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Former inmates of China’s Muslim ‘reeducation’ camps tell of brainwashing, torture
Washington Post ^ | May 17, 2018 | Simon Denyer

Posted on 05/27/2018 9:13:20 AM PDT by Zhang Fei

BEIJING — Kayrat Samarkand says his only “crime” was being a Muslim who had visited neighboring Kazakhstan. On that basis alone, he was detained by police, aggressively interrogated for three days, then dispatched in November to a “reeducation camp” in China’s western province of Xinjiang for three months.

There, he faced seemingly endless brainwashing and humiliation, he said in an interview, and was forced to study communist propaganda for hours every day and chant slogans giving thanks and wishing long life to President Xi Jinping.

“Those who disobeyed the rules, refused to be on duty, engaged in fights or were late for studies were placed in handcuffs and ankle cuffs for up to 12 hours,” he said. Further disobedience would result in waterboarding or long periods strapped in agony in a metal contraption known as a “tiger chair,” Samarkand said, a punishment he said he suffered.

Between several hundred thousand and more than 1 million Muslims have been detained in China’s mass “reeducation” camps in the restive province of Xinjiang, Adrian Zenz of the European School of Culture and Theology in Korntal, Germany, said in a report released Tuesday. Zenz is a leading authority on the current crackdown in Xinjiang.

In a region of 21 million people, including 11 million Muslims, the number of those he reports to be detained would be a significant proportion of the population, especially of young adult men.

“China’s pacification drive in Xinjiang is, more than likely, the country’s most intense campaign of coercive social re-engineering since the end of the Cultural Revolution,” Zenz wrote, referring to the chaos unleashed by Mao Zedong in the 1960s.

“The state’s proclaimed ‘war on terror’ in the region is increasingly turning into a war on religion, ethnic languages and other expressions of ethnic identity,” he wrote.

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KEYWORDS: china; coolness; enjoyablepost; funread; islam; jihad; muslim; muslims; uighur
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To: A_perfect_lady

Root formit to extend into eternal overtime.


41 posted on 05/27/2018 10:25:13 AM PDT by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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To: A_perfect_lady

I root for M.A.D., like they warned us about in the old days.


42 posted on 05/27/2018 10:27:38 AM PDT by txnativegop (The political left, Mankinds intellectual hemlock)
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To: PIF

That makes me feel much BETTER about muslim reeducation camp.


43 posted on 05/27/2018 10:27:46 AM PDT by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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To: FreedomPoster
I keep expecting to see more of those last actions with the Chinese presence in Africa.

Chinese are patient. Avoid conflict until a few million more young Chinese males have moved in. Meanwhile, establish caches of arms and ammo.

When it's time, all they have to do is seize a seaport and an airport, and hold them for a couple of days as reinforcements arrive from China. Once a firm beachhead is established in Africa, the Chinese forces can expand from there quickly, using their huge fleet of container ships to transport men and material over.

44 posted on 05/27/2018 10:30:42 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (Big governent is attractive to those who think that THEY will be in control of it.)
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To: Zhang Fei

China has a better understanding Islam than the Major European and American countries do.


45 posted on 05/27/2018 10:36:49 AM PDT by arthurus (lkh)
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To: Lumper20

No muslims. No islam in the US. Sharia and liberty cannot coexist. Look at what is happening in the UK. It is our fate unless we confront islam and stop pretending it is a religion protected by the 1st Amendment.


46 posted on 05/27/2018 10:39:33 AM PDT by Jacquerie
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To: MrEdd

Search “tiger chair”, click on Images, see various other methods in action.


47 posted on 05/27/2018 10:41:15 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: Kalamata

Converting, even successfully converting them to Communism does not change them much.


48 posted on 05/27/2018 10:42:41 AM PDT by arthurus (ljhgf)
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To: weston
The section of western China which borders Pakistan, Tajikistan, and the rest of the 'stans, is heavily Muslim. It used to be even more Muslim, but the Chinese have been importing lots of Han Chinese into the region.

The other part of the story: China is Forcing Uyghur Women To Marry Chinese Men:

The Chinese government is arranging forced marriages between Han Chinese males and Uyghur females in East Turkestan (Xinjiang). China is locking up all the Uyghur men in "re-education" concentration camps, the Uyghur women are then forced to marry the Chinese so their male relatives can be freed from the Nazi-like camps.

They are forced to abandon their religion and denounce their ethnic/religious traditions, they must also wear traditional Han Chinese clothes to show loyalty to the Han culture.

It will fix their Muslim problem within a generation or two.
49 posted on 05/27/2018 10:43:27 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (Big governent is attractive to those who think that THEY will be in control of it.)
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To: A_perfect_lady

Root for the muzzies, they’re like a mad dog that needs to be put down but the communists have always been the greater cultural and strategic threat.


50 posted on 05/27/2018 10:44:38 AM PDT by Raymann
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To: Raymann

"...root for the Muzzies..."


In my daily life I am not so concerned about Communists randomly entering the place where I get my coffee and detonating themselves.

51 posted on 05/27/2018 10:58:38 AM PDT by Blue Jays ( Rock hard ~ Ride free)
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To: Zhang Fei

That’s what happens when two murderous ideologies meet. That doesn’t mean this guy that was tortured was a murderer. His religion is the problem.


52 posted on 05/27/2018 11:02:40 AM PDT by Crucial
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To: PapaBear3625

Interesting. Thanks for the info.


53 posted on 05/27/2018 11:18:15 AM PDT by weston (As far as I'm concerned, it's Christ or nothing)
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To: Blue Jays

Right now my employers are Afganis
Very nice people
Pay me well and treat me nice
When the surface discusiokns of Islam come up I simply say having read the Quran and Hadith there’s several ways to interpret
They’re all going on the storybook version of mad mo
So far so good
Work is more important than such discussions
The owners dad Hashimi is a Very high up in Afghan guvmint
They do agree that Taliban are bad guys so that’s a start


54 posted on 05/27/2018 11:34:02 AM PDT by Truthoverpower (The guvmint you get is the Trump winning express !)
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To: Jacquerie

Agree 100%.


55 posted on 05/27/2018 11:54:40 AM PDT by Lumper20
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To: Blue Jays

And if America were to ever fall you can bet the invading army will be flying the hammer and sickle, not the crescent moon.


56 posted on 05/27/2018 11:55:12 AM PDT by Raymann
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To: A_perfect_lady

When Communists fight Muslims, I don’t know whom to root for.

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Lot like a fight between a tarantula and a scorpion.


57 posted on 05/27/2018 11:59:17 AM PDT by libstripper
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To: Blue Jays

I too have met sophisticated, well educated (Harvard, Cambridge etc.) and successful Muslims in the course of my work. Become friends with them and get a few drinks into them (hypocrisy on their part, I know), and you start hearing about how Jews are controlling the world, how they want to destroy the Arab world, how all white women are whores to be used and discarded. I ended ‘friendships’ with more than one of these sophisticates.


58 posted on 05/27/2018 12:23:48 PM PDT by ExpatCanuck
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To: Zhang Fei

Oh, he just so happened to inocently visit Kazahkstan...


59 posted on 05/27/2018 12:26:04 PM PDT by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security Whorocracy & hate:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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To: Zhang Fei

60 posted on 05/27/2018 12:43:07 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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