Generational Dynamics World View

[John J. Xenakis]

** 05-Jul-2019 World View: China abducting and 'reeducating' Uighur children in East Turkistan (Xinjiang)


Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials in China's East Turkistan
(Xinjiang) province are forcefully taking Muslim Uighur and Kazakh
children from their parents and locking them up in "centralized care"
centers. In the "centralized care" centers, they're completely and
permanently cut off from their parents, and their parents' language
and culture. They're forced to speak only Chinese, and to spend many
hours per day reciting phrases worshipping the Chinese Communist Party
and Xi Jinping.

Starting in 2017, the CCP has arrested over a million Uighurs and
Kazakhs in East Turkistan, and locked them up in concentration camps,
as we've reported many times, where they're beaten, tortured, and
forced to recite phrases for many hours per day, praising the CCP. A
person could be locked up any kind of "crime," such as shaving one's
beard, since that could be a sign of a budding terrorist.

But it was never clear what was happening to the children. These new
reports reveal that. During the last three years there's been a
rapid, large-scale campaign to build boarding schools, abduct children
from their parents, and lock them up permanently in the boarding
schools for "centralized care."

The BBC researched this by collecting publicly available documents,
and by interviewing dozens of people in Turkey who have lost their
children during supposedly short visits to Xinjiang. The Uighurs and
Kazakhs are ethnically Turkic people, and they have relatives in East
Turkistan, the children are abducted during family visits. One person
on the BBC World Service said that he was watching a video released by
the CCP to show the world how happy the children are in CCP
orphanages, and he saw his own son for the first time in three years,
and was shocked to hear him speak Chinese.

The BBC also commissioned work by Adrian Zenz, a German researcher.
Zenz did extensive research, resulting in a lengthy report published
last week in the Journal of Political Risk. He analyzed all available
evidence, consisting of government policy and implementation
directives, different kinds of official reports and related state or
private media articles, educational statistics, public construction
and procurement bids, village-based work team reports, and official
propaganda pieces that extol the benefits of the so-called "vocational
training."

Zenz discovered that as the number of Uighur adults who were locked up
in concentration camps grew into the millions, their children who no
longer had any parents, were becoming a major societal problem.

According to Zenz's report:

Quote: "Government documents provide clear evidence that
there are large numbers of children with one or both parents in
some form of internment. These documents specifically refer to
“couples where both partners are detained in re-education," or
“couples where both partners are in vocational training center."
They also testify to the fact that this has developed into a
concrete and urgent societal issue. From early 2018, the state
began to issue urgent directives on how to deal with the virtually
orphaned children of single or “double-detained” parents, be it
through special care institutions or the regular education
system. Local governments began to require schools to provide
one-on-one “psychological counseling” and to proactively scan the
state of mind of students with parents in detention in order to
preempt trouble. Schools must now be prepared to mobilize entire
teams of teachers, staff and other students to deal with such
students when they are in distress, as well as taking measures for
making up for their loss of family ties. Other evidence shows that
schools have developed “emergency response plans” that include
dealing with students with detained parents in a timely and
effective manner in order to prevent violent
incidents."

The report concludes:

Quote: "It is only with what I refer to as the weaponization
of education and social care systems that the region’s
hair-raising political re-education and transformation drive is
achieving its terrifying degree of seamless
comprehensiveness. Increasing degrees of intergenerational
separation are very likely a deliberate strategy and crucial
element in the state’s systematic campaign of social
re-engineering and cultural genocide in Xinjiang.'"

Reading this report, I was reminded of the song from the Broadway play
Oliver!, sung by Mr. Bumble after the orphaned boy Oliver held out his
dish and said, "Please sir, I want some more."

Quote: "Oliver, Oliver
Never before has a boy wanted more
Oliver, Oliver
Won't ask for more when he knows what's in store
There's a dark, thin winding stairway without any banister
Which we'll throw him down
And feed him the cockroaches served in a canister

Oliver, Oliver
What will he do when he's turned black and blue
He will rue the day somebody named him Ol-i-ver ...

Oliver, Oliver
What heavens pray will the govenors say
They will lay the blame on the one who named him
Ol-i-ver"

The Broadway play is based on the 1840s serial novel, Oliver Twist, by
Charles Dickens. The 1840s was a generational Awakening era in
England, and Dickens was a social warrior whose novels had the purpose
of showing the seamy underground of London society, including the
horrific treatment of orphans in parish orphanages.

It's worth looking again at the last four lines of the song lyrics
quoted above. It suddenly dawns on Mr. Bumble that there are
investigations of orphanages going on in London at the time, and if
anything bad happens to Oliver, then the person who will be blamed
will be the person who named him Oliver -- Mr. Bumble himself.

I can't resist taking this side trip one step further. When the
investigation finally does occur, Mr. Bumble is accused of having
destroyed evidence that might have been used to determine Oliver's
real parents. The investigator speaks to Mr. and Mrs. Bumble:

Quote: "'Nothing,' replied Mr. Brownlow, 'except that it
remains for us to take care that neither of you is employed in a
situation of trust again. You may leave the room.'

'I hope,' said Mr. Bumble, looking about him with great
ruefulness, as Mr. Grimwig disappeared with the two old women: 'I
hope that this unfortunate little circumstance will not deprive me
of my porochial office?'

'Indeed it will,' replied Mr. Brownlow. 'You may make up your mind
to that, and think yourself well off besides.'

'It was all Mrs. Bumble. She would do it,' urged Mr. Bumble; first
looking round to ascertain that his partner had left the room.

'That is no excuse,' replied Mr. Brownlow. 'You were present on
the occasion of the destruction of these trinkets, and indeed are
the more guilty of the two, in the eye of the law; for the law
supposes that your wife acts under your direction.'

