based on reports and satellite images
before after images of the camp size
and the the programming documents
and also the witness accounts
what we're looking at is a significant
number of people today china is world's
biggest jailer
and and as stated by congress and the
u.s government executive branch the
world has not seen anything like it
since the holocaust in china's northwest
region of xinjiang something is
happening the uyghurs and ethnic muslim
minority have been detained in mass and
placed in what china calls vocational
schools but what experts say are
internment camps adrian zen is an expert
on china's treatment of the uyghurs says
the campaign against them is an effort
to stamp out their culture religion and
identity china's treatment of the
uighurs
has been
appraised to be a genocide by
the united states government involving
mass internments
mass sterilization
um separating parents from children
in
colonial style boarding schools nuri
turkell who was born in a re-education
camp in china is now a lawyer and human
rights advocate in the united states
chinese communist party has been using
different
excuse different type of policies
targeting uyghur's ethno-national
identity way of life religion
culture
for a long time
i could say as long as i have
been breathing from the chinese
authorities rounded up a significant
number of people in one village one
county
they rounded up around 17 000 people
just like that they have shattered the
lives of 17 000 people this is just one
incident this is why when the pentagon
said three million we should not be
surprised the number could be even
higher persons who do not follow or bait
a chinese regime who hold different
opinions uh who are just not submitting
to beijing's rule um they're using these
sort of very generic charges
in the data we see that uh the actual
charges are like um a red quran or
prayed a normal prayer
or grew a beard
and so on or had one one extra child
over the birth
the birth policy now new evidence of
these alleged atrocities has surfaced
zen says he obtained thousands of secret
files from two local police networks in
xinjiang
including thousands of images of what
appeared to be uyghurs in some form of
detention and startling photos from
inside a detention camp
usa today and other media outlets were
able to verify some elements of the data
leak which zen says he obtained from a
hacker who was asked to remain anonymous
because of safety concerns
it is not clear from the photos whether
these are security drills or real-life
crackdowns inside the facility
zen says there are probably drills used
at least in part to intimidate the
detainees one of the images is of a
tiger chair
the tiger chair is an infamous
restraining device well known to
camp survivors the restraining devices
where people are locked into
one particular position for hours even
days
where they are starved not given food or
water or where they are beaten
and tortured
they can't move
according to zens the chinese government
has been expanding these facilities and
officials know that they are overcrowded
it is so full it's it's a desperate
situation and xinjiang desperately needs
more police more prison guards more
money
to keep those camps running and to
detain more people
the future for the vegas looks very
bleak because even though a number of
these camps have been decommissioned
people have been released
what have they been released into into a
police state if any country
around the world locks up more than a
million uh what we're talking about
based on pentagon estimate three million
muslims taken into the concentration
camps and i don't think that the
international community this would be
this island
because of its costly nature because of
potential retaliation against china in
diplomatic economic and political fronts
it's a very brutal and ruthless campaign
i feel
aged i feel
exhausted
i get very little sleep worrying about
those individuals languishing in a
modern day industrial scale
concentration camps and also what
disturbs me the most is that to the
extent american investors american
consumers are funding this genocide
we have not seen a tangible action
either in the societal level or the
governmental level
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