance and managed to sneak some footage fortified enclosures with barbed wire and watchtowers surveillance cameras these images corroborated what Adrien Zen had uncovered in official documents new satellite images showed the proliferation of camps throughout the region in 2020 Australian researchers identified 380 new ones
            • 20:30 - 21:00 according to Adrian's Zen's there may be 1,300 to 1,400 of them in total during construction guards and site workers posted a few images from inside these buildings that the Chinese call professional training [Music] centers some of these videos escaped the notice of Chinese sensors they don't show classrooms but but rather cells and torture
            • 21:00 - 21:30 chambers for speech fore
            • 21:30 - 22:00 for omia the torture lasted 7 months and 10 days before his arrest like many weor he lived and worked in neighboring kazak
            • 22:00 - 22:30 in Spring 2017 he went to sing Jang to attend a Trade Fair there he was arrested and intered in a camp the authorities accused him of having separatist ideas now a refugee in the Netherlands he's reunited with his family but hasn't forgotten anything of what he went [Music] through fore
            • 22:30 - 23:00 foreign speech fore spe foreign [Applause] spech fore spee for spee
            • 23:00 - 23:30 speech fore [Music] for foreign foreign foreign spee foreign spech fore foreign
            • 23:30 - 24:00 foreign foreign foreign foree speech foree [Music] spee foreign forign
            • 24:00 - 24:30 speech foreign speech foreign speech foree was going
            • 24:30 - 25:00 foree for omia owes his salvation to diplomats in Kazakhstan where he had become a citizen the torture and humiliations he describes are the definition of brainwashing a term and Method invented
            • 25:00 - 25:30 in China in the [Music] 1950s after the tianan Square massacre in 1989 a former executive decided to leave the party and take refuge in the US where he now teaches political science caming says Chinese leaders methodically use an old communist technique in sing for
            • 25:30 - 26:00 [Music]
            • 26:00 - 26:30 hunger isn't the only weapon Camp Gods use to subjugate the population tunai zudan posed no threat however
            • 26:30 - 27:00 Chinese authorities disapproved of her too frequent trips to Kazakhstan and saw her faith in Islam as excessive she was subjected to 11 months of re-education when she got there the guards shaved her head and made her wear a uniform she knew from the beginning that she'd go through hell
            • 27:00 - 27:30 [Music] speech speech foreign foreign spee foreign foreign fore speech foreign speech
            • 27:30 - 28:00 foree for speech fore speech forch fore spee
            • 28:00 - 28:30 for for speeech spe speech for speech speech foreign speech
            • 28:30 - 29:00 thanks to her kazak husband tunai was released but she remains severely affected before leaving the camp she had to promise she'd never speak of what happened [Music]
            • 29:00 - 29:30 but there are also Brave citizens in China who disapprove of the torment the party is subjecting weor to in Autumn 2019 when sing Jang was still cut off by Chinese censorship an anonymous source sent the New York Times Vital Information over 400 pages of internal Chinese Communist Party documents they contained a great many official
            • 29:30 - 30:00 investigations and directives reports on surveillance and control of the weor population statements by high-ranking Communists and lastly 96 pages of a speech made by President C jingping himself in it one can read the official orders he gave during his visit to sing Jiang 4 years earlier these leaked documents the sing Jang papers confirmed the implementation of a vast concentration Camp system decided at the
            • 30:00 - 30:30 highest level of the Communist hierarchy in these top secret documents we learn that the Chinese president while addressing Regional authorities compared religious extremism to a virus and to an evil drug Sie jingping stated that the fight against the scorge would require a long and painful treatment and that the Chinese Communist Party would have to use all the tools of dictatorship to overcome it coming from the mouth of the
            • 30:30 - 31:00 Chinese president it meant extreme actions were authorized he even urged the local authorities to show absolutely no mercy in Chinese leaders Minds it's about treating evil with evil a radical stance approved of by many Han intellectuals like Shen dingley a university professor and government adviser
            • 31:00 - 31:30 for
            • 31:30 - 32:00 to track down all those with this ideological virus the party put the population of sing jjang Under surveillance in China the party has eyes and ears everywhere in every District neighborhood Factory and building but in sing Jang even more so than elsewhere the dictatorship has deployed its most powerful
            • 32:00 - 32:30 tools so-called smart cameras facial recognition Biometrics digital spying since the launch of the repression campaign in 2014 the population of this Chinese Far West has become the most monitored in the world one of the things the Chinese State talks about in terms of particular surveillance programming but really this is the same thing about their reeducation program is they call it
            • 32:30 - 33:00 preventative policing the idea that this person's not yet an extremist they're not yet a terrorist but we can see that they might become one so we need to act now State surveillance in Shin Jang is pervasive but maybe it's easier to think about it in sort of a thre dimens itional every day s imagine for example
