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and the military vehicles interest samsung canyons were so crow turner bends, wants trouble the ones back on the bus. smartphones and cameras must be turned off. the local authorities encourage must tourism, but exec complete control over these chinese visitors, that memories and potential posts. that's because in recent years, other images, as in general, they matched they have revealed a very different reality. internment camps in prison, the convoys. so 5 is from these kinds of reports of torture, right? and forced sterilization, the government's target, the regions inhabitants. we just launched the muslim ethnic group unless it was something else and that's the worst kind of torture. those seem changed and tied to the badge with the all hunched up. i suffered thoughts in human treatment. so for 7

months, even animals are subject to that. the disappearances arrest summary judgement. millions of people fear for their lives and the lives of the families. political need is no longer shy away from coating these abuses, genocide, a 1000000 readers, as you pointed out, muslims are in concentration camps such as they are right now. they're being abused or, and concentration can, why have chinese leaders decided to prosecute this regions population? they're trying to wipe out workers identity, language, culture, history, religion. the chinese government has made themselves pretty clear through their own actions. their ultimate goal is to wipe out an entire night, listening to visual, understand the tragedy taking place in the subject. we've proved into the action plan road now by the chinese communist policy designs to bypass this aspect

minority city success. what's happening regardless of whether it's a crime against humanity or genocide. so that is so great that the international community has no right to stay silent, because silence is always the torture is a couple of sick to sure. the, the week is home, since china is west and most region, a bit over 2500 kilometer is separate beijing, the political heart of the people's republic of china. g. the comforts of saint john, which is the biggest region in china, in 3 times the size of frost. jung forms,

a border between china and tight countries, including 2 large muslim countries, pakistan and afghanistan, rich and natural resources. this region is fine to to china's economic and industrial product sparsely populated. ready ready in johnny's home to several ethnic minorities, cossacks who use okay, i guess most contacts specs not to be 11000000 week is considered to be the regions. intention is people based tucking, speaking people are central to have for centuries, and i've never felt themselves to be chinese. the week wars have much more in common with the peoples of central asia than they do with the han chinese people culturally, historically, linguistically. they share a lot of commonalities with people of a former soviet central asia that was backs the cossacks and so on. in fact,

many of those people also inhabit the week or region of china, demographically, the chinese nation is divided into 56 ethnic groups. but the resulting mosaic is on the buttons. in fact, one could say that china was cutting to the east and thought its way most time chinese, less concentrated in nature of incentives. they might cup 92 percent of china's total population to the west to know off a vast regions but a home to many ethnic groups. among them, tibetans long goals. we get another tote kicks because 60 percent of china's natural resources located in these territories. inhabiting plastic minorities are now almost as many i'm chinese in some john has their own week is this is the result of migration organized by the communist party since 1949, which has spit up significantly since president shooting pain came to power. the

weakest condemn i'm coming is ation of that territory. and they've been fighting for decades to present their identity, religion and culture anyway. and that's why the me go to chinese constitution defines china as a multi ethnic country, some of that. but now she didn't ping wants to create a mano ethnic chinese nation dominated by han chinese and whose mission it would be to absorb all other ethnicities. here they shall watch and have the means to better assimilate the week. is the chinese communist party decided to disregard its own constitution and to attack the bedrock of weak a culture and identity is not the incident john going to the most having a bit, wearing a job or keeping a corona can lead to arrest and sometimes prison in china,

people, my only worship the chinese communist party, particularly in saint john west, social stability is vital to the government. the region is essential to the country's growth. it's land contains one 3rd of china's coal, oil and gas reserves. st. john also produces 20 percent of the world's cold, and that's not all in 2013, the chinese president and owner of this colossal project belts and road initiative . this includes a new 10000 kilometer irrelevant highway network, connecting china to your through central asia. in china, the main cussing point for these new trade rates is in john joseph said softly,

the chinese leaders decided that in order to best exploit the regions resources they needed to secure. even if that meant sacrificing the people. had you know, you called to you that you said that you that you would be among kinds of issues. yeah. how's it was among cause i used to be punch region pain is best thing on the belt and road and the city of the gate to which he's been changed all time in the city. you see tons deal but 1st stretch and the built in road initiative will fail and that project is vital to see jen paying that. so he's trying to ensure that since yang is stable and secure to guarantee the access of the building road initiative. i'm oh, that's why she's in pain, is using so many resources to have total control as in jane and i. so how do i siege and ping? the issue isn't just these policies in this for design, the countries whole economy and even the survival of the country itself, or it's thank you. sense of the issue. the,

of course, the chinese need is, isn't check by the week is resisted. well, i see is an occupation by the over the years that have been born and pleasures between the 2 ethnic groups sided to radicalize the struggle talking on chinese and other regions. on october 28th 2013. there was a suicide attack in the chinese capital. this gentleman square a call within john plates deliberately drove into the crowd, killing 2 people, including $44.00 exploding. a few months later on march, the 1st 2014 committee station in human province was attacked. 6 men to women, described by official media are as weak a terrorist step, 31 people to test the members of the national people's congress observed a minute, saw events in omar to contain victims. a shooting pain declared war on the

