{"id":229978,"date":"2020-09-01T14:41:54","date_gmt":"2020-09-01T19:41:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=229978"},"modified":"2020-09-01T00:52:07","modified_gmt":"2020-09-01T05:52:07","slug":"survivors-china-concentration-camps-genocide-forced-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/survivors-china-concentration-camps-genocide-forced-abortion\/","title":{"rendered":"Survivors of China’s concentration camps tell of genocide, forced abortion, and more"},"content":{"rendered":"
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An investigative report from BuzzFeed News is bringing more attention to the genocidal efforts of the Chinese government towards the Uighur Muslims. The report, which features satellite images and interviews with survivors, shows that the campaign to exterminate the Uighur people is only getting worse, as the world continues to look the other way.<\/p>\n

Part I<\/a> of the BuzzFeed investigation showed how the government had repurposed old buildings to be used as makeshift prisons, but the government’s genocidal efforts outgrew them. As a result, massive detention facilities have been built over the past three years. It is estimated that over one million<\/a> Uighurs, Kazakhs, and other Muslim minorities have been held captive in concentration camps. The data uncovered by BuzzFeed News likewise found evidence of factories, which use forced labor, within the prison compounds.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople are living in horror in these places,\u201d 49-year-old Zhenishan Berdibek, a survivor of the camps, told BuzzFeed News. \u201cSome of the younger people were not as tolerant as us \u2014 they cried and screamed and shouted.\u201d Berdibek, however, didn’t have the strength to fight back. \u201cI lost my hope,\u201d she said. \u201cI wanted to die inside the camp.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Of the 268 newly built compounds BuzzFeed News was able to identify, they reported that 92 can conclusively be identified or verified as detention centers, using information from government procurement documents, academic research, or journalists’ visits. BuzzFeed News claims that another 172 have been identified using satellite imagery, with prison complexes complete with barbed wire, thick walls, and guard towers. “The most highly fortified compounds offer little space between buildings, tiny concrete-walled yards, heavy masonry construction, and long networks of corridors with cells down either side,” BuzzFeed reported. “Their layouts are cavernous, allowing little natural light to the interior of the buildings. BuzzFeed News could see how rooms were laid out at some high-security facilities by examining historical satellite photos taken as they were being constructed, including photos of buildings without roofs.”<\/p>\n