'If the law supposes that,' said Mr. Bumble, squeezing his hat
emphatically in both hands, 'the law is a ass -- a idiot. If
that's the eye of the law, the law is a bachelor; and the worst I
wish the law is, that his eye may be opened by experience -- by
experience.'"

So believe it or not, Dear Reader, I actually had a valid purpose in
drifting off into the story of Mr. and Mrs. Bumble, because they were
in exactly the situation that the Xinjiang CCP officials are in today.
As Zenz's research indicates, with millions of Uighurs in
concentration camps, there must be hundreds of thousands of children
who no longer have parents, and these are a major social problem.
China's government is apparently becoming nervous that the outside
world will learn about the concentration camps and reeducation
centers, and is taking steps to prevent that from happening.

The BBC reporter John Sudworth has been reporting on the concentration
camps for three years, and is now reporting on the abducted children,
possibly hoping to become the Charles Dickens of today, though as a
journalist rather than as a novelist.

However, there were no English security forces blocking Charles
Dickens's research the way that there are Chinese security forces
blocking Sudworth's attempts to visit the concentration camps.

In 2017, the CCP denied the existence of the concentration camps,
although they were clearly visible in satellite photos. Finally,
based on the photos and the stories of people whose families had been
abducted, the CCP said that they existed, but they were benigh
educational institutions.

In January, the CCP invited diplomats from 12 countries to visit one
of the concentration camps, Moyu County Vocational Skills Education
and Training Center, where “students are studying the national
language, national musical instruments, calligraphy and painting,
legal knowledge and various employment skills in the classroom. The
envoys asked the students about their study and life in detail, and
watched the performances of the students," according to Chinese media.

A comparable event occurred in 1943, when Hitler's Nazis decided to
let the Danish Red Cross and the Swedish Red Cross visit the
Theresienstadt concentration camp. The camp had been a filthy,
crowded smelly place where Jews were packed like sardines in small
cells. The visitors would be permitted to see only certain portions
of the camp. Prior to the visit, all buildings and grounds along the
travel route were enhanced by green turf, flowers, and benches. A
playground, sports fields, and even a monument were added. Thousands
of Jews were deported to other camps, to reduce crowding. Prominent
and Dutch Jews had their cells enlarged, as well as had furniture,
drapes, and flower boxes added. A sign, "Boys School" was erected
over one building, even though nobody ever had attended that school.
During the visit, well-rehearsed actions took place that were created
specially for the visit. Bakers baking bread, a load of fresh
vegetables being delivered, and workers singing were all queued by
messengers who ran ahead of the entourage.

So we have three different events, spanning 160 years of time:

• The horrific 1840s orphanages, revealed by Charles Dickens
  
  
• The horrific Nazi concentration camps, with a model Theresienstadt
  concentration camp was set up to fool international officials.
  
  
• The horrific Xinjiang concentration camps and boarding schools,
  where a model Moyu County Vocational Skills Education and Training
  Center was set up to fool international diplomats.

Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.

One more little anecdote:

I heard someone on Fox news the other day whining because the New York
Times had never written anything about the Nazi Holocaust at the time
that it was occurring, even though it was known through the
testimonies of escaped Jews. All my life, I've heard officials say,
"Never again!" referring to the Holocaust that targeted Jews.

So I remain continually astonished that there are three Holocausts
going on today in three different countries, all targeting Sunni
Muslims -- China's genocide and ethnic cleansing of Uighurs and
Kazakhs, Myanmar's (Burma's) genocide and ethnic cleansing of
Rohingyas, and Syria's (Bashar al-Assad's) genocide and ethnic
cleansing of his Arab Sunni enemies.

Just as almost no one uttered a peep or cared about the ongoing Nazi
Holocaust, today almost no one is uttering a peep or cares about three
Holocausts currently in progress in three different countries.

Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.


---- Sources:

-- China Muslims: Xinjiang schools used to separate children from
families
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-48825090
(BBC/Sudworth, 4-Jul-2019)


-- Break Their Roots: Evidence for China’s Parent-Child Separation
Campaign in Xinjiang
http://www.jpolrisk.com/break-their-root...iang#_ftn1
(Journal Of Political Risk, Adrian Zenz, 4-Jul-2019)

-- Xinjiang / Uighurs / China accused of rapid campaign to take Muslim
children from their families
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/j...of-uighurs
(Guardian, London, 5-Jul-2019)

-- Children of detained Uyghurs held in mass boarding schools in
Xinjiang, research claims
https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/05/asia/xinj...index.html
(CNN, 5-Jul-2019)

-- Nipping Dissent In The Bud: After ‘Re-Education’ Camps For Adults,
Now Children Under Communist Government Gaze
https://swarajyamag.com/insta/nipping-di...nment-gaze
(Swarajya, India, 5-Jul-2019)

-- Searching for truth in China's Uighur 're-education' camps
https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-china-blog-48700786
(BBC, 21-Jun-2019)


-- Commentary: Why won’t U.S. politicians talk about Chinese
concentration camps?
https://www.chicagotribune.com/opinion/c...story.html
(Chicago Tribune, 25-Jun-2019)


-- China’s Algorithms of Repression - Reverse Engineering a Xinjiang
Police Mass Surveillance App
https://www.hrw.org/node/329384
(Human Rights Watch, 1-May-2019)

-- Hitler / Holocaust / Terezin (Theresienstadt): The "Model" Ghetto
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/the...quo-ghetto
(JewishVirtualLibrary)

-- China Takes Diplomats to Tour Xinjiang ‘Re-Education Camps’
::xwla-02/11/2019
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/...tion-camps
(Bloomberg, 8-Jan-2019)