{"id":940,"date":"2018-07-30T17:19:44","date_gmt":"2018-07-30T17:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/akademiye.org\/en\/?p=940"},"modified":"2018-07-30T17:21:53","modified_gmt":"2018-07-30T17:21:53","slug":"officials-testimony-sheds-new-light-on-chinese-reeducation-camps-for-muslims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/akademiye.org\/en\/?p=940","title":{"rendered":"Congressional Hearing: US Tech Giants Fueling Emerging Xinjiang Human Rights Disaster"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Epoch Time<\/a><\/p>\n

WASHINGTON\u2014U.S. companies came under sharp criticism for helping the Chinese Communist Party build surveillance infrastructure used for the detention of hundreds of thousands in concentration camps in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, at a hearing of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China. An expert said the repression in Xinjiang likely includes mass, forced organ harvesting from Uyghurs.<\/p>\n

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) said at the July 26 hearing: \u201cIt\u2019s hypocritical for American corporations and multinationals doing business in China, who are fully prepared to boycott American cities and American communities because they don\u2019t like things that are happening here, to be okay to turn a blind eye to what\u2019s happening and not criticize the government of China and the Communist Party because they don\u2019t want to jeopardize their ability to sell products in that country. It\u2019s an outrage. It\u2019s an embarrassment.\u201c<\/p>\n

Rubio called out two companies: Google and Thermo Fisher Scientific.<\/p>\n

\u201c[Google] doesn\u2019t want to give AI technology to the [U.S.] military because, God forbid, we may use it some day to target a terrorist or someone who wants to harm America. But [Google] has no problem opening up a center of AI in China, knowing full well how anything you do in China\u2014if it\u2019s a benefit to the military, they\u2019re going to use it; if it\u2019s a benefit to the security services, they\u2019re going to use it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Thermo Fisher Scientific is an American company supplying DNA sequencing equipment to Xinjiang police. \u00a0According to Dr. Enver Tohti<\/a>, a former surgeon from Xinjiang and head of the Uyghur Association in England, starting in June of 2016 the Chinese authorities began a \u201cphysical exam\u201d project in which they conducted large-scale blood testing of 15-20 million Uyghurs living in Xinjiang.<\/p>\n

ian Thum, associate professor at Loyola University, and a witness at the hearing, described the situation in Xinjiang as \u201can emergency that calls for immediate action.\u201d<\/p>\n

Witnesses at the hearing testified to the existence of \u201cpolitical reeducation\u201d centers or camps throughout Xinjiang where upwards of 800,000 to 1 million people are held and subjected to torture, medical neglect and maltreatment, solitary confinement, sleep deprivation, and other forms of abuse resulting in the death of some detainees.<\/p>\n

At the hearing, U.S. Representative to the United Nations Economic and Social Council Kelley Currie admitted, \u201cThe United States is deeply troubled by the Chinese government\u2019s crackdown on Uyghurs, Kazakhs, and other Muslims in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region,\u201d but complained that the United States has little support in the United Nations. \u201cWe are relatively alone in this,\u201d as the CCP have been using all means to undermine U.S. efforts.<\/p>\n

Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.) said that the Global Magnitsky Act should be looked at as one of the tools to tackle the problem. He cited the Belarus Democracy Act of 2004, which he authored. \u201cLukashenko, the dictator in Belarus, was sanctioned, along with about 200 other people.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Smith described the \u201c<\/strong>Magnitsky Act\u201d as a \u201ctool of surpassing capabilities,\u201d and said that the United States should ask its embassy in Beijing to \u201cgive us the names\u201d of \u201cwho is responsible for this horrific carnage being imposed upon the Muslim Uyghurs.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ethan Gutmann, author of \u201cThe Slaughter: Mass Killings, Organ Harvesting, and China\u2019s Secret Solution to Its Dissident Problem\u201d and an investigative journalist who has spent more than a decade investigating live organ harvesting in China, spoke about the significance of the mass blood testing taking place in Xinjiang. He did not take part in the hearing, but commented by email on the situation in Xinjiang.<\/p>\n

He said, \u201cHistory appears to be repeating itself. For the years 2000 to 2008, I postulated that 450,000 to a million Falun Gong were incarcerated in the Laogai System at any given time.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow, the Congressional Executive Commission on China has confirmed that half a million to a million Uyghurs are presently incarcerated in \u2018re-education\u2019 camps, or \u2018transformation\u2019 facilities at any given time.\u00a0And as anyone who has studied the Falun Gong closely will know, the tragedy lies behind these numbers.\u201d<\/p>\n

In Gutmann\u2019s book \u201cThe Slaughter\u201d he makes the case that Falun Gong practitioners have been subjected to systematic forced organ harvesting, with their organs used in China\u2019s transplantation industry. Scholars have recently characterized that organ harvesting as a \u201ccold genocide\u201d\u2014one taking place slowly over time.<\/p>\n

\u201cUyghur detainees have been reporting suspicious medical tests for two decades,\u201d Gutmann said. And the blood and DNA testing of the population \u201cwas followed by the mass detention of Uyghurs. Now, there may be several uses for the DNA samples, including surveillance (of \u2018health\u2019\u2014the Chinese official explanation). But the blood tests? That\u2019s compatible with tissue matching for organ transplant.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne more number: The Chinese Communist Party is building nine crematoriums in Xinjiang. The first one, near Urumqi, just became operational. And the Chinese are not hiring two or three security guards, as most crematoriums would. They are hiring 50.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is what a human rights catastrophe looks like. The signs are unmistakable.\u201d<\/p>\n

Source:\u00a0https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/congressional-hearing-us-tech-giants-fueling-emerging-xinjiang-human-rights-disaster_2608128.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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