Sat 24 August 2019:
In an attempt to raise awareness about their humanitarian situation, families of the Uyghurs detained by China’s authorities in reconcentration camps have been using the video app, TikTok, to bring attention to their plight.
Users of the video app have been sharing photos and videos of their missing family members who are believed to be put in camps alongside more than one million others are detained. Chinese authorities described the camps as “re-educational” while in fact, it aims at ethnically cleanse one of the religious minorities in the country.
https://www.facebook.com/tahir.Imin.Uighurian/posts/10213649159519424
This comes in a time when China’s government still insist that the detention camps are training facilities that teach inmates lessons and cultural activities.
However, many of those who were able to flee leave the detention centers and leave the country revealed the treatment they were receiving inside. In the wide-scale detention centers, detainees are being forced to attend Chinese language classes, repeat slogans praising the Chinese leader Xi Jinping and the communist party, in addition to forcing them to eat pork and drink alcohol, which is forbidden in Islam.
In the meantime, Muslim-majority countries; including Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Qatar have affirmed their position in support of China in what they claimed as “taking a series of counter-terrorism measures to combat terrorism”.
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