Highlights of the RFA Uighur reporting – Radio -free Asia

Radio Free Asia has provided Uyghurs a unique international intelligence service that exposes China's creeping persecution of the Muslim minority in real time and culminated in the later explanation of a genocide of the US government.

RFA Uyghur was in the avant -garde when he reported a massive procedure in the Xinjiang region in the distant West China in 2017, which led to an estimated 1.8 million people in internment camps. By speaking directly to sources in Xinjiang, it documented the suppression of Uyghurs when the procedure began before other news agencies focused on the topic.

RFA also played an important role in promoting the language and culture of Uyghurian culture and focused on the human struggles and the resilience of Uyghurs to keep their dignity and identity.

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Mass liability begins in 2017

In 2017, RFA documented the crisis in 2017 when RFA was exposed to the pressure of the Chinese authorities in Xinjiang. The Uyghur service reported on the confiscation of Koraners, forced samples of the Uyghurs -DNA, which had not committed a crime, the review of digital devices as monitoring became increasingly intrusive and the conversion of mosques into propaganda centers.

Then in September, RFA confirmed with police sources that thousands of Uighers and other Muslim ethnic minorities in subway bearings were held in subcontracting “extremism” in subway camps without contact with their families under a guideline.

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Mass deaths reported in a internment camp

In October 2019, RFA reported that at least 150 prisoners had died in just one internment camp in Kuchar County over a period of six months and marked the first confirmation of mass extinction since the introduction of the camp in 2017 in 2017. This information came from a policeman who had served as an administrative assistant in No. 1 Internet camp in the Yengisher district.

The report confirmed earlier statements by a former police chief who himself found that he might have died in the camps more than 200 inhabitants in his community.

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Despite China claims, still held in camps

The Funk -Free Asia Uyghur Service announced in the period 2018 to 2020 that despite Chinese claims that internment camps in Xinjiang had been concluded, several facilities were in operation, including large camps in Kashgar City and surrounding regions. The RFA -Uyghur service reported that thousands of Uighears were still arrested in these facilities without legal procedures. Officials admitted that people “continuously came in”. Some of the largest camps, such as the Yanbulaq School in Kashgar, held thousands of people who were forced to learn Mandarin Chinese and undergo political indoctrination.

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USA: genocide against Uyghurs in Xinjiang

On the eve of the first exit of the Trump government from the office in January 2021, Foreign Minister Mike Pompeo said that the United States had defined China's oppression of Uyghurs and other mostly Muslim ethnic minorities in Xinjiang, including the use of internment camps and forced sterilizations, “genocide and” crimes against humanity “and” crimes against humanity “.

The pioneering decision was welcomed by Uyghurische Groups who said that it would make it impossible for the international community to ignore the atrocities in Xinjiang.

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The Xinjiang police receive one

RFA provided decisive reporting on the Xinjiang police files and documented how these official Chinese records showed detailed information about thousands of prisoners from Uyghur prisoners. The files contained clear pictures and information about Camp prisoners who were arrested in 2018 in Kashgar Kona Sheher County. The youngest were only 14 years old and the oldest 73.

RFA interviewed Uyghurs in exile, who found pictures and information about her missing relatives, friends and former cell comrades in the leaked documents and gave many her first confirmation of what had happened to her loved ones.

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Stories of Uyghur resilience and success

RFA has reported on the Uyghur Diaspora Community, which prevails through adversity and has achieved professional success. In the United States, Adalet Sabit described the challenges of raising a young Uyghurian daughter separated by her father. Adalet's husband Abliz was prevented from leaving China after the authorities confiscated his passport.

RFA also spoke to Arfiya Eri, the first person of the Uyghur Erben who runs as the main candidate in a Japanese election. Born and grew up in Japan, she defined success as “if an individual can live freely, and the way he chose.”

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