A Tibetan nun, photo by\u00a0Luca Galuzzi<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n At the end of January, a\u00a0confidential report<\/a>\u00a0by the German Foreign Ministry about\u00a0Xinjiang<\/a>\u2019s\u00a0transformation through education camps<\/a>\u00a0was leaked to some German media. It revealed that, while the\u00a0CCP<\/a>\u00a0claims the camps are simply \u201cvocational schools,\u201d they are in fact horrific jails where, in addition to torture and extra-judicial killing, sexual abuse of female inmates is regularly reported.<\/p>\n A few days before,\u00a0The New York Times\u00a0<\/em>published a feature article<\/a>\u00a0by a reporter who had been to Kazakhstan and has interviewed\u00a0ethnic Kazakhs<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Uyghurs<\/a>\u00a0who had escaped there from the camps in Xinjiang. What she learned there was far away from the whitewashed accounts of \u201cvocational schools.\u201d \u201cOne man, she wrote, was caged underground in a police station, beaten until he lost the hearing in one ear.\u201d Others \u201cwere shackled and strung up as if crucified\u201d. It is common to tie inmates to \u201ctiger benches,\u201d chain them, and deprive them of sleep. Muslim inmates are \u201ccompelled to renounce religion\u201d and \u201cforced to thank Xi [Jinping] every night for the opportunity to be so enlightened.\u201d The female\u00a0Times\u00a0<\/em>reporter also encountered reports of sexual abuse.<\/p>\n Are these accounts believable? Last week, the debate\u00a0hit Columbia University<\/a>\u00a0in New York when a student criticized the University\u2019s magazine, which is very keen to denounce sexual abuse in other circumstances, for an article about the Xinjiang camps where reports of torture and rape were ignored.<\/p>\n Somewhat missing in the discussion is that rape as part of the CCP \u201cre-education\u201d is not new. Tibetans have long complained that it also exists in the \u201ctransformation through education camps\u201d in Tibet. Yes, the same camps are present in Tibet, and with the same name. In Tibetan, it is\u00a0lobso yosang teyney khang<\/em>\u00a0(\u0f66\u0fb3\u0f7c\u0f56\u0f0b\u0f42\u0f66\u0f7c\u0f0b\u0f61\u0f7c\u0f0b\u0f56\u0f66\u0fb2\u0f44\u0f0b\u0f63\u0f9f\u0f7a\u0f0b\u0f42\u0f53\u0f66\u0f0b\u0f41\u0f44\u0f0b), which is the equivalent of\u00a0jiaoyu zhuanhua<\/em>\u00a0(\u6559\u80b2\u8f6c\u5316), normally translated as \u201ctransformation through education\u201d camps. Not surprisingly, the same horrible accounts come from Tibet as they do from Xinjiang.<\/p>\n In 2018, the highly respected Tibetan Center for\u00a0Human Rights<\/a>\u00a0and Democracy published\u00a0the account of a Buddhist monk<\/a>\u00a0who had been detained in the\u00a0transformation through education camp<\/a>\u00a0in Sog (in Chinese, Suo)\u00a0County<\/a>, Nagchu\u00a0Prefecture<\/a>, Tibet\u00a0Autonomous Region<\/a>. Both laypersons and monks and nuns were incarcerated there. They had to endure exhausting military drills and were compelled to denounce the Dalai Lama and sing CCP songs.<\/p>\n The monk reported that after the military drills the women, particularly the Buddhist nuns, were abused and raped taking advantage of their exhaustion. \u201cMany nuns would lose consciousness during the drills, he wrote. Sometimes officers would take unconscious nuns inside where I saw them fondle the nuns\u2019 breasts and grope all over their body.\u201d Afterwards, the guards would spend the night in the nuns\u2019 cells. The monk was told by female inmates about \u201cofficers lying in the nuns\u2019 bedroom pressing unconscious nuns underneath.\u201d<\/p>\n Male and female inmates who tried to protest were severely punished. The monk reported that they were hit so badly \u201cwith electric batons that they would lose consciousness. The officers would revive the unconscious inmates by splashing water on their faces. This cycle of losing and reviving consciousness would go on for some time at the end of which the officers would use a black plastic pipe to beat and pour water on all parts of the body and then use electric batons to beat some more. Soon black and blue marks would appear on the victim\u2019s body and render him or her half-dead.\u201d<\/p>\n Rape is not only a way to satisfy the prison guards\u2019 lust. As the Catholic daily\u00a0La Croix International\u00a0<\/em>reported<\/a>, rape is in its own way a tool for re-education, as once \u201cdefiled\u201d Buddhist nuns do not feel they can return to the monasteries and continue with their monastic life. The daily reported systematic rape of nuns in Tibet has been going on for decades.<\/p>\n Other female prisoners of conscience from banned religious groups are also raped.\u00a0Falun Gong reports<\/a>\u00a0systematic sexual abuse of its female practitioners in Chinese jails. In my\u00a0book about The Church of Almighty God<\/a>, I told myself the story, which is supported by documents, of Sister Jiang Guizhi (1966-2013), a member of that church who was raped by policemen and died as a result of mistreatment and torture. There is more than one sign that Muslim women in Xinjiang are becoming the next victims of the same policy.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Accounts of sexual abuse of detained Uyghur and ethnic Kazakh women are highly believable. 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