From abc.net.au
"Olsi Jazexhi is a Canadian-Albanian historian and Islamic
scholar who visited Xinjiang in August as a guest of the Chinese Government. He
was sceptical of reports in Western media about the crackdown and wanted to see
for himself.
"But
his preconceptions were very quickly swept away by what he witnessed at a show
camp situated in Aksu district, bordering Kyrgyzstan.
"'This
vocational training centre, or what we call concentration camp, was a kind of
Alcatraz prison in the middle of the desert,' he said.
"And
he was under no illusions about what it was he was witnessing.
"'What
the Chinese are doing in Xinjiang at this moment is … a mass cultural
genocide,' he said.
Leaked documents show
government’s plans for rounding up and 're-educating”' Xinjiang Province
Muslims. Documents say officials must “show no mercy.”
"While the grounds for suspicion are not spelled out, a Xinjiang police notice published in 2014 listed
75 indicators of 'religious extremist'.
These included:
·
Owning a compass
·
Abstaining from
alcohol
·
Wailing, publicly
grieving or otherwise acting sad when your parents die
·
Not letting officials
scan your irises
·
Telling others not to
swear
·
Not allowing officials
to sleep in your bed, eat your food and live in your house
·
Being related to
anyone who has done any of the above.
In
other parts of China, the government wages a similar war against Christians,
closing church buildings and arresting Christians.
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