Uyghur Muslims

Uyghur Muslims, the genocide America isn’t talking about

Answering quetions of 2020’s recent genocide

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As the international media turns its back on Uyghur Muslims but focuses more on COVID-19 and politics. This is the reality of life as a Uyghur Muslim in 2020. The Chinese concentration camps have been the largest incarceration of a religious minority group since the Holocaust. China now meets the United Nations definition of genocide, mass sterilization, forced abortions and mandatory birth control.

What is a genocide?

Students learn about genocides in history classes. The United Nations definition of a genocide is the deliberate killing of a large group pf people. Especially, those of an ethnic group or nation. Some examples, the Holocaust because they were Jews. The Rwandan genocide against the Tutsis because of their economic statutes and how dark they were. Who are Uyghur Muslims?

The Uighurs are a mostly Muslim Turkic ethnicity who regard themselves as culturally and ethnically close to Central Asian nations. The majority live in Xinjiang China, where about 11 million of them reside in. Uighur communities are also found in Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Kazakhstan, and several thousand live in Australia. They have their own language, also called Uighur. “This is my first-time hearing about Uyghur Muslims, but this isn’t the first time about hearing oppression in China,” Roosevelt junior Ikra Farah said. Though China is accused of forcing those e reality of life as a Uyghur Muslim in 2020 taken to camps in Xinxiang to learn Mandarin. Xinjiang has been under the control of China since it was annexed in 1949.

Many Uyghurs still identify their home- stances. Lastly, and most importantly land by its previous name East Turkestan. conduct impartial investigations into “I’ve heard of the Uyghur Muslims for a all allegations of racial, ethnic and few years now,” East high school’s history ethno-religious profiling. “The United teacher Randi Fitzgerald said. Nations should hold China account-

Why are the Uyghurs targeted? able for their actions, they should fight

China claims that Uyghurs hold ex- for the release of Uyghur Muslims. If tremist views that are a threat to security. China refuses, they should pause all The point of attacks of 2013 on China’s trades with China” Roosevelt junior Tiananmen Square and the knife attack in Raildy Duot said. Kunming in 2014. which Uygur militants What is China accused off? claimed responsibility for. In 2017 the International Human rights group Xinyang government passed a law prohib- and Human Right Watch have submititing men from growing long beards and ted reports to the United Nations docwomen from wearing veils and dozens of umenting claims of mass imprisonment. mosques also have been demolished. The treatment of Uyghur Muslims

What is happening in the camps? makes me feel disgusted, and the lacy

More than 85 identified camps within of empathy for the lives of these human Xinyang have been reported. Members beings disgusts me even further,” Duot of the Muslim minority say they were said. detained, interrogated and beaten because The World Uyghur Congress said of their religion. “It breaks my heart to in its reports that detainees are held see and listen to victim stories, the lack of without charge and are forced to shout basic human rights the Muslims are dying, Communist Party slogans. It said they and America is turning a blind eye,” Farah are poorly fed, and reports of torture said. Many say it was clear that the camps are widespread. were hate instead of being ‘re-educated.’ “China is very racist towards minorities, so it doesn’t surprise me the extents they went to ‘re-educate’ Muslims, its sick,” Farah said. “Uyghur Muslims life matter!”

What are the United Nations doing?

On August 30, 2018 the UN body released an observation critiquing what extreme things China is doing. The body called on China to end the practice of detention without trial and conviction, immediately release those individuals currently detained under those circum- East Scroll /17