{"id":1634,"date":"2019-12-12T13:55:03","date_gmt":"2019-12-12T11:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/?p=1634"},"modified":"2021-09-03T20:06:48","modified_gmt":"2021-09-03T17:06:48","slug":"the-oppression-of-the-uyghurs-and-the-role-of-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/?p=1634","title":{"rendered":"The Oppression of the Uyghurs and the role of China"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Uyghurs is a Turkish ethnic population living in Eastern and Central Asia. The population of Uyghurs living in China and specifically in the autonomous province of Xinjiang, which the Uyghurs nationalists call Eastern Turkestan, is approaching 12m. This autonomous area of Uyghurs is rich in natural gas and coal and is strategically owned by the geopolitical chess board of China called “One Belt, One Road”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2009 ethnic unrest occurred in the Uyghur region with hundreds of dead, while in 2014 there was an attack of Uyghurs with knives at a railway station in the province of Yunnan, with 35 dead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

by Thanos S. Chonthrogiannis<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Map in the modern-day<\/strong> Xinjiang<\/strong> distrcts in red China<\/strong>
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It is an indisputable fact that Islamic terrorists are acting in regions of China benefiting from the Uyghurs\u2019 religion (Sunni Islam) and working closely with the Islamic State. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are not a few cases where Turkey has complained about the oppression suffered by the Uyghurs from China, and given that Turkey considers them to be the same ethnic tribes as the Turks, while networks of Islamists that help Islamic terrorists who they operate in the mainland of China and specifically in the region of Xinjiang they have their support bases in Turkey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oppression of the Uyghurs living in China<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For its part, China instead of implementing a policy of finding and\nclearing the specific Islamic terrorists operating under the roof of the\nUyghurs in China whose calling into question the Chinese sovereignty in this\nprovince of Chinese state, insists on deliberately identifying those protesting\nthe oppression from China with Islamic terrorists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the same time, the region of Xinjiang in China in which the Uyghurs live\nhas become the region in which both traditional and modern and\nultramodern-digital methods respectively are tested, for the control and\nsuppression of mass populations that in this case the population to be\nsuppressed is Uyghurs. Then both these methods and the ultra-modern control\ninstruments are applied to the rest of the Chinese mainland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Such measures and methods include digital monitoring of the population,\neither with digital facial and voice recognition cameras located in public\nplaces, with DNA taking or special programs on mobile phones used by the\npopulation and also by removing the Uighurs’ passports for the purpose of\nstrict restrictions on their movements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the same time, the Chinese government’s traditional control measures include the use of camps-centres of Uyghurs\u2019 “hospitality” in which, according to the official Chinese state, Uyghurs are re-trained. Reports that have seen the spotlight say that in the region of Xinjiang there are 28 such re-education camps that “host” about one million Uyghurs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Professor Ilham Tohti<\/strong>
Photo by Voice of America, Source: https:\/\/m.ba.voanem.com\/ licensed Public Domain<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The European Parliament recently (on December 10, 2019) awarded the Sakharov Prize for the protection of Free thought and Human rights to Uyghur economist and university professor Ilham Tohti. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But Ilham Tohti cannot receive his prize because he is being held in Chinese prisons with life imprisonment because Beijing (China) believed that his action to protect the human rights of the Uyghurs was at the expense of Chinese sovereignty in the region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The role of China<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Based on the Chinese government’s stance on the handling of demonstrators\nand their demands in Hong Kong and despite the fact that 90% of the seats of\nthe Hong-Kong Community Councils (Parliament) ended up in the Democratic\nopponents of the Hong-Kong government, proving that China has a fundamental\nobjection to the political sovereignty of Hong Kong, we can conclude that China\nis not going to release Ilham Tohti.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

China is emerging as a unique case where economic growth and social\nprogress has not caused the relaxation of the single-party power and control\nexercised by the Chinese Communist Party.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One possible explanation for this unique global phenomenon may be the\nhistorical preference of the Chinese people in group-type political systems but\nalso probably that the decades-long action and policy of the Communist Party of\nChina has it is vindicated in the perception and conscience of the Chinese\npeople.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As regards human rights issues and reforms on the political scene, it\nappears that China does not accept instructions from all those countries which\nare considered responsible for the suffering and tribulations that the Chinese\npeople forced to accept in the last centuries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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