ACTIVIST COMPARES CHINA’S INDOCTRINATION OF UYGHUR MUSLIMS TO “HOLOCAUST”

Tue 24 November 2020:

Montreal (Canada): Uyghurs in China are indoctrinated 24 hours a day in communist ideology and Chinese culture, and the next generation will lose the Uyghur language, said Abduweli Ayup, a Uyghur activist, poet and linguist, in an interview with The Post Millennial.

Calling the Chinese policy towards Uyghurs equivalent to the “Holocaust”, Ayup stated that there were no Uyghur kindergartens in Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang, where thousands of Uyghur Muslims have been detained in re-education camps.

While speaking on China’s indoctrination process, he said that they would force people to sing Chinese patriotic songs to praise the Communist Party, the People’s Liberation Army, Mao Zedong and other leaders. It was not patriotism, but rather praising the Chinese culture.

The indoctrination part also taught that Han Chinese are the teachers, elder brothers and the Uyghurs were the students, younger brothers.

Uyghurs are forcefully made to write praise for the Communist Party and learn that the country did not have any cars, electricity, railways and other basic facilities before the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

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Speaking out against the harsh treatment of Uyghurs in China, Ayup told The Post Millennial: “Jewish people under Nazi detention were still often able to communicate in their language (Yiddish), because the Nazis did not have technology which allowed them to hear them speak amongst each other all day, every day. They did not have cameras spying on the Jews at all time. Younger Jews were also mixed in detention with adults. For Uyghurs, adults are in concentration camps while kids are in boarding schools, so there is no opportunity to keep and spread information between generations…Uyghur adults are separated from the children and are unable to do so.”

Citing a German news broadcast, he said that nearly 9,00,000 Uyghur kids are separated from their families, which means that China is suppressing their roots and their culture, and the birth rate among Uyghurs has plummeted in the last three years.

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Speaking on the importance of the Uyghur language, he stated it helped in connecting the people from Hotan and Kashgar, and without the language, there would be no education system to continue the culture, and without education, the Uyghur language will become a family language before disappearing entirely.

Ayup mentioned that Kashgar, the cultural capital of the Uyghurs, was the most targeted city, as out of 4,577 documented victim stories, looking at missing family members and people who have been arrested or sentenced, 34 per cent were from Kashgar.

He also claimed that children were being forced to speak Mandarin, and since most of them did not speak the Chinese language, the kids do not even smile or speak much because they have to speak in a language which was not their own, which led him to open a Uyghur kindergarten of his own.

“They have a book of Chinese poetry from the Tang dynasty. It is a very famous book. Even in China, most people cannot understand it because it is written in a more ancient Chinese dialect. Uyghur kids, however, are forced to memorise these texts from thousands of years ago,” Ayup told The Post Millennial.