Nobody is Talking About the Mulsim Re-Education Camps in China
History repeats itself and the world does nothing.
My heart breaks for the people suffering in Xinjiang; people are signing petitions, donating through apps, posting online and spreading awareness while world leaders watch. I can’t exactly go bashing every country on the planet, but this rings too close to the Rwandan Genocide in 1994 that the U.S. failed to help. In Rwanda, a civil war broke out between two ethnic groups and the small landlocked country launched into chaos. Over half a million people died over the course of four months.
Unfortunately for the people of Rwanda, their country did not “qualify” for a US-sponsored peacekeeping operation¹
This is happening again, this time in China. In 2017 a large territory called Xinjiang in China began creating “re-education camps” for Uighar Muslims. In only three regions in Xinjiang, 570,000 people were forced into inhumane cotton-picking operations, many being students still in school.² The people that are placed in these detention camps are targeted for attending mosques, having multiple children, conversing with Quranic verses, or simply identifying as Muslim³. Sound familiar?
It should.
Time and time again throughout history, ethnic minorities are targeted. With each occurrence, there is misinformation and secrecy. The Chinese government wants to keep this hush-hush (obviously) but the United States as a global power needs to step up. In approximately three years, the U.S. is only in the “process of reviving a bill that proposes sanctions against Chinese officials and companies linked to allegations of human rights abuses under the Global Magnitsky Act.”⁴
Not to be blunt, but that’s despicable. The UN too — they have been “requesting access to Chinese camps amid growing concerns over the mistreatment of Uighur Muslims there [and calls] for China to immediately release all those illegally detained in camps.”⁴ Cut the crap. You’re an intergovernmental organization with a hundred and ninety-three countries and the best you can do is request access?
Why isn’t this an emergency? Why isn’t the whole world talking about this? Why aren’t we doing every single thing we can to stop this…
