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Communists always cry about religion controlling people, but remain silent on what the Chinese Communist Party has been doing to the Uyghurs. #FreeUyghurs #FreeTheAseer
Uyghur detainees are required to look straight ahead and not to speak with their classmates in these camps.
Uyghur detainees are required to look straight ahead and not to speak with their classmates in these camps.
Classes often involve memorizing and reciting “red” songs – that is, revolutionary songs that praise the CCP and the People’s Republic of China.
Teaching Chinese is a primary objective of the “education” that detainees received in the camps.
Teaching Chinese is a primary objective of the “education” that detainees received in the camps.
In addition to language classes, most former detainees reported attending some combination of history, law, and ideology classes or, as many former detainees referred to it, “political education”.
The classes focused on indoctrinating detainees about the “evils” of Islam and how prosperous, powerful, and “benevolent” China, the CCP, and President Xi Jinping are.
Yerulan, a former detainee said the classes were structured to prevent detainees from practising their religion:
Yerulan, a former detainee said the classes were structured to prevent detainees from practising their religion:
"I think the purpose [of the classes] was to destroy our religion and to assimilate us… They said that we couldn’t say ‘as-salamu alaykum’ and that if we were asked what our ethnicity was we should say ‘Chinese’…
They said that you could not go to Friday prayers… And that it was not Allah who gave you all, it was Xi Jinping. You must not thank Allah; you must thank Xi Jinping for everything."
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