            • 33:00 - 33:30 a QR code has been placed outside your front door so that authorities can stop by and scan that code to see who's registered to live there and then knock on the door and see if the right people are there or maybe the wrong people are there everyone is a suspect everywhere all the time pretexting the fight against terrorism the party has criminalized all sorts of behavior in
            • 33:30 - 34:00 sing Jang local leaders Drew up a list of 75 signs of radicalization top of the list advocating the secession of sing Jang and the creation of an Islamic State of East turkistan but other much more mundane behaviors are seen as reprehensible suddenly stopping drinking or smoking boycotting cultural or sporting events or closing your restaurant during [Music]
            • 34:00 - 34:30 Ramadan this list gives law enforcement a lot of room for [Music] interpretation despite the Arsenal of surveillance in sing Jang there remained a blind spot to which the Communist Party had no access families private lives so the party had an idea
            • 34:30 - 35:00 because Han Chinese and weor don't necessarily get along they would need to be forced to get to know each other Chinese leaders organized ethnic Unity weeks once a month weor families get a visit from a hand Chinese person who stays with them for a few days in videos shared on social media everyone looks very happy [Music]
            • 35:00 - 35:30 [Music] in reality these fake Chinese friends are there to judge the family members loyalty to the party it was very clear that it also was for surveillance purposes you know to see who was living at home who wasn't there how religious were they did the
            • 35:30 - 36:00 children speak Chinese or weager you know all of this data gets recorded and can you imagine having officials from the ruling party in your country move into your house and sit at your dinner table and sleep in your bed with you Uninvited you know particularly in a culture that is still reasonably conservative so when high-tech surveillance fails
            • 36:00 - 36:30 don't worry the party is there to make sure that they're keeping an eye on you even in lowtech ways [Music] too since 2016 the Communist party has sent more than 1 million Han into sang homes homes with no remaining signs of weor culture this is the Communist party's big project arase the weor identity to better
            • 36:30 - 37:00 replace [Music] it almost nothing remains of the old Majestic Silk Road City of kashgar in place of the ancient caravaner one finds motorways buildings and waste [Music] ground we uh estimate and this is only an estimate that around onethird of important weager uh sacred sites shrines
            • 37:00 - 37:30 Moss cemeteries uh had been destroyed uh in in whole uh and another one-third had been damaged in a significant way it's an effort to uh to to re-engineer uh the weaker people to transform them in the image of the Han
            • 37:30 - 38:00 majority using satellite images these Australian researchers also discovered that 100 cemeteries had been wiped off the map The Remains taken from their traditional Graves now lie in Anonymous brick tombs the names of the deceased have been replaced by a number there's nothing better to make a people amnesia
            • 38:00 - 38:30 in axu the cemetery in which an illustrious weor poet was buried was removed to make way for the city of Joy an ambitious Urban project usually it's explained as some kind of development they need to build something there but often these places are replaced with simply a parking lot and it seems to speak to really a much more pointed and intentional attempt to uh undermine the history to eliminate
            • 38:30 - 39:00 the basis of weager culture and it's clearly not about terrorism it's clearly not about religious extremism um it's it's clearly much deeper and much more of a broad spectrum attack on on werness or on you know non-and culture generally
            • 39:00 - 39:30 these abuses against the weor culture and population in sing Jang are being characterized as cultural genocide by some researchers a term with no legal basis but which does make Chinese intentions crystal clear to AR raise 11 million people the equivalent of the population of Belgium or Cuba inside sing Jang no one is able to blow the whistle anymore the Chinese authorities have made sure to silence
            • 39:30 - 40:00 everyone they see as their main enemies intellectuals University professors poets and musicians for
            • 40:00 - 40:30 [Music] no weor child can escape this but the
            • 40:30 - 41:00 party isn't stopping there since 2018 children of prisoners are taken from their families and put in institutions where they're raised according to party Doctrine this video shows a young weor proudly singing a patriotic Chinese song this is C Jing Ping's dream in 2021 the Chinese president gave his
            • 41:00 - 41:30 orders we must plant in the heart of each child from the age of six love for the party the country and socialism in sing Jang the new generation must consider itself first and foremost Chinese and the sooner the better because the leader doesn't want to waste any [Music] time in the North north of the region Han have become the majority and the
            • 41:30 - 42:00 capital urumchi looks like any other Chinese City but in the rural traditional South weor still make up more than 50% of the population so in order to boost the number of hand Chinese Chinese authorities must now meet specific demographic Targets in 5 years time the weor population of the South must also become the minority in order to achieve this the party implements radical
            • 42:00 - 42:30 [Music] policies
            • 42:30 - 43:00 for of g n In tha n d uh
