Latest for @dw_chinese - On Monday, @adrianzenz published another groundbreaking research that revealed how #Beijing is carrying out a mass-sterilization program targeting #Uyghur women in #Xinjiang. I talked to him about the logics behind the program.
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"This particular research points a little bit to the direction of actual genocide since it ticked one of the criteria of the United Nation’s Convention on the Prevention of Genocide. There is evidence showing China has launched a mass suppression of births targeting the Uyghurs."
"This extremely draconian regime of population control gave an impression that China is enforcing existing family planning regulations. However, the evidence that I uncovered points to the fact that they are doing a lot more than enforcing existing family planning regulations."
"The evidence from government documents are very blatant about placement targets about intrauterine contraceptive devices."
"My research shows that the greatest decline of birth rates takes place in rural Uyghur counties in Xinjiang. One of the prefectures set a near zero population growth target for 2020, which is unheard of."
"The program of offering free birth prevention surgical services specifically targets the rural population in Southern Xinjiang, which has a large Uyghur population."
"Some of the most draconian policy documents that threaten internment for women who don’t comply with the government program are from minority counties."
"I’m cautiously inclined to use the term “demographic genocide,” meaning that we have the particular aspect of genocide. The dramatic prevention of minority births is taking place in the context of two million new permanent residents arriving in Xinjiang between 2015 and 2018."
"All of them settled in Urumqi or in the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corp’s regions. We don’t have the exact data but we must assume they are Han Chinese from outside of Xinjiang."
"There is a three-pronged strategy. There is a promotion of incoming Han settlers who were promised land, well-paying jobs, monthly living subsidies and even free housing."
"They are also promoting inter-racial marriage between Han Chinese and Uyghurs. Thirdly, they also launched a massive suppression of minority births. Those three in tandem are like a strategy of racial supremacy."
"We need to keep in mind that the internment camp network is a vast network of vast extrajudicial internment facilities, some of which have nothing to do with vocational training camps."
"We also have limited understanding about the nightlight data from some re-education camps in Xinjiang, which contradicts with Beijing’s claims that Uyghurs detained in the camps have been released at massive numbers."
"The situation is ongoing, and the sense is that China is more ruthlessly establishing long-term control mechanisms in the societies."
"The international community’s responsibility is very clear, and the first step is to speak out about what has been happening. However, even that hasn’t happened. Speaking out has been muted and it is half-hearted at best."
"Mechanisms available now include the @UN GA and the @ipacglobal. The alliance issued a statement on my research findings and explicitly called for an @UN inquiry in order to determine the nature of the atrocity, be it a form of genocide or crimes against humanity."
