there's been international condemnation
of china after the bbc reporter claims
that women in so-called re-education
camps for the uyghur muslim minority
are being raped and tortured the british
and u.s governments are now calling on
beijing to allow
independent investigators into the camps
china has denied the allegations and
accused the bbc of making a false report
matthew hill has spoken to several
former detainees for his report
and you may find some of their accounts
distressing
tarzanai zai wooden is reliving a story
she can barely bring herself to tell she
was held at one of xinjiang's so-called
re-education camps
these satellite images show the site
where tezanai says she was hurled
sharing a cell with 13 other women she's
haunted by
one image masked men coming down a camp
corridor
like this one after midnight
they were three men not
one but three
they did whatever evil their mind could
think of
and they didn't spare any part of my
body
fighting it to the extent that it was
disgusting to look at
they didn't justify they were barbaric
they had beaten all over my body
the u.s have granted her safe refuge
after investigating her claims
she's waived her right to anonymity and
now feels
free to speak out about the full extent
of the abuse
she says she suffered
they had an electric pattern
i didn't know what it was
it was pushed into my private parts and
i was
tormented with electric shocks it's
estimated
over a million uyghurs and other muslims
are held in the camps
these never before broadcast pictures
were filmed secretly
in a camp under construction and
published by a magazine
on religious liberty many former camp
inmates flee to istanbul
some talk of being forced to choose
between punishment
or complicity in these crimes
chinese men would pay money to have
their pick of the pretty
young inmates
my job is to remove their clothes and
then handcuff them
on their beds so they cannot move
the testimony of the women we've
interviewed has sparked
international condemnation the u.s state
department said the atrocities they
describe
shock the conscience and tonight
president biden has revealed
human rights in china will be a priority
for his administration
here too in parliament today the
treatment of the women was condemned by
the foreign office
the evidence of the scale and the
severity
of these violations is now far-reaching
it paints a truly harrowing picture
if china wishes to dispute this evidence
then it must allow
unfettered access to the region for the
un high commissioner for human rights or
another independent fact-finding body
china has responded to our investigation
insisting its camps are vocational
training centers designed to stop
muslims living in the region from
turning to extremism
it accuses the bbc of lies and
misinformation
there is no so-called systemic sexual
assault and abuse against women
china is a country ruled by law our
constitution guarantees and protects
human rights
and it is embodied in our legal system
and the government's work
these women have spoken out about rape
which in their culture
is an unspoken crime because they want
their stories heard
it seems much of the world is listening
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