3, scourges, poisoning china, separatism, extremism and terrorism. the weakest must become loyal to the chinese communist party or else disappear. since 2014, the communist regime has imposed absolute secrecy regarding their actions against the weakest. st. john became an information by call within the week of the tspra, particularly in the us room. this began to circulate china legend to your computer . we education captain said jack in which thousands of week is repeating the radio from washington. in march 2017 week of june and his tech solved in washington

managed to shed some light on them out to the short ocean lifts and journey to us almost 30 years ago. despite the distance, he remains one of the best informed people about the face to face people in washington, a host week of content on radio for ya, a pro democratic station funded by the us congress for asian people suppressed by all sorts henry and regimes. man, uh, both strong. oh yep. the engine it should just say against march 2017. come all week or is living abroad, tells me that some of their family members have been arrested books and. and they said that in some places i need to the residence of the entire neighborhood, even the entire municipalities. i'd be interested to have looked at, in fact, almost no one was left free until the 2 beds. i'm not sure i don't believe so. the

guy who listed all the other ones are to have this could be a so some of the apartments i'm a phone calls to the cities of christ car. hold on. assume that there's an emotional attachment to the front clip cuz got what done us all over the phone. some in st. john week is who receiving some national phone calls are amazingly arrested, sent to contact them. sure disguised his voice, and the origin of his calls. minimum was told that i asked my questions methodically for them and asked each of them who would be interested in his family or neighborhood. everyone knew at least one or 2 neighbors who disappeared, but it's, so i concluded that the most of the most arrest of all of them. i then called one in eunice, apologies, city hall. and they told me they had orders to arrest 20 percent of the populations as opposed to us. the orders had been given from us the rest, but of course, attended. rather one day he managed to talk to an efficient and cellphones,

in general. though how many are in professional training at the prefecture, would you say, i'd say about a 120000 people to for the very 1st time a chinese official, a confirmed mass incarceration is in john short social was revelations was seen by chinese authorities in retaliation they targeted his family members feelings in john. one of his brothers disappeared at another. as in 5 years, a forced labor was on a tight. it's a to give me the positive for the never stopped. there's direct over the sun, how much they've implied that all the harm they're doing to my family would stop and then if i stopped investigating talk i do. they don't. i think our country's think i'm not off. my family are in 20 on top, out there with them in the item. my family won't be out of trouble until our nation is free. target is not look not that they don't want to launch out that most of the

short socials was just the start of a series of timing revelations for the chinese government. the face safety meeting with jim and research andrea and was held in a discreet location in the us midwest. the discovery is by the sound cir, purchased the next path on social policies to maintain the pain of the chinese superpower. for months, ends on the signs of these mess in 10 minutes, in thousands of pages of official documents available on the internet. and the discovery must us the money to change. that example kind of the problem is that it's impossible to carry out research in some jang she needs for.

so my method is to look for data and statistics from the chinese government, from official budget, documented job listings. reports still can help locations, articles, and so forth. bible, what other patasha? a lot of upon what i do next is a bit like detective would work well, putting a puzzle together, an odd that a key fob i put on uh, pulls it up by the scattering official documents jeans, phone calls for attendance for the construction of what chinese authorities called professional training centers, but the required equipment cool, the research is attention to sufficient extent once you start most of the most important evidence showing that these are re education with hands 5 with those close to 10 designs which said on paper, we need a substitute facility for the re education $1.00 to $2.00 most mostly have a camera system with no blind spots. it must be surrounded by high walls with barbed wire and have watched countless people send back to him if we need

a special police station with um to our lease on the facility to put it side off season colonda as it is. if it was incredible to see all these details about security and surveillance, and for the government to describe them so directly, suzanne dusty like you want to. so often thought about it. after i'm losing the data, i found that 2017 adrian's and estimated to thousands of companies were being built mainly in brewer. they are using cellphones and john by his calculations, up to 1000000 people could be in time that this was immediately confirmed by another source in canada for students, a chinese defense managed to find the geographic code and that's a piece detention centers and locate them on satellite images like here in corsica, join alter secure, complex built in just a few months. the, you can clearly see

