As reports of the forced detention and brainwashing of up to 1 million ethnic Uighurs continue to emerge from China’s Xinjiang autonomous region, the ABC has heard a rare account from a witness who has been inside a camp.
Tarim, whose second name we have withheld, bribed his way into one of the “training” centres reserved for the Muslim minority, to see his sister, who was detained in 2016.
She is being held in the facility outside Aksu City, in western Xinjiang (also known as Turkistan), which Tarim described as a “concentration camp”.
“It was April and there was snow in some parts, and I saw about 500 persons on the concrete, on the ground,” he told PM in his native language, through a translator in Sydney.
“And also there were about 700 or so people … in the queue to get food, and at the same time they were singing patriotic songs: I love Communist Party, I love Xi Jinping.”
China denies it is holding people in concentration camps and claims it is taking security measures to fight terrorism in Xinjiang, where tensions between the Han Chinese and the Muslim Uighurs have run high for more than a century.
But Tarim rejects China’s explanations.
“The concentration camps are not just designed to eliminate Uighur culture and language.
Not even the Chinese like Muslims… and keep in mind that Muslims in China don’t do 10% of what they do in Europe.
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