China s relatives policy emerging as part of broader crackdown on Uyghurs ANI | Updated: May 11, 2021 11:29 IST
Hong Kong, May 11 (ANI): China s 2016 relatives policy , where Chinese government cadres are sent to live, work and sleep with families to promote national harmony in the country, has emerged as a major constituent of a broader crackdown on Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities in Xinjiang.
CNN reported that the Chinese media depicts the policy as a blend of community service and education by using rosy images of the home stay programme. However, several people who have fled Xinjiang said that the host families greeting each other as relatives are actually hostages.
China s relatives policy emerging as part of crackdown
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11 May 2021, 11:18 GMT+10
Hong Kong, May 11 (ANI): China s 2016 relatives policy , where Chinese government cadres are sent to live, work and sleep with families to promote national harmony in the country, has emerged as a major constituent of a broader crackdown on Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities in Xinjiang.
CNN reported that the Chinese media depicts the policy as a blend of community service and education by using rosy images of the home stay programme. However, several people who have fled Xinjiang said that the host families greeting each other as relatives are actually hostages.
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Hong Kong (CNN reports on May 9th) A woman raises a toast in a photo that appears to show four friends enjoying dinner together. The reality couldn’t be more different.
The woman in the white ruffled shirt is Zumrat Dawut, an ethnic Uyghur from Urumqi, who fled China in 2019 to escape the alleged repression of Muslim minorities in Xinjiang.
Her four “guests” are Chinese government cadres who lived in her home for 10 days every month for two years before her family fled, she said.
The home stay program is part of a broader crackdown on Uyghurs and ethnic minorities in Xinjiang that the US and other nations have called "genocide," an accusation that China angrily rejects.