a surrounding wall. estimated to be 10 meters high. 7 much tell us there's in general, authorities built about 20 buildings that including 13 more than 5 stories high. this come to be able to hold up to 10000 to tell you these, the by the summer of 2018. thanks to the series of revelations. no one could be left on the way or if the terrible human rights violations in saint john, there was no doubt that the accounts exist in the united nations somewhat to time. and to last, china to account for the chinese delegation was expected of the u. n. z repeating headquarters to present measures china plan to put in place to fight racial discrimination. the

special report of the chinese representatives out right for an explanation of the repression of weakness ends in john in the name of combating religious extremism and maintaining its social stability. the state party has turn the weaker a ton los region into something that resembles a mass of internment camp. uh, that is uh, shrouded in secrecy. a sort of a no rights and so, and the members of the weaker minority along with others who are identified as muslims, are being treated as enemies of the state. they solely on their that's no religious identity. the suite, somebody about reads with n p g opposite to junction that one,

the unsure of on one sample processor can guarantee. and so the font dodgy comb, good. your e g. the on to eat friendly is where you find the by a sign come volt funds, you don't find finish utility and that means what's on your fargo. the chinese delegation thus deny the existence of re education comes with admitted to opening professional training centers. the time to fight extremism through education and walk, the chinese authorities opposed what they called unbearable meddling. and it's internal affairs and manipulation by the enemies of the people's republic. the it was just the beginning because with this is also make themselves the chinese communist party. one said only good things to say about cope in the city of chinese

women. of course, back as nicety married to a week kilburn, to join the ease in her room. she, she was a model loyal agent member of the party. that's why it is in general authorities coming theater to teach clauses. and one of the centers, of course, the obligation to remain completely silent about what was going on that caused a move. so in a give cause, i'm glad i said coping or your daughter is studying in the netherlands. they knew because we had to give them family updates every month to search. you must be especially careful. don't say anything about teaching there. not to your colleagues or your family. never forgets that until march the 1st 2017. a police officer picked her up and drove her to the top of a hill overlooking the city, the capt. blue managed to. when i

got out of the car, i was by an old blue gray 4 story building. there was a wall going all the way around, some with barbed wire and metal gate soto, can you get into the court yard? do you have to go to 3 security gates portal? as soon as i went in i was trying to talk to you. i did not put up. there were heavily armed soldiers in the courtyard. and that'd be that i immediately felt surprised. what was the them to become the and it can marsh advocate is as much as a police officer took me to what he said was the office for employees. there were 5 young weaker women there. one told me that they would call the students and i could follow them. then they shouted classes starting, and chinese just pushed out the clay to the doors open and the students started coming out. and the roof keep open. that's when you're washed over me. i started shaking. i was terrified. okay,

let's see what they had chains on their hands and feet. they came out like that. so that was the one i saw them. i wasn't shocked me. i couldn't come down anymore. so you have to get on the phone with them. i counted them there were 97 with that option and all were numbered orange bags and was just, it was forbidden to use their names, offices not curriculum. when i worked in, i automatically said us along the lake on the sheet, but everyone kept their hands as low as possible. there were whispers and the 7 women at the back started sleeping look like it. did you have that in the count at 1st we taught them chinese, but later on we were ordered to teach them red stones, for example, about how without the communist party there wouldn't be a new china. we have to fill their brains with these other non solutions. the insignificant really intended to teach these people if they'd let them leave

in the evening, there'd be no reason to chain their hands and feet and torture. the newest people did nothing wrong with their only so called crime that the because we were belongs to the term for a year. capital, i'm willing to continue the mission. we will forward to you just given us enough time for 2019 volunteer kind of permission to go to the netherlands to visit her daughter. she requested political to sign up distraught by what she had seen. gilbert, who was one of the 1st to bear witness to the weakest fate. the innocent jack, a few phone reports is out small to police surveillance and managed to sneak some footage. for to find enclosures for fault wire,

i'm watch towers surveillance cameras. these images corroborated wide rooms and set uncovered inefficient documents use us nice images, show the proliferation of companies throughout the region in 2020 australia and were such as identified 380 new ones. according to adrian's, and that might be $13.00 to $1400.00 of them. in total, the during construction dodson sidewalk has posted a few images from inside these buildings that the chinese co professional training centers. some of these videos, the skype, the notice of chinese census. they don't show classrooms. the growth of cells and torture chambers says

