In the April 12, 2021 issue of the New Yorkers, journalist Raffi Khatchadourian wrote one of the most compelling and troubling stories about the plight of the Muslim Uyghurs in China. The story, titled “Ghost Walls” tells the story of one Chinese woman who had moved to Canada, went back to China for her fathers funeral, and was detained in a reeducation camp for more than one year for no reason other than her ethnic and religious heritage.
For anyone interested in an honest and complete story about what the Chinese Communist Party, CCP, is doing to eliminate certain segments of there society, please read this story, and if you have to subsribe to read it, do so. I would encourage every American to get an education from this piece of work, see the link below.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/04/12/surviving-the-crackdown-in-xinjiang
A related story to Raffi’s piece is an Op-Ed by Washington Post journalist Josh Rogin, titled, Opinion: We can’t fight climate change using forced labor in China, which appeared online and in print on June 24. In additon to “re-educating” the Uyghurs and removing their culture and religion from any part of their communities and their minds, the CCP is using one million Uyghurs to manufacture goods for American corporations.
Rogin, the author of Chaos Under Heaven, writes, “Most Americans likely don’t know that approximately 40 percent of the world’s polysilicon, a key component of solar panels, is manufactured in China’s northwest Xinjiang region, where the United States has determined the Chinese government is perpetrating a genocide and crimes against humanity against Uyghur Muslims and other ethnic minorities….The Australian Strategic Policy Institute has identified 82 major corporations that are benefiting from Uyghur forced labor, including Apple, General Motors and Victoria’s Secret,” writes Rogin.
And, at the Southern Baptist Convention, held on June 27, Resolution #8 read “On the Uyghur Genocide, credible reporting from human rights journalists and researchers concludes that more than a million Uyghurs, a majority Muslim ethnic group living in Central and East Asia, have been detained in a network of concentration camps in the Xinjiang Province.”
This marks the first time that a major American religious organization has called out China and calling it what it is, genocide.
The SBC called on “the Chinese Communist Party and the People’s Republic of China to cease its program of genocide against the Uyghur people immediately, restore to them their full God-given rights, and put an end to their captivity and systematic persecution and abuse.”
