Desperate Divorces: Another CCP Crimes Against the Uyghurs

Cultural genocides are subtle. Piles of corpses are not amassed along the roads. Cultural genocides pursue the slow annihilation of a nation by canceling its future. The Uyghurs are a case in point. Since the 2017 offensive that issued the ultimate challenge to them, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has devised several methods to achieve its genocidal goal against the Uyghurs. This has resulted in a massive deportation of innocent people to “re-education” camps, and has also targeted their children who remain at home. One of the most heinous tactics against Uyghur children is in fact to make them “artificial orphans.” Their parents are not dead. They are inmates in detention and labor camps. Children, unwillingly left alone by their parents, are then “forcibly separated from them and placed in childcare institutions, or orphanages, and boarding schools.” Dilxat Raxit, member of Executive Committee of the World Uyghur Congress serving as its spokesperson, brings this sad and serious situation to the attention of “Bitter Winter.”
Many of these artificial orphans have been transferred to adoption institutions outside East Turkistan,” “pressured by a precise cultural and educational strategy devised by the CCP, they are prevented from speaking and learning their mother tongue. It is an ideological re-education.”
In fact, the CCP performs “family persecution.” If a wife is investigated and/or detained, so is her husband, and vice versa, for suspected “complicity” or “covering up”—a variation of the “guilt by association” principle. “As a result,” Raxit comments, “many Uyghur families have been destroyed and their members relocated in three different places. The parents have been detained separately or left home to undergo ‘educational review,’ and their underaged children have been ‘adopted’ by official institutions to be resettled who knows where. But by divorcing, Uyghur couples may give their children a different fate. In fact, in case a mother or a father is detained, the other parent [who, once divorced, would not be arrested following the arrest of the spouse] may remain at home taking real care of them. It is a desperate last resort… Unfortunately, though, I am sure that Uyghur children will not at the end really escape persecution. The CCP will devise new methods…”
To save their own children, Uyghurs increasingly destroy their own families before the CCP does it. It is a sad paradox that once more shows the cruelty of the CCP policies. And of course, the divorce stratagem goes against the religious persuasion and the traditional customs of Uyghurs, who believe in strong and stable families.
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