Erkin Sidick: Why the CCP is Trying to Eradicate the Uyghur Race? Why Now?

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There is a section about Uyghurs in today’s (28 Jan 2020) CNN Fareed’s GlobalBriefing. It begins like this: “China’s repression of Muslim Uyghurs in the western province of Xinjiang isn’t just extreme, according to a new paper by Sheena Chestnut Greitens, Myunghee Lee, and Emir Yazici in the journal International Security—it’s novel, in that it’s “preventive.” China’s mass detentions (estimates range from 800,000 to 3 million people) in an estimated 1,200 camps, its heavy surveillance, and its forced “reeducation” all stem from a fear that Chinese Uyghurs would be “infected” by jihadism outside China’s borders, the authors argue.”

I argue that it is only partially true. I have done some research on the historical and the present-day reasons why the CCP regime wants to eradicate the Uyghur race, and why now. I think the main reasons are the following:

(1)_Needs of Belt-Road Initiative. Korla in East Turkestan (ET, aka Xinjiang) is the center of that project. CCP needs stability, land and natural resources, but not the “trouble makers” from a “foreign race”. See https://youtu.be/8VlKhyKbybI. I got the following info in 2018: The CCP army killed all the Uyghur residents (about 10,000 people) and flattened 3 villages in Korla in one night in late 2017. The outside world did not know about it because the CCP made sure that even a bird could not have flown out of the area that night.

(2) Worries related to a possible US-China war. Dai Xu, a Chinese military strategist, Senior Colonel and a key member of China’s central government carried out field research in 2009-2011 in ET, and came to the conclusion that if China goes to war with the US, the US can easily arm 300,000 – 500,000 Uyghur young men and those men will fight along with the US troops against China. He said he would not stop lobbying the central government until something is done about that. See the 40:00 – 45:00 part of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MT0FL_LBiZI&app=desktop. Yes, the CCP has already done something: Bitter Winter reported on 17 Dec 2018: “An estimated 500,000 Uyghur Muslims will be dispersed and detained throughout China.” (See https://www.change.org/p/donald-j-trump-uyghur-lives-matter-please-help-save-the-lives-of-500-000-uyghurs-being-killed-in-china)

(3) CCP has needs for land and natural resources, but not for people. Look what is CCP doing right now to the Chinese people in relation with the Wuhan coronavirus.

(4) Opportunity: Since China became rich several years ago, the CCP has bought out many international institutions such as UN and many foreign governments such that they all stay silent about all kinds of evil things the CCP does, including the eradication of the Uyghur race. That is what we are witnessing today.

(5) One of the main characters of the Han people is racial discrimination. This has been proved by 2000+ years history of China, and most of the foreigners who lived in China for several months or more know it well, too. There are many academic research papers on this topic as well.

In 2013, prof. Ai Yuejin of Nankai Univ told a class of military students the following (quote from a YouTube video; I could not find that video today):

“Do you know what is the foundation for our nation to become stronger? It is not national defense, not education, and not economy. It is the vast territory we own. We have 9.6 million square-Km of territory. It is the pride of us, the Han people. During the past 200 years we have assimilated all of the minority ethnic groups in the peripherals of China into our race. The nature of our culture is to assimilate. We change and accept the good races into our own society, and torture and eradicate the bad ones.”

That is, the Uyghur race has been decided to be “bad race” to be eradicated by CCP.

(6) One nature of the Han’s governing system and a character of the Han rulers is mass-killing. At the end of Warring States period (571 – 221 B.C.),Ying Zheng (嬴政) of Chin State invades Chu, and captures 10,000 troops as POW. Bu he orders to kill them all (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yb1CcvqJ0gc).

During Cultural Revolution, Chinese leader Mao Zedong ordered to kill 0.1% of the population, estimated 30 – 60 million people. Once, when some provincial officials report to him how many people had died in their provinces, he says: “Not enough, kill more”.

Wang Zhen came to ET in 1949 with 200,000+ best troops, and he and others who came after him killed about a million Uyghurs until 1959 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxLG8rd92g0). Mass killings of the Uyghurs continue to this day.

In short, “preventing religious extremism and terrorism” is an excuse used by the CCP to deceive the Chinese people and the outside world. The real purpose of the CCP is to eradicate all the minority ethnic groups in China, by assimilating and accepting some of them, and killing the others. All the official CCP documents and propaganda still say that “There are 56 minority ethnic groups in China”, but in reality all of them have gone except the Uyghurs and Tibetans, and it is now their turn. Throughout the history, Chinese rulers did not have any mercy for humans, animals and plants. And it is still true today, as proved by Xi Jinping when he said to show “absolutely no mercy” in eradicating the Uyghur race today.

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CNN Fareed’s GlobalBriefing on Uyghurs (28 Jan 2020)

China’s Preemptive Repression in Xinjiang

China’s repression of Muslim Uyghurs in the western province of Xinjiang isn’t just extreme, according to a new paper by Sheena Chestnut Greitens, Myunghee Lee, and Emir Yazici in the journal International Security—it’s novel, in that it’s “preventive.” China’s mass detentions (estimates range from 800,000 to 3 million people) in an estimated 1,200 camps, its heavy surveillance, and its forced “reeducation” all stem from a fear that Chinese Uyghurs would be “infected” by jihadism outside China’s borders, the authors argue.

Reacting to suspected links between Chinese Uyghurs and terrorists abroad, China sought to “inoculate” its local population, using the language of infectious disease to justify its tactics. “In that sense, it was a form of preventive repression that targeted dissent at even earlier stages than many forms of preemptive repression studied by scholars—seeking to keep contention from emerging altogether, rather than trying to respond after it has materialized,” the authors write.

China's government has consistently denied it is committing human rights abuses and insists the camps are voluntary, but the strategy could make China less safe, the authors argue, as other countries may be reluctant to cooperate with it on counterterrorism. In a recent Foreign Affairs essay, Mollie Saltskog and Colin P. Clarke go farther, asking if it could spark a global terrorist backlash.