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Chinese authorities have sentenced the brother and sister of a prominent exiled Uyghur scholar and linguist to several years in jail in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), government and police officials in the region told RFA last month.
The confirmation of the sentence comes on the heels of an RFA report confirming that scholar Abduweli Ayup’s niece, Mihray Erkin, had died at the Yanbulaq internment camp while being investigated by state security police in Kashgar (in Chinese, Kashi) prefecture.
Abduweli Ayup is the founder of Uyghur Hjelp, a Norway-based Uyghur advocacy and aid organization which maintains a list of detained Uyghur intellectuals.
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The Genocide Convention defines genocide as any one of five acts “committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a [protected group], as such.” In addition to killing, these acts include causing serious bodily or mental harm, deliberately inflicting conditions of life calculated to bring about the group’s physical destruction in whole or in part, imposing birth-prevention measures, or forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
China has committed every one of these acts in its state-orchestrated campaign against the Uyghurs – most of them on a systematic and widespread basis. As a result of the mass internment and imprisonment on catchall charges such as being “untrustworthy,” a large number of Uyghurs have died in detention. The Chinese government does not even spare lifelong Uyghur members of the Communist Party of China (CPC) or intellectuals whom it praised in the past, thus debunking any notion that their detention is about re-educat
Birth rates in Xinjiang fell by almost half between 2017 and 2019, the Australian think tank report found, with sharper declines in counties populated by Uighurs or other minority groups.
(Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and almost all of his cabinet skipped Monday’s vote, with Foreign Affairs Minister Marc Garneau the lone cabinet member in attendance. He abstained on behalf of the federal government.) China has long proven to be a corrupt regime that cares not for human rights and targets those who dare criticize the actions of the Far East giant. Canada knows that well, with two innocent Canadians Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor having been kidnapped and detained by Chinese authorities nine days after the RCMP arrested Chinese Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou in Vancouver in December 2018 on a U.S. extradition warrant.