Uyghurs & Other Muslim Minorities Forced into Labor Programs to Work in Chinese Factories
In China, a shocking new exposé has revealed that Chinese authorities
are systematically forcing Muslims — mostly Uyghurs and Kazakhs — into
labor programs to supply Chinese factories with a cheap and compliant
workforce. The New York Times investigation, based on official
documents, interviews and visits to the far-western region of Xinjiang,
reveals a sweeping program to push poor farmers, villagers and small
traders into sometimes months-long training courses before assigning
them to low-wage factory work. The programs work in tandem with
indoctrination camps where an estimated 1 million adults from the Uyghur
community are being imprisoned. China claims its labor programs are
“vocational training centers” designed to combat extremism and alleviate
poverty, while Uyghur activists say they are part of China’s ongoing
campaign to strip them of their language and community and to carry out
cultural genocide. We speak with Austin Ramzy, a New York Times reporter
who co-authored the recent exposé, and Nury Turkel, a Uyghur-American
attorney and board chair at the Uyghur Human Rights Project.
What’s important to note that the Uyghurs and Kazakhs have become a minority in their own indigenous lands (where they’ve been for thousands of years & long before china invaded) but they weren’t for most of human history. This has come about due to CCP (Chinese Communist Party) engaging in full scale colonization of the region by importing in Han Chinese by the millions. This is while Uyghurs and other ethnicity’s are not even allowed to flee China but are being forced to undergo the persecution of the CCP A recent New York Times
exposé on Uyghur slave labor revealed how people were being forced to leave behind careers and business so that the CCP can claim the unlivable pittance of s salary these people have to take is poverty alleviation - just like they have to smile for the camera in public and claim they have freedom while in reality they can’t leave these labor programs.This is the reality of what “Made In China” really means.
