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Will all the billion-dollar businesses, media companies, sports leagues, and investors who wag their fingers at America while remaining suspiciously silent about Chinese atrocities finally find their voice?
Or will history remember them the same way we remember the disgraced NY Times Stalin apologist Walter Duranty who aided and abetted Stalin’s genocidal starvation of millions of Ukrainians in the Holodomor?
They all had a chance to speak up for Hong Kong before China robbed them of the Democratic freedoms that were (allegedly) protected under law. But they chose silence.
Let’s see if this damning leaked data about the Uygur genocide is enough to awaken their conscience?
The cache reveals, in unprecedented detail, China’s use of “re-education” camps and formal prisons as two separate but related systems of mass detention for Uyghurs – and seriously calls into question its well-honed public narrative about both.
The government’s claim that the re-education camps built across Xinjiang since 2017 are nothing more than “schools” is contradicted by internal police instructions, guarding rosters and the never-before-seen images of detainees.
And its widespread use of terrorism charges, under which many thousands more have been swept into formal prisons, is exposed as a pretext for a parallel method of internment, with police spreadsheets full of arbitrary, draconian sentences.
The documents provide some of the strongest evidence to date for a policy targeting almost any expression of Uyghur identity, culture or Islamic faith – and of a chain of command running all the way up to the Chinese leader, Xi Jinping. — BBC
Other countries have already reacted to the evidence.
The U.K. and Germany condemned China and called for investigations after leaked documents revealed more details of China’s ongoing genocide against Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang on Tuesday.
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has long claimed its “re-education camps” are voluntary and work only to stamp out extremism, but the leaked documents and photos show the camps are far from voluntary. The text of one 2017 speech from a high-level CCP official revealed a shoot-to-kill order for anyone attempting escape, according to a public database of the documents published by the Victims of Communist Memorial Foundation (VOC).
“If we all fulfill our duty, Xinjiang will be stabilized,” former Xinjiang secretary Chen Quanguo said in a 2017 speech, according to a translated copy provided by VOC. “If they run, just kill them. There will be no problem, because we have already authorized this a long time ago,” –FoxNews
Times of India explains the problem in terms so clear even the left could understand it. The only thing missing is their favorite catchphrase, ‘carceral system’.
Nearly one in 25 people in a county in the Uyghur heartland of China has been sentenced to prison on terrorism-related charges, in what is the highest known imprisonment rate in the world, an Associated Press review of leaked data shows. A list obtained and partially verified by the AP cites the names of more than 10,000 Uyghurs sent to prison in just Konasheher county alone, one of dozens in southern Xinjiang. –TimesOfIndia
The Democrats love to champion ‘separated families’, right? What if those separated families are being put into forced labor?
UK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said:
Today, further shocking details of China’s human rights violations in Xinjiang have emerged, which add to the already extensive body of evidence from Chinese government documents, first-hand testimony, satellite imagery and visits by our own diplomats to the region.
New evidence shows the extraordinary scale of China’s targeting of Uyghur Muslims and other ethnic minorities, including forced labour, severe restrictions on freedom of religion, the separation of parents from their children, forced birth control, and mass incarceration. –Gov UK
Related:
Her son didn’t smoke or drink, so he must have been a religious terrorist. And as his mother, she is also guilty. https://t.co/8T8TqKRKPK pic.twitter.com/zo1lfqEDLx
— Xi Bridget Maquisard (@Bridgetdonegal1) May 24, 2022
But can we really count on Democrats to do anything about it when they wouldn’t even take Swalwell off of the Intelligence Committee after his relationship with a Chinese honeypot spy came to light?
Probably not.
After all, why else would China have willingly paid 10% for the Big Guy?
Psalms of War: Prayers That Literally Kick Ass is a collection, from the book of Psalms, regarding how David rolled in prayer. I bet you haven’t heard these read, prayed, or sung in church against our formidable enemies — and therein lies the Church’s problem. We’re not using the spiritual weapons God gave us to waylay the powers of darkness. It might be time to dust them off and offer ‘em up if you’re truly concerned about the state of Christ’s Church and of our nation.
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This is a great gift for the prayer warriors. Real. Raw. Relevant.
