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Uighurs: "Chinese Gulag"

2020-07-28T18:58:14.123Z


The Figaro editorial, by Philippe Gélie.In 2020, a people of ten million souls is martyred with almost impunity by the second world power. In Xinjiang, the immense confines of the northwest of the empire, the Chinese authorities are practicing an iniquitous policy of cultural and demographic erasure against the Uighurs and other Turkish-speaking Muslim minorities. Arbitrary arrests, mass imprisonment in labor camps, elimination of intel...


In 2020, a people of ten million souls is martyred with almost impunity by the second world power. In Xinjiang, the immense confines of the northwest of the empire, the Chinese authorities are practicing an iniquitous policy of cultural and demographic erasure against the Uighurs and other Turkish-speaking Muslim minorities. Arbitrary arrests, mass imprisonment in labor camps, elimination of intellectuals, forced sterilization of women: the methods of the Communist Party tick several boxes of the United Nations convention of 1948 supposed to prevent and repress acts of "genocide".

Beijing cries out slander, “fake news”, even as the latest revelations on its policy of containment of the birth rate are based on official demographic data, erased since. After having long denied the existence of re-education camps worthy of Laogai, the Chinese gulag created by Mao, the CCP is trying to pass them off as "vocational training centers".

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Source: lefigaro

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