The scale and scope of these measures are clearly designed to halt Uighur births. With Uighur men detained and women sterilized, the government has laid the groundwork for the physical destruction of the Uighur people. What makes this genocide so uniquely dangerous is its technological sophistication, allowing for efficiency in its destruction and concealment from global attention. The Uighurs have been suffering under the most advanced police state, with extensive controls and restrictions on every aspect of life—religious, familial, cultural, and social.
To facilitate surveillance, Xinjiang operates under a grid management system. Cities and villages are split into squares of about people. Each square has a police station that closely monitors inhabitants by regularly scanning their identification cards , faces, DNA samples, fingerprints, and cell phones. These methods are supplemented by a machine-operated system known as the Integrated Joint Operations Platform. The system uses machine learning to collect personal data from video surveillance, smartphones, and other private records to generate lists for detention.
The Chinese government operates the most intrusive mass surveillance system in the world and repeatedly denies the international community meaningful access to it.
Recognizing or refusing to name this a genocide will be a matter of life or death. In , by the time U. Seventy-eight members of Congress have followed up with a call for the administration to impose Magnitsky sanctions on the responsible Chinese officials and issue a formal declaration of the atrocity crimes, including genocide. So far, the administration has officially imposed Magnitsky sanctions on four Chinese officials and an entity in charge of the Orwellian surveillance system and responsible for the expansion of the internment camps in Xinjiang.
The U. This will not be difficult, as U. A formal declaration of genocide is not simply symbolic. This theory is associated with the sociologist Leo Kuper, who conducted some of the earliest studies in comparative genocide. This causality is motivated by one of two theories, the scapegoat theory and the political opportunity theory.
The first theory posits that a particular group is identified as the cause of the crisis and that the solution is to eliminate the group. The second theory instead argues that the crisis creates the opportunity for a group to consolidate their power.
Government power : This theory is largely due to Rudolph Rummel and is referred to as the power principle. The more constrained the power of governments, the less it will aggress on others. The United Nations uses the following definition to classify acts of genocide: 6 any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: killing members of the group; causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; [and] forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
His definitions are listed below: 7 Genocide : among other things, the killing of people by a government because of their indelible group membership race, ethnicity, religion, language.
Politicide : the murder of any person or people by a government because of their politics or for political purposes. Mass Murder : the indiscriminate killing of any person or people by a government. Democide : The murder of any person or people by a government, including genocide, politicide, and mass murder. Data Sources. Rudolph Rummel: 20th Century Democide.
Genocide Studies Programme at Yale. Wordpress Edit Page. Our World in Data is free and accessible for everyone. However, throughout and , government forces continued to attack villages throughout Darfur, causing deaths and massive displacement of citizens.
As of late , over 2 million people remain displaced from the conflict and almost 5 million people in total have been affected. In April , President Omar al-Bashir was finally ousted. He had been in power for over 30 years and his removal was in response to months of unarmed protests, to which the government responded with armed retaliation. Air campaigns are often followed by Janjaweed militia raids. All remaining village men, women, and children are either murdered or forced to flee.
Looting, burning food stocks, enslaving and raping women and children, and stealing livestock are common. Dead bodies are tossed in wells to contaminate water supplies and entire villages are burned to the ground. Bush called for the number of international troops in Darfur to be doubled. In addition, the US has imposed economic sanctions on Sudan since However, after working and talking with the Sudanese government for years, the US formally revoked its sanctions on Sudan in On September 17, , British Prime Minister Tony Blair wrote an open letter to the members of the European Union calling for a unified response to the crisis.
Both China and Russia have blocked many United Nations resolutions on Darfur because of their support for the Sudanese government, a big trading partner. China invests heavily in Sudanese oil. Russia and China opposed UN peace keeping troops in Sudan. Since the ousting of Omar al-Bashir in early , the Sudanese government has established and retained a transitional government. Genz and other researchers say the detention centers are part of a broader birth prevention strategy, noting many of those locked up are of child-bearing age.
Beijing Olympics: What drives possible boycott of Beijing Olympics. As with other accusations related to the Uyghurs, Chinese officials dismiss these accounts as false.
At the March 20 event, Mahmut Abduwali, an associate researcher with Xinjiang Academy of Social Sciences, cited China's country-wide family planning policies in countering Genz's research. China implemented its "one-child policy" in to limit the country's population growth, a campaign Beijing ended in While China's persecution of the Uyghurs stands out in scope and severity, Xi's government has also ramped up other types of repression. Last year, China imposed a "national security" law on Hong Kong and used the statute's sweeping powers to conduct mass arrests of protesters and regime critics.
Now, Chinese officials have dramatically curbed free, direct elections in Hong Kong. Beijing also maintains an iron grip on Tibet, where Xi has escalated a campaign to stamp out the region's identity and culture through "re-educational patriotism. The State Department's human rights report says China has been monitoring and disrupting telephone and internet communications in both Tibet and Xinjiang.
The government installed surveillance cameras inside Tibetan monasteries, the report says, and has used a broader surveillance network to intimidate political dissidents, religious leaders and individual Tibetans and Uyghurs. Facebook Twitter Email. Now this Boston woman is on a mission to draw attention to China's 'genocide' Some American Uyghurs have expressed new hope the U.
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