Nov 30, 2018 20:00:00

It is pointed out that Uyghur accommodation facilities in China are expanding rapidly

In the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region at the western end of China live a large number of Uighur people who believe in Islam. Although the Chinese government is taking international criticism from human rights groups and others, "It is strengthening the pressure on people of Uyghur", it shows a strong stance towards Uighur and other ethnic minorities. In such Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region it is said that there is a facility to accommodate Muslims, mainly Uyghur tribe, and we have summarized the findings that Reuters independently examined Uyghur camp.

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The Uyghurs and the Chinese government have been colliding with each other for a long time and in 2009 collision occurred with a large security forces known as Uighur mayhem and a protestor. Regarding the Uighur chaos, there have also been criticisms that "the announcement by the Chinese government reports underestimation of Uyghur's injuries", but the Chinese government has further strengthened the pressure on Uyghur people further since then.

In September of 2018, the Chinese government reported from the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region that residents of the Uighur Autonomous Region "Not to install a surveillance application on smartphone", the Chinese government strengthened the monitoring system for Uighurs I can see how it is. .

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Meanwhile, there was an indication that Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region had facilities to accommodate Uighurs, and it was subject to discussion at the United Nations Conference. According to one opinion inside the facility, it is said that one million Uyghurs are housed, but the Chinese government insists that it is only an educational facility and detailed information on facilities is not disclosed .

Therefore, Reuters investigated the facility that the Chinese government houses the Uighurs, using documents related to the construction of many satellite photos and facilities.

The following image is taken of a building seen as a Uighur accommodation facility from a distance. There are several buildings on the land located at the foot of the mountain range.

A building on the front side is a vocational skill education training center of the local public corporation located in Takancho , Turpan city . It is believed here that Uighur people are housed ... ...

The surroundings are separated by walls.

Also, it is said that security guards are watching overlook guards installed in the square of the building.

Based on the 80 documents on the construction of facilities, Reuters confirmed 39 facilities clearly identifiable from satellite photographs. After tracking the construction status of the facility for about two years, Reuters has confirmed that the facility is expanding rapidly.

The Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region is in contact with Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan in the west, Russia and Mongolia in the north and northeast, and has the Taklamakan Desert , the largest desert in China. As if surrounding such Taklimakan Desert, Uighur accommodation facilities are dotted.

Especially since 2017 the size of the accommodation facilities seems to be expanding rapidly, and the facility of Korla City , the huge facility that can be confirmed, has been doubled from April 2017 as Reuters Says.

It is the one that pulled out the building part from the above satellite photograph. The white part of the figure is a building part newly built in April 2017 after the building part, the orange part of the facility in Korla city which was built before 2017.

As of April 2017 when Reuters began investigations, 39 facilities, which are considered to be Uighur accommodation facilities, had 539 buildings in total, and the total area was about 380,000 square meters.

However, by the end of August 2018 the scale of the facility expanded rapidly. The number of buildings is doubled to 1129 buildings, the site area has expanded to nearly 10,000 square meters, which is close to 3 times, and this size is about 140 soccer courts. Construction of the facility continues even at the time of article creation.

Looking at the following satellite photographs capturing the facility in Takasaki Ward in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, it was only around the beginning of 2017 that the foundation of the building could only be seen in the vast desert ......

Many buildings are lined up in October 2018.

When you look at the color, you can see the state of the facility surrounded by the wall suddenly appeared in the middle of the wasteland.

Police and security forces in the Chinese government are closely monitoring foreign reporters who have entered the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region and Reuters' reporters who actually interviewed in the Xinjiang Uighur autonomous region are almost always under the supervision of the police He said that. Sometimes security forces have ceased reporters trying to get close to the facility that is considered to be a Uighur accommodation facility.

An iron wire net is wrapped around the outer wall of the facility, the appearance of a surveillance tower with a surveillance camera set up reminds me of a prison.

When Reuters listened to eight former detainees who escaped to a foreign country, "In a facility like a prison, every action including a toilet is monitored by a camera or a microphone and sleeping is not free," ex-detainee I mentioned. Also, I thought about committing suicide in unbearable treatment, such as recite Chinese national anthem and assertion, for those who could not correctly say the words the Communist Party gave me no meals, or forced to give up religion It was said that there was also a person called. It is clear that the situation inside the facility is different from what the Chinese government claims as "a vocational training facility for Uighurs".

Four out of eight people interviewed were Uyghur and four were Kazakh , and it seems that if they were Muslims not only Uyghur, they were housed in the facility. Most of the eight people left families in China, and everyone said they wanted anonymity.

Many Han Chinese are advancing settlements in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, and China's flag flapping near the mosque in the town ... ...

There are no reality as an original religious facility, as the mosque is a bar serving water cigarettes and alcohol. It is said that the worshipers will not visit the mosque because Chinese authorities are keeping the eye on the surveillance.