“If students do not listen to orders, the armed police officers can fire warning shots. If the students are not deterred and continue to increase the level of tension, for example by trying to escape or seize the weapons of the officers, they must be killed. ” This is the guideline for the staff of the “professional education center” in Shufu, in the far west of Xinjiang province in China. This according to leaked documents that Aftenposten and several international media have verified. Two “students” are being handled by police during a security exercise at the Teshe prison in Xinjiang. The “prisoners” are handcuffed and a black sack is threaded over each of their heads. The photos are published by the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation. – It is no longer possible to close your eyes – It is shocking. It is difficult for us Uighurs to grasp the brutality that emerges. We are completely crushed, says Adiljan Abdurihim to NRK. He is the leader of the Norwegian Uighur Committee. Adiljan Abdurihim, chair of the Norwegian Uighur Committee. Photo: Private He, like many other Uighurs in Norway, read Tuesday’s article from Aftenposten about leaked documents from the Chinese police. The leak of several thousand documents provides an insight into what is going on inside China’s “work training centers” for Muslim minorities. If one is to believe the documents, the “teachers” are armed police officers. The so-called “students” must wear handcuffs and a sack over their heads. – It is no longer possible to close your eyes. China, which has long said that this was Western propaganda, now has an explanation problem, comments Abdurihim. The 3rd Prison Center in Dabancheng, Xinjiang, has room for 10,000 prisoners. The institution is suspected of having been used as a retraining camp for the Muslim minorities in the province. Photo: Mark Schiefelbein / AP Children and the elderly are said to have been imprisoned An “anonymous hacker” is said to have gained access to the computer system of the Chinese Public Security Agency (PSB). The hacker passed the documents on to the German China researcher Adrian Zenz. Meryemnisa Ismayil was 73 years old in 2018, when she was imprisoned in a retraining camp in Xinjiang. The photo is published by the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation. The leak includes around 100,000 files. Among them are speeches, guidelines for training employees, and pictures of safety training inside the camps. Many of them are branded as secret. The American organization Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation has published an overview of the material. On the website you can see photos from 2018 of 2884 prisoners, identified by name and age. Rahile Omer was 15 in 2018, and had then spent one year at a retraining camp in Xinjiang. The photo is published by the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation. 73-year-old Meryemnisa Ismayil is said to have been imprisoned for being a “female religious figure” (布维). Rahile Omer is said to have been imprisoned when she was 14 years old. 15 other minors are also said to have been imprisoned. According to Zenz, the documents show that 286,000 residents in the Konasheher district of Xinjiang have been deprived of their liberty in one way or another. This corresponds to around twelve percent of the total population in the district. “The proportion of prisoners in the population is thus 64 times higher than in the rest of China,” writes Zenz. The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights traveling in China China is accused of having placed hundreds of thousands of Uighurs and other ethnic minorities in retraining camps. The Dutch parliament and former US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo are among those who have called what is happening in Xinjiang “a genocide”. China rejects the criticism and believes the purpose of the camps is work training. The Chinese embassy in Oslo has not yet answered NRK’s questions. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet, together with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Beijing. Photo: Deng Hua / AP The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, is traveling in China and Xinjiang this week. The goal is to promote human rights. In a meeting with a hundred foreign diplomats, however, Bachelet dampened expectations for the trip. “This trip will not be an ‘investigation’,” Bachelet told diplomats, according to Bloomberg. The leaked documents are said to have originated from the computer systems of the police in Kashgar, in the west of Xinjiang province in China. Wants Norway to raise the issue in the Security Council Adiljan Abdurihim in the Uighur Committee believes Norway must do more to help the minorities in Xinjiang. – It is time to come up with some concrete actions. Norway must raise this issue in the UN Security Council. Although China will veto, it is important to make China’s violation of human rights visible, says Abdurihim. He believes the government should also address the situation in Xinjiang with international partners. He also asks them to have meetings with Uighur activists when they visit Norway. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs: – We take this very seriously When asked by NRK, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs does not directly respond to the request from the Uighur Committee to take up the matter in the Security Council. State Secretary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Eivind Vad Petersson (Labor Party). Photo: Sturlason State Secretary Eivind Vad Petersson (Labor Party) writes the following in an e-mail: – We take this very seriously. Norway has regularly expressed our concern about the human rights situation in Xinjiang, both in talks with the Chinese government and with other countries in the UN. According to Petersson, this was also a topic during Prime Minister Støre’s conversation with his Chinese counterpart Li Keqiang recently. – We call on the Chinese authorities to respect human rights and stop the arbitrary detention of Uighurs and other minorities. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs also urges the Chinese authorities to give the UN High Commissioner free access during his trip to China and Xinjiang.
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