the could have the stuff to feed himself, but it doesn't seem fact. my heart starts racing up. it says i'm thinking in there means the punishment would be very severe. well, you know, of the trying to make, has confessed this thing, the suicide looking at all for that. what they use to truly barberic massively up the restrain you and hung you from. the wall is up at some bearable. they hit you with more than a rubber buttons and even use don't guns. what do i mean? isn't humans should laugh at us when you're tortured light. that's you scream, dot mom. save me. put it on the put the pull up. this is what i'm looking for. yeah, the torture last. it's 7 months and 10 days the before his arrest. like many, when he goes, i say lifting what neighboring cousins in spring 2017. he went as in john to attend the training show that he was arrested and then turned in a come,

you'll start to not know accused him of having separate test ideas is now a refugee in the netherlands. these were united with his family, but he remembers when he went through all too vividly. so i'll get them to show 10 more products. but i suppose from the minute 6 30 am, we stood facing the wall for the raising of the chinese flag and the closet. detainees were orange uniforms like the prisoners, and the one turned them away from the entry we were in chains. and as we were forced to sing read sounds, real sure, send you another, but some do the scene one or 2 scenes. they didn't give us any food at the but it was given a she doesn't less than you must. if i'm a bit of make sense, i refused to learn the national, i'm from are single read sounds of stuff as enough. always given for different punishments. that's a local agent. now don't you that typically does our shall go to

1st floor speeds beaten the buttons and then forced to face the wall for 24 hours to the other with nothing to eat or drink. so somebody shouldn't be the middle, but she kept it as a 2nd. the punishment was being restrained and the tiger turner in the water bottle and they are, the ones are tired from painting the bellows on the weekend when we found somebody food a washer you them to so so you make specially better later level. most of them a stringent as a 3rd as being heads and then locked in a cell. so that's 3 square meters. so on this as i do it without food or water, send me a draft in line. the company said that the the dungeons as a force punishment of your major stands naked except for your 100 pounds in the snow or cold for 24 hours. it didn't matter if you were shivering or freezing. and if it was somewhere else,

because you have to stay in the sun and make it up to fill up the customers with what it says the i was going to check the pressure colors. this isn't going to make you bundle in your ethnicity, your religious belief system to brainwash you the torture you psychologically little. he but some of the you and she really 18 or the play? the harder like the i'm yeah, this is salvation to diplomats and catholics. dom, he'd become a citizen of the torturing humiliations. he describes the definition of brainwashing a method that can be traced back to 19 fifties china. the

cost of the gentleman squared mastic are in 1999. a former executive decided to leave the policy and take refuge in the us, where he now teaches political science. cl mean, says chinese leaders methodically use an old communist technique and john civil and so when you rein washing is an expression of chinese origin, which means beating the brain and watching it. and i said i just, originally this was done by for both and starting with food deprivation wants to pay because they said that hunger could destroy a man's wheel. can't see when you go to the brain. washing has been practiced regularly by the chinese communist parties and what seems to change your power into that 100 homes with us. so you know way that's what makes the chinese people vehicle with and a baby. and if i'm in chrome g a c line. yeah. and go for the home hung, isn't the only weapon come, got to use to subjugate the population. the caught them make it more look at that

they brought a cleric and said he wasn't a mom, but we couldn't verify that. he advised us to stop believing in our religion that there was no god other than she's in pain and that only the communist party could save us probably a send them to some idea of what that was most right. however, johnny's will. thirty's disapproved too frequent trips to catholic stone and saw her face in islam a success if she was subjected to 11 months of re education. when she thought that the god shaved her head and made her aware uniform, she knew from the beginning the sheep go through now the toilet. even the out of the cars that i sent,

i believe the police officers came to get me. i was with another girl. i remember there was a man and clean clothes with them. cook got them, but you were a black suit supplied glasses and a surgical mask cause a neck must couple of them cause they can. eva took his glasses off, but i couldn't see a space under the mask. came on the palm, then a man in uniform came in. no thought very directly. he said in a couple of the machine was messed up to my. you said, take your clothes on the baby. i thought, why does he say that? are they going to hit me again? i asked my dad and crawled up in a ball. i'm to know, plus some of them within the crab and they are still on the drop me the more. and he ripped by close stars, cut up, kept the run around. if i didn't have the strength to pretend his job pushed,

pushed me, then do i have to come up today? broke me up with another guard came along escalade. well, 2 of them held me. i fainted and fell down by several ocean, which i don't know what those 3 did to me. i thanks to her cause that cost to us and i was released. but she remained severely affected before leaving the camp. she had to promise, she could never speak of what happened but the whole so brave citizens in china to disapprove of the torment the policy is

