Chapter 13 The Suppression of Xinjiang (3)

On October 1, 2018 Radio Free Asia reported that a large number of Uyghur detainees were transferred from southern Xinjiang to the northern border and that detainees from the northern border were transferred to Gansu and other places. All of them were more than 200,000 people.

Rahima Sennai, who had been detained since 2017, said, “You go into the camp saying you have 1,000 points, and the points are reduced for violations, even for yawning or smiling, and once it’s reduced to 500 points, you have to be detained for another year.”

In November 2019, the New York Times disclosed a total of 24 copies of 703 pages of classified documents brought out by traitorous officials in Xinjiang, revealing that the Chinese Communist Party had begun planning the repression and persecution of Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities in 2016 and the measures listed were broadly consistent with reports leaked over the years, indicating that the Chinese Communist Party concentration camps were indeed cruel. One female detainee said: “We were only allowed to go to the toilet for 10 minutes every day, we were not allowed to waste water washing our hands, we could only shower for 2 minutes a month with cold water and we slept on the floor with concrete walls on all sides.”

The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists also verified the authenticity of the 703 pages of documents with the participation of 75 journalists and partner organizations from 14 countries.//

It has been confirmed that at least 350,000 people have been arrested and prosecuted and more than 1 million people have been sent to “re-education camps” in extrajudicial detention since Chen’s 2016 reign in Xinjiang.

The Xinjiang’s leaked document mentions that Wang Yongzhi, secretary of the county party committee of Shandong County, Kashgar Region, was dismissed from his post. Wang Yongzhi was in charge of building detention camps in Shadong County, detaining more than 20,000 people. He released 7,000 people in defiance of the Party’s harsh policy and was punished by the Chinese Communist Party for corruption.

Another secretary of the Aketa County Party Committee, Gu Wensheng, was also dismissed from his post for failing to faithfully implement Party policies. All these suggest that there are officials within the CCP who have the conscience to resist the Party’s iron-fisted persecution.

In September 2020, the U.S. Department of State and the Treasury Department announced sanctions against four high-ranking Communist Party officials: Chen Guanguo, Secretary of the Xinjiang Wang Party Committee; Zhu Haicang, Secretary of the Political and Legal Committee; Wang Mingshan, Vice Chairman of the Xinjiang Government and Director of the Public Security Bureau; and Huo Liujun, Secretary of the Party Committee of the Public Security Bureau. All assets of the sanctioned individuals in the United States were frozen and all sectors were prohibited from trading goods or services with the sanctioned individuals. The State Department also announced that visa restrictions had been imposed on four of the sanctioned individuals and that their immediate family members would not be allowed to enter the United States.

On January 14, 2021, the U.S. announced sanctions against Xinjiang cotton and tomato products on the grounds of forced labor, refusing to import those products into the U.S.. Further, The European Union followed the U.S. and also announced sanctions, causing the Chinese Communist Party authorities to become very upset and launch a party media campaign.