senseis a researcher with the foundation fictive of communism and specializes in china s treatment of religious minorities you saw him in that report he joins us from st paul in the u.s. state of minnesota welcome to d.w. are you convinced that these documents a genuine. yes i m convinced they are their contents matches very closely in my previous research findings their formatting matches very closely with other documents and affected their highly confidential and secret is unfortunately very consistent with beijing s propaganda and lying campaign by trying to cover up what they re doing. so you we heard you speak in that report about china committing cultural a genocide just outline for us what it is the beijing has against its weak a minority there we just have been very difficult for china they d like to to
a good question yes. i don t know they are raising them somewhere. putting them to pieces all they try to. get money out of it wherever it may be from in auction houses or are from the state from the state or from the country in the least i don t know exactly what they are doing it s interesting though you. know it we heard the head of the state museums there saying that we cannot give these jewels of value because they would be impossible to sell but that that can t be true because i m glad they would have just stolen them for the sake of stealing them you can put them in pots. and cut them and sell them but is nothing worth this not so much worth as these torkel worth of it and it s
incredibly wealthy the completeness of this collection in this is unique in the world. and this is the loss that something is is not complete anymore and so when something like this happens where do they whether there are obviously the police will will investigate the seed into all the forensic investigations but if somebody involved in this in this area where would you be looking. i don t know exactly it can be everywhere it can be in in the czechoslovakia over the border can be in russia it can be wherever in the world. someone is flying to another country i don t know exactly where this and so when something like this happens. and you mention that it might be that they sell it or it might be that they actually ransom them back to the state they might
we re talking about here is a priceless historic art and cultural value. also coming up the lead chinese government documents reveal details about the forced detention of something like a 1000000 we go muslims their significance is that we have an unprecedented insight into what the chinese government is really doing the endgame is to change an entire minority population it s a cultural genocide and it s a course of social range nearing. for us here in germany have pulled off a spectacular heist of one of europe s most renowned museums police in the eastern city of dresden say the break in at the green vaults come back and took place in the early hours of monday morning and that looting clues priceless early 18th century jewelry the state run museum is photo around $4000.00 presses sobbed jacks made of gold silver jewels and divers. dress dozens of green vault museum
camps the key leaked document lays out how they should be run it states the inmates are not allowed any contact with the outside world owning a mobile phone is strictly forbidden they can t should be under constant video surveillance to prevent escape the papers also describe a scoring system that grades detainees on how well they speak mandarin and memorize state sanctioned ideology the documents back up testimony of former detainees like zome or ada watty the businesswoman was detained after being stopped by police and questioned over a u.s. visa in her passport or. in class they would tell us that we had been poisoned by religion that islam is an infectious disease that came from abroad. and that if there needed to be a religion in china it must be buddhism. former detainees have also confirmed the harsh disciplinary regime detailed in the leaked papers. we had to talk