{"id":882,"date":"2021-10-11T17:43:53","date_gmt":"2021-10-11T14:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dukva.org\/en\/?p=882"},"modified":"2021-10-11T17:43:55","modified_gmt":"2021-10-11T14:43:55","slug":"uyghurs-tortured-and-beaten-to-death-in-xinjiang-former-chinese-police-officer-revealsnew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dukva.org\/en\/uyghurs-tortured-and-beaten-to-death-in-xinjiang-former-chinese-police-officer-revealsnew\/","title":{"rendered":"UYGHURS TORTURED AND BEATEN TO DEATH IN XINJIANG, FORMER CHINESE POLICE OFFICER REVEALSNEW"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Sky News<\/a>. 11 October 2021<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Below is an article published by Sky News<\/a>. Photo:AFP.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The man, who says he served as a police officer in\u00a0Xinjiang<\/strong>\u00a0and asked only to be identified by the name Jiang, told Sky News of the grim conditions on board the trains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe gather them together, put hoods on their head, two people handcuffed together, to prevent them from escaping,\u201d he told Sky News.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jiang said that freight trains were used to transport Uyghurs<\/strong> who had travelled to other parts of China back to Xinjiang.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some 500 detainees would be transported at a time from freight stations, with more than 100 prisoners to each carriage, he said. Two policemen would be assigned to each prisoner.Advertisement<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDuring the train transportation we do not give them food,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThey are only allowed bottle caps to drink water \u2013 to moisten their lips.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTo keep order, we don\u2019t let them go to the toilet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThey reach their destinations in two days. They reach Xinjiang.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

WHO ARE THE UYGHUR PEOPLE AND WHY DO THEY FACE OPPRESSION BY CHINA?<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

The Uyghurs are a group of people \u2013 mostly Muslim \u2013 who live mainly in the Xinjiang area of China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They have been living there for at least several hundred years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

China has been accused of interning up to one million Uyghurs in \u201cre-education\u201d centres in Xinjiang and increasing the number of non-Uyghurs in the region, so the proportion of Uyghurs there is declining.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In April, MPs in the UK declared that Uyghurs and other ethnic and religious minorities in China\u2019s Xinjiang region are being subjected to genocide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

China denies all allegations of human rights abuses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Drone footage released in 2019 showed apparently Uyghur prisoners being unloaded from a train \u2013 blindfolded and shackled, their heads shaved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jiang said that the video most likely showed prisoners being transferred from various detention centres to a larger central facility, because of their different uniforms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jiang told Sky News he had served as a soldier before working as a detective in a local Public Security Bureau.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He provided extensive documentation of his credentials, including pictures, videos, police graduation and registration certificates, and other official documents. The specific details he alleged are impossible to verify.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At a press conference in Beijing, Sky News asked the Chinese government about Jiang\u2019s allegations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Elijan Anayat, a spokesperson for the Xinjiang government, said: \u201cChina is a country ruled by law. Police act and handle crimes in accordance with relevant PRC laws. It\u2019s forbidden to imprison people illegally and torture people to coerce a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPolice must protect all the suspect\u2019s rights. So the things said by the man that officials didn\u2019t let them go to toilets and that they had no water to drink, and so on, do not exist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe training centres operate in accordance with PRC\u2019s laws and the human rights protection law. They fully ensure fully rights and protect their dignity. It\u2019s forbidden to insult or treat students badly by any means. The things said by the so-called local policeman could not happen.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Chinese government has previously described accusations of human rights abuses in Xinjiang as \u201cthe lie of the century\u201d and insisted that people in Xinjiang live happy lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jiang\u2019s testimony contradicts that. Evidence from those who worked for the Chinese state in Xinjiang is extremely rare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He described the brutal tactics used by police and camp guards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn cases related to politics, jeopardising the regime, cases involving overthrowing the regime \u2013 you\u2019re allowed to beat people,\u201d he told Sky News. \u201cIt\u2019s ok, to make them turn in other people\u2019s names.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYou use various methods to put pressure; two people use sticks to weigh down their legs; tie him up and trample their arm; shackle their hands, pour cold water \u2013 put a water pipe into their mouth and tie them up,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHow to say, under this kind of management in the re-education centre, beating somebody to death, for sure, it happens.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIf accidents occur, it\u2019s normal that some people die. That\u2019s just how you get used to saying it. Please do not blame me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThey don\u2019t see ordinary people as human beings. They do things that you don\u2019t do to human beings.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jiang said he usually worked in criminal investigation departments elsewhere in China but was dispatched to Xinjiang as part of an \u201cAid Xinjiang\u201d programme which involved tens of thousands of armed police and ordinary officers being transferred to the region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He told Sky News that Xinjiang \u201cwas in a state of wartime control\u201d when he was posted there in 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhen I got there, more than 900,000 people had already been detained for numerous petty reasons like saying something wrong. They had been sent to the re-education centres to be controlled.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe detained them on orders from the superiors. Not on any evidence. What kind of evidence can we have? What kind of evidence does this need?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He said that people in Xinjiang lived under constant surveillance, physically and digitally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Grounds for suspicion and detention included differing opinions on the government, appealing to higher authorities for help, or even not selling alcohol and cigarettes, he said \u2013 all could be considered \u201cideological issues\u201d justifying re-education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jiang drew a distinction between those sentenced to prison and those sent to re-education centres.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThose who actually contacted other people and planned to rebel, they can be sentenced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBut in people in the re-education centres are not severe enough to be sentenced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThey have problems with their thoughts.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jiang also said that prisons and re-education centres both contained factories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThey do different things which can make money, but nobody wants to do,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIf one official says that they need to work nine hours, the head of the re-education centre might think, if I make them work two hours more, I can make more money.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He said: \u201cThe leadership says very good things on stage: \u2018I\u2019ll serve the people! Let\u2019s do our best!\u2019 But offstage, in reality \u2013 corruption. They accept bribes every day, they corrupt state property. It\u2019s reached a degree you can\u2019t imagine.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMy values collapsed. One\u2019s values about what is right and what is wrong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not betraying the motherland, I\u2019m just against the corrupted class.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019m not afraid of the danger. I have seen much life and much death. I have seen many dead people. It\u2019s a way for me to free myself.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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