cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/57662436
“When evil-doing comes like falling rain, nobody calls out ‘stop!’ When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible.”
German playwright Bertolt Brecht’s observation on the political apathy that engulfed Germany in the 1930s resonates with 21st century survivors of the Chinese state’s war against Uyghurs in its northwestern heartland, known by exiles as East Turkestan.
Germany’s slide into fascism brought book burnings and arrests of “undesirables.” It lead step by step to antisemitism, concentration camps, torture, and death. That brutal history echoes today in Beijing’s campaign against the Turkic peoples of its western regions – and in the silence of a deaf world. Only those who have experienced the terror first-hand and survived to tell the tale can hope to describe its full horrors.
Kalbinur Sidik (formerly Romanized as Qelbinur Sidik) is one such rare eyewitness to what many nations have termed a genocide. Her ordeal as a teacher inside the camps drove her to the brink of collapse. She escaped in 2019 ostensibly for medical treatment, hoping to reunite with her daughter in the Netherlands and seek asylum. Speaking out became her path to healing.
She told The Diplomat that “silence is not an option.” The faces of captives in her class have haunted her to this day. Since leaving, her mission has been to give voice to their silent cries.
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Her memoir, “Heart Full of Light” – a title reflecting the meaning of her name, Kalbinur – is full of horror and sadness but also memory, dignity and resistance. It is a cry against erasure and a wake-up call to a world that has not been listening.
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Every inch of the compound was monitored. If someone moved, a screen flashed red and zoomed in. “It was impossible not to compare them to animals in cages,” Sidik wrote of her students. “There was nowhere to hide. For them, or for me.”
The specter of organ harvesting hung over everything. Healthy young prisoners disappeared. Across Xinjiang authorities collected biodata from everyone aged 16-65. Mandatory DNA tests, bloods, iris scans, voice and gait recordings filled vast data banks, many believed for organ matching. Research later identified Saudis and Gulf Arabs traveling to eastern China for halal organs.
“Alive we were worthless, dead, and cut up, our organs were worth a ransom,” Sidik wrote.
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If it makes you feel better to consume western disinformation, have at it. It’s just the same shit as usual, though. You’d think for
millionsbillions of dollhairs they’d be able to spice it up a bit.https://responsiblestatecraft.org/china-cold-war-2669160202/
To stand by your words, can you please show any evidence of Chinese trade union other than All-China Federation Of Trade Unions?
With youth unemployment rate at 14%, how does ACFTU support them?
I never said there was more than one union.
You’re thinking like a westerner. Where everyone is trying to exploit you, and leave you washed up, if you even make it to retirement age.
Unions in the west are to protect you from the capitalists.
It looks like they’re rolling out incentives and assistance to resolve the issue.
I’m sure you’re trying to demonize China in some way, but I’m not exactly sure what you’re on about.
China has it’s fair share of issues, but it’s doing a fine job of reigning in the capitalist class, which is the number one worldwide issue. The west is literally run by the capitalist class. It’s a shit show.
But you said I’m victim to the propaganda, so that statement is not true. So it’s easy for you to win this little argument by making a point and showing how CIAd my westerner brain is.