{"id":807,"date":"2018-05-30T12:59:17","date_gmt":"2018-05-30T12:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/akademiye.org\/en\/?p=807"},"modified":"2018-05-30T12:59:17","modified_gmt":"2018-05-30T12:59:17","slug":"beijing-accused-of-forcing-uyghur-han-intermarriages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/akademiye.org\/en\/?p=807","title":{"rendered":"Beijing accused of forcing Uyghur-Han intermarriages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/akademiye.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/201407020542050.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-813 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/akademiye.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/201407020542050.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4608\" height=\"2536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/akademiye.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/201407020542050.jpg 4608w, https:\/\/akademiye.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/201407020542050-300x165.jpg 300w, https:\/\/akademiye.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/201407020542050-768x423.jpg 768w, https:\/\/akademiye.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/201407020542050-1024x564.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 4608px) 100vw, 4608px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.atimes.com\/article\/beijing-accused-of-forcing-uyghur-han-intermarriages\/\">Asia Times<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Beijing is bent on &#8216;racial cleansing&#8217; targeting Uyghurs in the name of social inclusion and assimilation, a rights group claims.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A video clip of a gloomy bride, believed to be a young Uyghur woman, appearing to begrudge marrying her groom, a member of China\u2019s predominant Han race, has been circulating online, with observers and Uyghur human-rights advocacy groups calling it more proof of Beijing\u2019s callous bid to \u201cattenuate\u201d the Uyghur identity in Xinjiang.<\/p>\n<p>The video is believed to have been taken in southern Xinjiang, a vast region that has been highly populated by Uyghurs in small communities since they were hived off in sweeping re-siting programs executed in the region\u2019s capital Urumqi after the Communist Party\u2019s takeover of China in 1949.<\/p>\n<p>Talk to East Turkestan, a Xinjiang human-rights concern group, alleged on its Facebook page that the relatives of this Uyghur woman were held captive at an \u201cideological remolding camp\u201d set up by local party cadres and she had to marry that Han man she had met just two months ago, for the safety and release of her family members.<\/p>\n<p>The celebration of a marriage that was not at all euphoric was the latest evidence of Beijing\u2019s systematic \u201cracial cleansing\u201d and \u201cgenocide,\u201d the group claimed in a post.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/akademiye.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/5b0bd12776736.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-814 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/akademiye.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/5b0bd12776736.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"401\" srcset=\"https:\/\/akademiye.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/5b0bd12776736.png 500w, https:\/\/akademiye.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/5b0bd12776736-300x241.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/akademiye.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/intermarriage-fb.jpg\"><br \/>\n<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/akademiye.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/intermarriage-fb.jpg\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The group also indicated that virtually all male Uyghurs would be incarcerated for education programs held at schools and government facilities for varying lengths.<\/p>\n<p>Talk to East Turkestan, a Xinjiang human-rights concern group, alleged on its Facebook page that the relatives of this Uyghur woman were held captive at an \u201cideological remolding camp\u201d set up by local party cadres and she had to marry that Han man she had met just two months ago, for the safety and release of her family members.<\/p>\n<p>The celebration of a marriage that was not at all euphoric was the latest evidence of Beijing\u2019s systematic \u201cracial cleansing\u201d and \u201cgenocide,\u201d the group claimed in a post.<\/p>\n<p>The group also indicated that virtually all male Uyghurs would be incarcerated for education programs held at schools and government facilities for varying lengths.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/akademiye.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/intermarriage-fb.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-815\" src=\"http:\/\/akademiye.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/intermarriage-fb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"435\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/akademiye.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/intermarriage-fb.jpg 435w, https:\/\/akademiye.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/intermarriage-fb-243x300.jpg 243w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 435px) 100vw, 435px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Asia Times:\u00a0http:\/\/www.atimes.com\/article\/beijing-accused-of-forcing-uyghur-han-intermarriages\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asia Times Beijing is bent on &#8216;racial cleansing&#8217; targeting Uyghurs in the name of social inclusion and assimilation, a rights group claims. A video clip of a gloomy bride, believed to be a young Uyghur woman, appearing to begrudge marrying her groom, a member of China\u2019s predominant Han race, has been circulating online, with observers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinas-uyghur-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/akademiye.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/akademiye.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/akademiye.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akademiye.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akademiye.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=807"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/akademiye.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":816,"href":"https:\/\/akademiye.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807\/revisions\/816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/akademiye.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akademiye.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akademiye.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}