In this mailing:
- Uzay Bulut: Communist China's Genocidal Crackdown on Uyghur Intellectuals
- Amir Taheri: China: A Colossus with a Foot of Clay
- Fourth of July Message
by Uzay Bulut • July 4, 2021 at 5:00 am
Ahmetjan Juma's brother, Mamatjan, suggested that Ahmetjan is being punished simply because he, his brother, works at Radio Free Asia (RFA) as Deputy Director of the Uyghur Service. The Chinese government has blocked international organizations and journalists from going to the region to conduct an independent investigation. "My parents told me not to contact my brothers; that if I have anything to say to them or other relatives, just to tell my mother and she will pass the message along to them." — Mamatjan Juma, brother of Ahmetjan Juma, high school principal and a literary translator, sentenced to 14 years in prison after being held for two years of "training" in China's internment camps; interview with Gatestone. "Intellectuals are the people who can lead the social discourse, guide and educate people about their history, culture and everything about Uyghurs. A nation without its intellectuals would be like a person without its brain." — Mamatjan Juma, interview with Gatestone. The report, The Uyghur Genocide, states that China bears state responsibility for an ongoing genocide against the Uyghurs, and is in breach of the UN Genocide Convention. Why is the world -- and particularly the global Muslim community -- largely silent as innocent Uyghurs are destroyed by a brutal, totalitarian regime for the "crime" of having been born a Uyghur?
China's genocide against its Uyghur ethnic minority in Xinjiang, also known as East Turkestan, presses on. Up to 1.8 million Uyghurs and other minorities have been detained in extrajudicial "re-education camps" where deaths, torture and political indoctrination take place. Pictured: The outer wall of an internment camp on the outskirts of Hotan, in China's Xinjiang region. (Photo by Greg Baker/AFP via Getty Images)
China's genocide against its Uyghur ethnic minority in Xinjiang, also known as East Turkestan, presses on. Up to 1.8 million Uyghurs and other minorities have been detained in extrajudicial "re-education camps" where deaths, torture and political indoctrination take place. This genocidal campaign seems now specifically to be targeting Uyghur intellectuals. Hundreds have been taken into internment camps, disappeared or died in custody. Among them are professors, journalists, medical researchers, doctors, actors, poets, publishers, writers and students. They are often subjected to harsher prison sentences, as well as death sentences. Many are missing. One of the victims, Ahmetjan Juma, the principal of a high school and a literary translator, was sentenced to 14 years in prison after being held for two years of "training" in China's internment camps.
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by Amir Taheri • July 4, 2021 at 4:30 am
To start with the CCP has been an instrument for ruthless repression ever since it seized full power in 1949. By best estimates... the many atrocities it led have claimed at least 80 million lives. Decades of misguided policies in Tibet, Xinjiang, Manchuria and Inner Mongolia have surpassed the worst cases of ethnic repression recorded under successive dynasties. The CCP started with a handful of self-loathing bourgeois intellectuals who sought power by appealing to a peasantry they hardly knew. A century later, it is led by another handful of self-adulating intellectuals who maintain themselves in power with the support of a new class of wealthy entrepreneurs they find harder and harder to control. The CCP may be proud of its economic success after Deng Xiaoping's reforms, but it celebrates its centenary with "re-education camps" in Xinjiang (East Turkestan), crackdown in Hong Kong and childish but dangerous imperial gesticulations in neighboring seas. Happy birthday!
Schoolchildren wave party and national flags at a ceremony marking the 100th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party on July 1, 2021 at Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China. (Photo by Kevin Frayer/Getty Images)
As China launches a series of celebrations marking the centenary of the foundation of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), one question cannot be avoided: Is there anything to celebrate? As far as the party is concerned, the answer is yes. To start with, the CCP is the oldest Communist party still in power, and that in a major country. It is also the world's second-largest party in terms of numbers, just after India's BJP or People's Party. Moreover, the CCP has led an impressive economic program that has transformed an underdeveloped country into a rapidly modernising power with global leadership ambitions. More importantly, perhaps, the CCP has created the largest Han-dominated state in history, something that even the greatest Chinese emperors never achieved. Seeing things from a broader historic angle, however, a different narrative takes shape.
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July 4, 2021 at 4:00 am
With uncountable thanks to our forefathers and all those who strive each day to preserve the values embodied in the US Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution. If we do not protect them, America's allies and the Free World, they will be taken away. We have so much to be thankful for. Very Most Joyous Fourth of July! — All of us at Gatestone.
(Image source: Architect of the Capitol/Flickr)
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