subject to link is to an autumn 2019 wednesday. and john was still cuts off by chinese censorship. an anonymous sauce sent to new york times find some information. it was a 400 pages of internal chinese communist party documents that contained many official investigations and directives, reports on to violence and control of the week of population statements by high ranking communists. and lastly, 96 pages of speeches made by president changing, paying himself in these one can read the official orders he gave during his visit us in gen 4 years earlier. these links in gen papers confirmed the implementation of a fall system of detention comes decided by the highest levels of the communist hierarchy . and these internal government documents with the chinese president

while addressing reasonable authorities, compared to religious extreme, is up to a virus to an evil truck. changing pain stated the fight against this scourge, which requires all combine for treatment. and the chinese communist policy, which has to use all the tools of dictatorship to have a comment coming from the mouth of the chinese president admins, extreme actions are authorized even touched, the local authorities to show absolutely no massey in chinese leaders mines. it's about treating people with evil, a radical stones approved by many intellectuals function bingley. a university professor and government advisor. and so what's the chromebooks are spindle? if we compare terrorism to a virus, we have to find out who's carrying the volume or telling it. we're not going to

kill them, but quarantine, let me questions. they must be given free treatment so they can recover quickly say, what if it's an ideological virus, it's harder to know who is infected and what does one do then on that you might get sent to a certain place for a while, where you will be given an ideological training alongside to job training, to the in the what the the, to track down those with this idea, logical virus, the policy put the population in saint john. i'm the surveillance in china. the policy is always and he is everywhere in every district neighborhood. factory and building. it's in same job, even more than else the dictatorship has deployed its most powerful tools. so quote small cameras, facial recognition, biometrics, digital spine. since the launch of the repression campaign in 2014 the

population of this chinese farm west that's becoming the most monitored in the well one of the things, the chinese state talks about in terms of particularly surveillance programming. but really is the same thing about the re education program. is they called preventative policing? the idea that this person is not yet an extremist. they're not yet a terrace, but we can see that they might become one. so we need to act that states surveillance and she and john is pervasive, but maybe it's easier to think about it in sort of a 3 dimensional everyday sense. imagine, for example, a q r code has been placed outside your front door so that authorities can stop by and

scan that code to see if it is registered to live there and then knock on the door and see if the right people are there. or maybe the wrong people are there and leave your house in the morning to take your children to school and to go to the shops. you have to pass through a check point until you have to swipe your id card to go through those. so that the authorities can know what trajectory you followed and all the while. remember if you're outside your video surveillance cameras tracking you, we know that the authorities will track people if they turn their phones off. so going off the grid is problematic to everyone is a suspect every with all the time under the pretext of fighting terrorism, the policy has criminalized all sorts of behavior. in some german local leaders drew up a list of 75 signs of radicalization. top of the list,

advocating the succession is in june, and the creation of an islamic state to be stuck is done. but of much more mundane behaviors as seen as warning signs, such as something me quitting, drinking or smoking. boy colton. cultural sporting events or closing you'll restaurant during ramadan. this least gives law enforcement lots of room for interpretation. and i think the parties of the government, some goal is to make clear to all week or is across and young. that there are red lines. and the penalty for crossing that used to be detained for months at a time, and now possibly prosecuted. and given her sentences it produces precisely one of the effects. i think that the authorities are hoping to achieve, which is scaring people into here,

totals mission the despite the awesomeness of payments in saint john, never mind the blind spot to which the communist party have no access families. private knives, the party at night. the because i'm chinese and we just don't necessarily get them all they would need to be forced to get to know each of the chinese leaders organized, estimate community we the once a month we confirmed these get to visit from an chinese person who stays with them . for a few days, video shed on social media. everyone looks very happy at

the, it's in reality, these fake chinese friend 0 so that to junk family members loyalty to the policy. it was very clear that it also was for surveillance purposes to see who was living at home. wasn't there? how religious were they? did the children speak training is rigor. you're all of this data gets recorded and can you imagine having officials from the ruling party in your country move into your house and instead of your dinner table and sleeping your bed with you on invited, particularly in a culture that is still reasonably conservative. so with a high tech surveillance sales, don't worry,

the party is there to make sure that they're keeping an eye on you, even in low tech ways to the since 2016, the communist party has sent more than 1000000, consisting john holmes holmes, with no remaining signs of weaker culture the this is the communist penalties. the project raised a week or identity to pets and replacing the today, showing there was the main trading volunteer of a 130 countries, including 10 in the economically inescapable china seems to enjoy something close to impunity. except for the sanction the attempts by a few major democratic countries, the international community is largely keeping its head down. meanwhile, the week is continued to face during a refresher in china,

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