            • 43:00 - 43:30 [Music] for and yet the nation needs children the celestial Empire is aging and the renewal of generations is uncertain today the one child policy has been abolished throughout China except in
            • 43:30 - 44:00 singan where having more than one child can get you sent to [Music] prison Beijing is innovative in its policies designed to reduce the weor population the party even promotes its good ideas on television this scene took place in a tiny village in southern sang [Music]
            • 44:00 - 44:30 the loudspeakers summon the inhabitants to the Courtyard of the people's Hall a textile company from Eastern China has made a very long trip to recruit 100 workers here those interested need only write their names in a register two days go by no volunteers come forward
            • 44:30 - 45:00 the team from the factory all hand Chinese go looking for applicants at their homes their target young childless women buap 19 has no desire to go and her parents are also against it
            • 45:00 - 45:30 The Village Chiefs insist to no avail refuses fore fore
            • 45:30 - 46:00 speeech after thinking it over for a few days the young weor woman agrees and the factory leaves with its quota of workers the report presents this outcome as a win for the party in its bid to help minorities Escape poverty and divert them from separatist thoughts
            • 46:00 - 46:30 [Music] in fact the main goal is to displace the population particularly women to provinces where they'll be more likely to start a family with a hand this pernicious method will eventually reduce the weor population in sing Jang as ordered by the government what the report doesn't mention is that refusing a job is one of the 75 signs of
            • 46:30 - 47:00 radicalization the truth is that buap didn't really have a choice this young woman is just one victim along with tens of thousands of other weor of a state organized forced labor [Music] plan the weor diaspora have spread several videos on social media showing groups of workers gathered Outside The
            • 47:00 - 47:30 Villages before being sent in convoys to factories all over China in a report published in 2020 a group of Australian researchers estimated that at least 880,000 weor have thus been shipped out of sang in the wegers for sale report we uh linked uh over 80 Global multinational companies uh to uh Supply chains that
            • 47:30 - 48:00 could contain wagered Force labor in them um now Supply chains are very complicated uh some of these companies are like Nike Apple leading multinational companies that have very complicated Supply chains but if you trace them down the line we found that uh some of their suppliers do participate in these uh uh labor transfer programs that include weaker workers in the camps the prisoners are also made
            • 48:00 - 48:30 to work they're used as labor in workshops built close to the detention centers
            • 48:30 - 49:00 forced labor sterilization arbitrary detention destruction of Heritage orian surveillance as ordered by ging ping the party is using all the tools of dictatorship to mercilessly eliminate
            • 49:00 - 49:30 all those who resist [Music] it give me answer fascist China terrorist China give me answer F China come to here you got me new concentration C like 90 of my family
            • 49:30 - 50:00 members give me answer where are they as your life died ofation come give me answer first China you [Music] China once a week abdur IMI yells with rage beneath the windows of Chinese diplomats in the ha
            • 50:00 - 50:30 19 members of his family disappeared during Chen chuang's roundups for months Genny kept silent he didn't dare protest for fear his family would face retaliation then one day he realized that Bejing was relying on his silence and that of the weor diaspora
            • 50:30 - 51:00 for speeech for speech foreign fore foreign fore fore fore
            • 51:00 - 51:30 fore 2020 several groups of exiled weor filed a complaint for crimes against humanity and genocide at the international criminal court in the hag sing ping could personally be indicted to date however Beijing has not reacted
            • 51:30 - 52:00 China doesn't recognize this independent Court's Authority and continues its unscrupulous systematic persecution of the weor population
            • 52:00 - 52:30 the power struggle between human rights defending countries and allies of sieging ping is escalating in the Autumn of 2020 39 Western countries condemned
            • 52:30 - 53:00 the repression of weor in sing Jang and demanded that China allow International observers to visit in retaliation 45 countries friendly to China got behind Beijing among them many Muslim countries historical partners with China like Pakistan where China is financing major infrastructure for the development of the belt and Road initiative more recently in the spring of 2021 the European Union the United Kingdom and Canada imposed sanctions on four
            • 53:00 - 53:30 high ranking officials in sing Jang accused of grave offenses against human rights and a major China EU investment agreement has been frozen all over the world Chinese diplomats are showing their Clause due to these sanctions their spokesperson in Beijing was even more threatening
            • 53:30 - 54:00 [Music] for
            • 54:00 - 54:30 [Music] for
            • 54:30 - 55:00 for today China is the main trading partner of 130 countries including 10 in the EU economically inescapable China seems to enjoy a solid impunity despite the timid reactions of a few major Democratic countries the International Community is maintaining a complicit
            • 55:00 - 55:30 silence the persecutor of weor seems to have a bright [Music] future oh