Talk:Xinjiang reeducation camps/Temp2

The camps are known as "Professional Education Schools", and were set up in early 2017 as "Counter-extremism Training Schools".

The camp have been observed as to criminalizing the entire culture and separating families. Descriptions like "eradicating tumors" and "spraying chemicals on crops to kill the weeds" are also used to describe the situation by local officials.

Background

Chen Quanguo use "bury the corpses of terrorists in the vast sea of a people’s war." to describe his tactics, which can be interpreted as to "drown a few combatants has pulled thousands of innocent people under in its wake".

History of reeducation

Pre Chen Quanguo

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• Before 2014 reedu camp was exclusively used in falun gong /party discipline/drug addict
• development into network of dedicated facilities in 2014
• three-tiered (county/township/village) "transformation through education base" (教育转化基地) system in Konasheher County, Kashgar Prefecture

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Chen Quanguo period

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• Hardliner Chen Quanguo move from Tibet to Xinjiang for stability
• Copy policy from Tibet to Xinjiang
• Mass increase in police force, up to around 500 police officers per every 100,000 inhabitants.

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• Official information from government procurement and construction bids (采购项目和建设项目).
• Implications from source URL

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Evidence

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• list of, and values of, facilities related to the project

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• Detail description of those tender notices

Soucre:

Approval opinion for the environmental impact report on Atush vocational skills training center project

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• facility requiremenets

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• Surveillance system emphasis with “no dead angles” (无死角).
• Other vocational/educational training facilities likely related

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Public information

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• Relocation of hundreds of detainee due to severe overcrowding per a local fireman.

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Former employee

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• The case of Sayragul Sauytbay
  • China request deportation back to China

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Number of camps and detainees

Camps

University of British Columbia student Shawn Zhang uses satellite images to track suspected Chinese re-education centres where Uyghurs are imprisoned. He is looking for re-education camps in Xinjiang, the Chinese region where, scholars estimate, hundreds of thousands of mainly Muslim people have been forced to undergo political indoctrination. What Mr. Zhang has found has given the Chinese-born University of British Columbia law student, 28, an important role in documenting a system that Chinese authorities call “vocational skills training,” but critics liken to military prisons. The most important sources are government reports that are often published by local media. These include official government documents, for example travel reports from top officials, or budgetary reports that outline expenditures for facilities.

Detainees

No official data about the number of person detained in these camps are available. There are reports of hundreds of thousands of Uighurs being detained without trial in “re-education camps” in the province. Beijing has implemented a comprehensive surveillance system. A leaked document from local public security agencies indicate a detention rate of up to 11.5 percent of the region’s adult Uyghur and Kazakh population in the area, when extrapolated to all of Xinjiang it could mean just over one million people have been detained in these camps. In these detention centers, Muslim members of ethnic minority groups are brainwashed, indoctrinated, made to report on neighbors and family members.

Since 2014, Xinjiang has been the frontline of a controversial crackdown on terrorism that has been criticized by human rights advocates for targeting members of the Uyghur ethnic minority, and exacerbating ethnic tensions in the region.

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• Punish family as an SOP against different individuals (past record of Chinese government)
• Rebiya Kadeer's situation
• Uighurs being rounded up, taken away, disappeared, without any information about their location or status

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• Death of Abdughappar Abdujappa and another Uyghur woman in Bayanday township and a young man there due to camps (see source)

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Treatment

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• Camps are extralegal

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• "Physically and mentally tortured" to "quash religious beliefs and any potential separatist movements"

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• Side effect of these camps

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• Procedure of Arrest, Interrogation, Dispatched to camps

Chinese reaction

Local officials from different parts of the region have responded to foreign media telephone interviews that claimed a significant numbers of Uyghurs have been sent to the camps, along with overcrowding phenomenon in some facilities.