China's Vanishing Muslims
From VICE News comes China's Vanishing Muslims, a hard-hitting probe into a hidden system of injustice and suffering sanctioned by the Chinese government.
The subjects of this abuse are the Uyghurs, a minority population of Chinese Muslims who have lived in the region of Xinjiang, China for centuries. They are enduring a systematic removal from society. Massive detainment facilities have been constructed to house over one million of the Uyghur people. Once incarcerated, they're placed under a regimen of strict indoctrination and conditioned to adhere to more "traditional" Han Chinese customs and beliefs.
The Chinese call these facilities vocational centers, but the United Nations has rightfully characterized them as concentration camps. Yet the Chinese have kept their system heavily guarded from prying eyes. Journalists are forbidden from leaking information.
This poses a unique challenge to the filmmakers. Even though they are posing as tourists instead of journalists, they can sense an ominous tension from the moment of their arrival in this ethnically charged region. The city is strewn with armed police, a constant parade of security checkpoints and surveillance cameras, and expressions of suspicion toward outsiders. Even in the most populated tourism spots, few people are willing to acknowledge the filmmakers, much less provide them with responses to their sensitive lines of questioning. Some claim ignorance to the mass persecution of the Uyghur people while others will only speak in hushed tones out of the view of their cameras.
They find better luck outside of China when they meet with a group of former detainees who managed to escape the confines of the camps. They testify to the brutality of their captors. They are detained under the cover of darkness in the dead of night. If a female detainee is pregnant, they are forced to undergo an abortion. Others are forced to undergo torture and falsely confess to acts of terrorism. "They don't care if people die," one former detainee explains. "Their main purpose is creating communist robots."
China's Vanishing Muslims is an exceptional work of journalism that shines a spotlight on atrocities that have been kept obscured from public view for far too long.
ceci the difference is Australians have admitted to the horrible things we've done in the past and are repentant and while not perfect aboriginals and torres strait islands (or native Australian) have been accepted and and legally recognised as equal members of Australia and don't have a government that actively seeks out and attempts to destroy them admiteddly we did things almost as bad as the chinenese did in the past in the lost generation and more but we admit to our wrongdoings china has never apologized about sh*t and still does this to this day they do this not only to minorities but any Chinese citizen who doesn't agree with them, freedom of speech doesn't exist in their country and I think it says something when a country lacks a basic human right but hey I could be wrong misunderstanding all of this and I'm open to a conversation
The PM of Canada is beholding to China. He has stated " He admires their basic dictatorship." He sends 100s of $ millions of Canadian taxpayer dollars to China's Infrastructure Bank while Canadian indigenous communities don't even have fresh drinking water and he tells Canada's wounded veterans " You are asking for more than we can give."
Don't expect Canada to make the slightest attempt to help these innocent, persecuted people until PM Justin Trudeau is gone. All Canadians are shamed by him and his governments actions.
I have read all you comments and you all have missed the message behind the video and the danger they encounter while doing it. Maybe you should re-view it with the message in mind. I'm sadden and sick to my stomach at the ethnic cleansing that is happening, they are playing God.
Great documentary. It’s a shame people criticize it. Let’s forget about opinions of surveillance and the number of police etc. I think what everyone should agree is that its not ok to put away hundreds of thousands of parents and separate them from their children for “re-education”. I think its hard to find anyone who really thinks such actions are acceptable. If this documentary doesn’t suffice as evidence, there are plenty of others. The BBC and that tried to go to these schools and do thinks “officially” as Yuri suggested, but the police basically shut them down, and they were only allowed to interview individuals nominated by the local government! Clearly that is not an acceptable way to conduct a documentary and is very good evidence that they are trying to hide the reality.
diversity..a lovely word in a lovely world...butttttt in reality it will never work..i am all for go to any country respect and adhere to rules and there way of life but im not for ANY religion or countryman to settle in a country and start dictating i dont like this i want that you insult me by doing that..its not rules its a simple respect of that country and its history.
Terrorists are terrorists only when the US says so. Such hypocrisy. At least China is doing something positive while the US all of a sudden pretends to care for Muslims.
This documentation is full of prejudice. You don't need to care about the policeman in the street if you are not the bad guy or terrorist they are searching for. Those cameras will be helpful if normal social security problems happened, if your wallet was stolen, you will be lucky if it happens to happened in a cctv area. And of course someone told you some "answer",but they are not the one or their family who killed by terrorist, please do a official and equitable survey in advance if you want to prove something. Please be responsible for this world.
Love it. WELL DONE CHINA... We got a few here in Australia that are unwanted by many. Especially when our government allows jihad mongrels back into the country from syria. This is inviting terrorism here for my grandchildren. Also well done that man in NZ .. 51 was a good total - to start with.
This is good but I don't other countries should be nosing around in others affairs America itself tries to whitewash people with religion and politics also look how they to destroy us Native indigenous people of this land wow you people has some nerve