Refuse to whitewash, voices about Xinjiang

The tragic and frightening experience of the Uighurs in Xinjiang. Although the Wadi regime has been trying its best to curb the flow of relevant information, and categorically deny and beautify its own actions, all kinds of atrocities are still hard evidence in the international community. In China's foreign affairs, concerns about the situation of the Uyghurs are often raised. Some overseas groups are also working hard to operate databases, recording the information of "disappeared" Uyghurs and the various atrocities committed by the Wadi regime against Uyghurs.

At the beginning of the year, I saw a book titled "Xinjiang: Seventy Years Dominated by the CCP" introduced on a Taiwan media website, and I already felt the need to start with this book. At first, I was worried that bookstores in Hong Kong would not dare to sell this book because the subject matter was too sensitive, so I deliberately ordered and delivered it from an online bookstore in Taiwan. In the bookstore, I saw this book.

"Xinjiang: Seventy Years Dominated by the CCP" was written by Jun Kumakura, a Japanese scholar who has studied ethnic policies in China and the Soviet Union for many years. . As mentioned in the introduction and epilogue, this book uses a relatively objective perspective to explain the various changes that Xinjiang’s governance and policies have faced since the founding of the People’s Republic of China. Through the above-mentioned analysis, we can see that the pressure of the Wadi regime on Xinjiang has been tighter and tighter from time to time, but it has lasted for many years, and it is also deeply affected by the domestic political situation and even the international political and economic situation, such as the June 4th massacre, the disintegration of the Soviet Union, The 9/11 terrorist attacks, etc., all have an impact on the Wadi regime's assessment of Xinjiang policies. After Winnie the Pooh came to the throne, because of his father's historical background and the appointment of someone from the United Front Work System to lead the Xinjiang Work Coordination Group, the outside world once expected that it would adopt a relatively gentle strategy to deal with Xinjiang, but later several cases The slashing and bombing incidents have prompted Winnie the Pooh to comprehensively strengthen its "anti-terrorism" policy, further pushing Xinjiang to a place where there is no redemption.

However, the author also pointed out in the book that the definition of "genocide" in the last century cannot fully describe what the Wadi regime has done in Xinjiang. For one thing, Winnie the Pooh did not order the destruction, obliteration and killing of Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities. Annihilation, the current policy is more like a (forced) assimilation. But I would think that maybe this is a clever method of the Lowlands regime, deliberately bypassing some methods that are easily criticized by the international community, so as to achieve what it needs, which is even more chilling than "genocide".

While ordering the book "Xinjiang: Seventy Years of CCP Domination" online, I found another book titled "A Place Without Return", about a Uyghur woman detained and trapped in a "re-education" The real experience in the camp. However, the online bookstore does not provide the service of ordering this book and shipping it to Hong Kong. I felt sorry for it for a while, but later found the trace of this book in another bookstore upstairs, even though there are still many books bought for many times. I hadn't started reading it yet, so I bought it without thinking.

"A Place to Go and Never Return" was thrilling to read, but the pace was fast, so I didn't spend a lot of time reading it, but when I encountered some heavy passages, I had to take a break to regain my composure. The author Mihrigul went abroad to study in her early years and got married because she did not want to be sent back to her country. On the way back home to visit relatives with a newborn baby, he was detained for no reason. He not only endured the pain of being separated from the newborn baby, but also experienced daily solitary confinement and meaningless repetition of wheel wars full of insults. Interrogation, repetitive labor and reciting, violent beatings in violation of "rules", etc. The situation in the concentration camps is not good, the food is uneven, the environment is cramped, and the detainees are not allowed to chat with each other and help each other. There are many people who cannot survive the permanent "logout" from this world. The classification of detainees into different "levels" is also a means of differentiation.

Mihrigul was released from concentration camps twice, but she faced residential surveillance, and even placed Han men in her home to "live" together without reason. Those Han men acted as "relatives" of Uyghurs according to Daan It is a more serious violation than the inhuman life in the concentration camp. Later, Mihrigul was convicted of an unknown crime. Before the execution, Mihrigul escaped from this "polar region" through twists and turns, and got the chance to speak at a hearing in the US Congress , exposing the various atrocities committed by the Wadi regime against the Uyghurs. But even in a (relatively) free place, the clutches of totalitarianism are still lingering, and the residence has been harassed by unknown people many times, and "Meng's mother has to move three times". Of the triplets born that day, one of them passed away due to improper care in a hospital in Xinjiang. The remaining two children also took a lot of time to achieve relatively normal growth under the environment of early stunting. However, the nightmare formed during the detention period had an irreversible impact on the child's psychological quality.

During the anti-extradition movement, "Xinjiang today, Hong Kong tomorrow" was a very vigilant slogan. In the days when the depressions were widely closed last year, many netizens also called it the beginning of "National Xinjiangization". Although we know that the experiences of protesters in Hong Kong in police stations, prisons, and courts are still far behind Uyghurs, but looking at the recent speeches made by senior officials in the so-called National Security Education Day, these methods are far from us. Still not far away. And in the situation where totalitarianism is constantly "whitewashing" itself, these true voices need to be remembered and spread widely.