Breaking: the BBC publishes some of the most horrendous evidence yet of what happens in Xinjiang's camps. Endemic rape, brutal sexual torture of women, electric batons inserted into vaginas, Uyghur female detainees provided to Han men for a fee. bbc.com/news/world-asi…
"Chinese men would pay money to have their pick of the prettiest young inmates".
"They forced me to go into that room. They forced me to take off those women's clothes and to restrain their hands and leave the room."
"The woman took me to the room next to where the other girl had been taken in. They had an electric stick, I didn't know what it was, and it was pushed inside my genital tract, torturing me with an electric shock."
It is rare and very hard for Uyghur or Kazakh women to speak out about such intimate humiliation, especially on camera.
Tursunay Ziawudun says she recognized former female fellow detainees, now released, overcome by alcohol addictions in order to drown their pain. She would see them collapsed in a drunken state on public streets.
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BREAKING: for the 1st time, evidence of systemic forced labor affecting entire cotton production in Xinjiang (20% of world's cotton). Beijing mobilizes over 0.5 million Uyghurs pick to cotton by hand through coercive labor transfer programs. My report: /1 cgpolicy.org/briefs/coerciv…
The key source of coercion is Xinjiang's labor transfer program.
For an overview and conceptual framework of coercive labor and labor transfers in Xinjiang - into which the new evidence fits closely - see my previous research report: jpolrisk.com/beyond-the-cam… /2
Previously, we only had evidence for forced labor in low-skilled manufacturing, incl. textile production, and mostly anecdotal evidence of prison labor etc. in XPCC (bingtuan) cotton picking. U.S. recently banned XPCC cotton, but that is only 1/3 of Xinjiang's cotton. /3
A top-secret arrangement between Switzerland and China gave Chinese Ministry of Public Security agents unsupervised access to Switzerland (and possibly much of Europe) at Swiss' taxpayer's expense. theguardian.com/world/2020/dec…
Chinese MPS agents were given access to interview deportation targets, but were unsupervised and potentially had access to all Schengen countries.
The deal was kept so secret that even the Swiss parliament and foreign affairs committee did not know of its existence.
Moreover, once a mission was approved, China could choose its agents without requiring further Swiss approval.
Australia manages to produce "expert" analysis of its China row that doesn't account for China's *extensive* history of economic & political coercion to cover up HR abuses & further its political ends, w/ e.g. Norway, Sweden, S.Korea, Japan - ignoring key historic lessons.
Including threats to Germany (cars) over 5G, Turkey (tourism) over Uyghurs, and so on and so forth. Wouldn't any serious "research" need to look beyond Australia-China or Australian domestic dynamics?
Threats to Britain over 5G. The list just goes on.
THREAD: @AucklandUni complaint letter re @Anne_MarieBrady publication on NZ academic ties that could benefit China military research, denying allegations re AU Prof. Gao Wei. The letter's denials are factually incorrect, raising serious questions. drive.google.com/drive/u/0/fold…
AU's complaint states that Gao Wei never researched "quantum computing".
But Brady doesn't allege that. She alleges that Gao is involved in a military-related quantum computing project at China's University of Defense Technology (NUDT). Which he is.
NEW: Parent-Child Separation research report analyzes
new local government data from Yarkand (Kashgar), showing one county alone w/ over 10,000 Uyghur children in “hardship” due to one or both parents detained. 1,000 w/ both parents detained. link.medium.com/1bEEHSEwBab
The number of students in Xinjiang who live in boarding facilities grew by over 380,000 between 2017 and 2019, from about 500,000 to just below 900,000. An increase of nearly 80%, or 383,000, in the space of 2 years. Notably, right during the internment campaign.
Yarkand No.3 primary school is on a compound together with an orphanage building. A teacher writes that “[the orphanage] children also come to our school during the day and go back to the orphanage at night. The principal has to worry about their food and accommodation.”
NEW: Torment of the Uyghurs - Cover of the new Economist Magazine.
Based on new data provided by me to the Economist, showing that children of "double-detained" parents are put in orphanages or boarding schools. Xinjiang added 380,000 new boarding students btw 2017 and 2019.