Aziz Isa Elkun could not tolerate the 70th anniversary of the establishment of Shinjiang Uyghur Autonomous region this week and could not tolerate the footage of Chinese leader Xi Jinping.
Xi’s Livestream of Chinese state media welcomed a red-carpet, as the locals sang and danced in traditional uregur dress.
Elkun fought Xinjiang after being persecuted by the Chinese government almost three decades ago.
“I couldn’t dare to see. It was just one or two or two … and I stopped,” said the 56 -year -old Uygar poet, who is now located in London.
Celebration in Xinjiang, he told DW, “what” was contrary to “what” [Xi] Did you do a few years ago [Uyghur] community. ,
“Now you sing to people. It’s ridicule,” said Elkun.
XI calls for ‘social stability’
Under the rule of Xi in the last decade, the mass details and heavy monitoring of ethnic uregur groups in Xinjiang have intensified.
When he faced criticism from abroad, Beijing implicated clampdown as terrorism in the region.
During her three -day visit to Xinjiang this week, Xi called for “every effort to maintain social stability”.
The Chinese President met with the Andresstatives of all ethnic groups, hoping that “everyone would move together to make a beautiful Shinjiang and move forward,” according to the report of the Xinhua news agency.
At the same time, the Communist Party’s ethnic autonomy system “fully correct” and “effective”.
Under the Chinese constitution, ethnic minorities have the right to “practice regional autonomy, establish autonomous organs and practice self-governance” under the guidance of Beijing.
Why did Beijing hit Shinjang?
On October 1, as an autonomous region, Shinjiang will mark the 70th anniversary of the designation of the Chinese Communist Party of Shinjiang.
The region, originally known as East Turkistan, is home to the native Turkic speaking Uygar, but has seen a large flow from China’s ethnic Han majority under the rule of Beijing.
The authorities only provided limited autonomy to local ethnic groups including Muslim majority Uygar. The region broke social unrest in the 2000s and many violent incidents.
In 2014, China was surprised by a terrorist attack, when two cars set a decline through a shopkeeper, establishing explosives in a busy road market in Urumki, the capital of Shinjiang.
About 40 bytenders were killed and four attackers lost their lives.
Under Xi, the Chinese government blamed the Uygar extremists and started doubling religious and cultural repression in the region.
“It was designed as a ‘9/11 of China’. The Professor studying the impacts of monitoring on the stateless population in Asia at the Simon Fraser University (SFU) in Canada was inspired to build high -tech monitoring for the Associate Professor and it was inspiration to build high -tech monitoring.
Half million uyghurs detailed
In the following years, Beijing announced that tens of thousand “terrorists” were arrested.
The authorities began building the so -called “vocational training centers” to “educate” ethnic minorities.
Biler told DW that the primary goal for Chinese authorities “Shinjiang is to make a place that is completely integrated with the rest of the country … a place that is open to business.”
“To get there,” Hey said, “they want to convert Uygar into a productive workforce.”
In an Atlantic Council report published last year, the bee was imprisoned by at least one million Uygar 2022, although it is difficult to verify the accurate figures due to China’s tight sanctions on official figures.
Recent reports have accused Beijing of forcibly running a labor program that transfer hundreds of Uygar to cloth, manufacturing and agricultural work from detention centers.
Tourist mask extensive monitoring
At the anniversary celebrations in Shinjiang, Xi pronounced the area for “deepening the integration of culture and tourism” by fully implementing the central government guidelines.
State-in-law China DailyShinjiang received 302 million tourist trips last year, which is about $ 50.4 billion (€ 43.1 billion) in tourism revenue – despite the ongoing international concerns on human rights violations.
But the analyst says that the festive atmosphere faces a harsh reality.
“What is happening at the village level at the village level, where many of these policies of cultural abolition are being implemented at the village level,” said Timothy Gros at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology.
Scholar Bayerr at SFU, so noted that Beijing has seen Shinjiang’s huge monitoring network less for outsiders.
“Low infiltration is a checkpoint monitoring,” Blar told DW, “but the license-plate and facial identification systems are still in operation. [authorities] People are also tracking digital behavior. ,
“This is a very uninterrupted system. If you are a resident of Xinjiang, the government knows where you are all the time.” He said.
Researchers put out of Xinjiang
Human rights groups, including Amnesty International, have long been urged to the international community and the United Nations to increase the pressure on Beijing on their repression of Uygar.
In 2022, the United Nations released a report accusing China of “severe human rights violations” in Xinjiang, which could be for crimes against humanity.
However, in land investigation, it has become rapidly difficult in recent years, outsiders only to reach the region on tightly managed tourism.
“The access to the researchers is almost cut off for researchers,” said Chinese study professor Gros. “Many of these tourists and tourists do not have linguistic, historical, or cultural knowledge, which have to make meaningful comparison with the first to happen.”
Uyghur still speaks from abroad
Nevertheless, it remains great, pointing to “a very, very active migrant”, preserves Uyghur culture abroad.
“They are bees active in establishing cultural centers, publishing books, teaching language to children and maintaining religious elements of their identity,” Great said.
Alkun, now a researcher at the University of SOAS, London, is one of the subject. Hey published poems about his motherland and continued to speak despite the Chinese police despite harassing his mother in Shinjiang.
“I hope. I believe, as I said earlier, justice will be strong,” hey said.
DW reporter June vehicle protested for this report
Edited by: Darko Jenjeevic