Footage Of Handcuffed & Blindfolded Uighurs Loaded Onto Train

Chinese Ambassador 

Struggles To Explain 

Shocking Footage Of 

Handcuffed & Blindfolded 

Uighurs Loaded Onto Train

Zero Hedge,
20 July, 2020


During a Sunday morning BBC news program, China’s ambassador to the UK Liu Xiaoming was in a rare segment asked point blank about viral footage which purports to show a terrifying scene from Xinjiang province of Muslim minority Uighurs being handcuffed and loaded onto train cars. 

While the footage, which appears to have been secretly caught via drone, appears to be a year old or more, it resurfaced in recent weeks, gaining millions of views and reigniting allegations of Uighur people being mass shipped to communist 'reeducation' camps and sprawling detention centers. 

During the tenses Andrew Marr Show segment, Liu described Xinjiang simply as “the most beautiful place.”

Showing the shocking footage which many observers said echoes Jews being mass loaded onto cattle cars during the Holocaust to be taken to their deaths, Marr pressed the Chinese ambassador with:

“Can I ask you why people are kneeling, blindfolded and shaven, and being led to trains in modern China? What is going on there?” 

To which Liu replied: “I do not know where you get this video tape. Sometimes you have a transfer of prisoners, in any country.” And Liu then questioned the authenticity and location of the video: “I do not know, where did you get this video clip?” 

 

Marr then said Western intelligence agencies and Australian experts have backed or 'verified' the clip, though this remains uncertain, to which the ambassador said tersely:

“The so-called ‘western intelligence’ keep making false accusations against China.”

He added: “They say ’one million Uighur has been persecuted, do you know how many population Xinjiang has? Forty years ago it was four or five million, now it is 11m people.”

And addressing widespread, persistent accusations of ongoing ethno-religious cleansing of Chinese Muslims in the provice, Liu said: “People say we have ethnic cleansing, but the population has doubled in forty years.” 

Marr promptly rebutted: “According to your own local government statistics, the population growth in Uighur jurisdictions in that area has fallen by 84% between 2015 and 2018.” Liu responded: “That’s not right. I gave you the official figure as a Chinese ambassador. This is a very authoritative figure. 

The two also sparred over sanctions. “If the UK goes that far to impose sanctions on any individuals in China, China will certainly make a resolute response to it,” the Chinese ambassador said. “You have seen what happened between China (and) the United States. They sanctioned Chinese officials, we sanctioned their senators, their officials. I do not want to see this tit-for-tat between China-US happen in China-UK relations,” he added.

And then this biting line: 

“I think the UK should have its own independent foreign policy rather than dance to the tune of the Americans like what happened to Huawei.”

The degree to which this video is or can be verified by US intelligence will be interesting. It could be invoked when potential further human rights related sanctions are rolled out, given the escalating tit-for-tat between Beijing and the Trump administration

British coverage comes with the usual degree of hypocrisy and double standards.

Confirmed here on Wikipedia

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarceration_rate#United_States

UK may end extradition to Hong Kong as tensions rise with China - BBC News

Unrest in Xinjiang, China

Unrest in China as 70,000-Strong Police Force Battles Protesters in Xinjiang

Over 70,000 troops have been deployed to put down riots and civil unrest in China, with very little notice from the local or international media

Intellihub,

5 July, 2013

Over the years, civil unrest and clashes with police are becoming more of a part of everyday life in China, despite the lack of media attention to these events

To actually get people to conform to such a brutal and oppressive lifestyle the regime requires very complicated propaganda, and even use giant firewalls to block entire sections of the internet from people within their borders.

Many times the uprisings in China are spread out and disconnected, springing from different struggles and involving different groups of people.  This particular conflict is still shrouded in mystery, some sources online are indicating that this is a popular uprising, while the media is reporting that “Muslim extremists” are responsible for the riots.

According to Want China Times:

Beijing has dispatched top law enforcement official Meng Jianzhu, secretary of the Central Politics and Law Commission, to the regional capital of Urumqi. An anti-terrorism police force of around 70,000 — comprising more than a dozen brigades — has already been set up to ensure that the 24-hour patrols promised by Beijing can be fulfilled.

Every prefecture-level city, autonomous prefecture or region in Xinjiang also has an armed police detachment, with Urumqi having as many as four. The People’s Liberation Army reportedly also has more than 10,000 troops stationed in the region.  Meanwhile, Chinese media have accused the United States of double standards for classifying the riot as “ethnic” or “religious” violence. The Communist Party mouthpiece People’s Daily insisted in an article on Sunday that the incident was strictly an act of terrorism carried out by extremists who ought to be the enemy of every Chinese citizen 

How these people lost their lives or how the clashes truly began are still unknown because of so many conflicting reports, but we will be paying close attention to this story and bring more information as it becomes available

27 killed in Xinjiang, China

Riots Erupt in China's Restive Xinjiang Province

via You Tube

BEIJING — Riots in China's ethnically divided Xinjiang region on Wednesday left 27 people dead, according to state media which said police opened fire on "knife-wielding mobs".

It was the latest spasm of violence to hit the troubled western region, which is about twice the size of Turkey and is home to around 10 million members of the mostly Muslim Uighur ethnic minority.

Police shot at "mobs" who had attacked police stations, a local government building and a construction site, the Xinhua news agency said, citing local officials.

"Seventeen people had been killed... before police opened fire and shot dead 10 rioters," it said. The mobs were also "stabbing at people and setting fire to police cars", the report said.

Nine police or security guards and eight civilians were killed before police opened fire, the report said, adding that three other people were taken to hospital with injuries.

The clashes occurred early Wednesday in the Lukqun township of Shanshan County, Xinhua said, about 100 kilometres (60 miles) from the desert city of Turpan and about 250 kilometres from the regional capital Urumqi.

The reason for the violence was not immediately clear, and police in Turpan refused to comment when contacted by AFP.

Many of Xinjiang's Uighur community complain of religious and cultural repression by Chinese authorities, and the region is regularly hit by unrest.

Chinese authorities have often blamed clashes in the region on "terrorists", but initial state-media reports did not mention terrorism.

A verified Twitter account run by state-broadcaster CCTV called the violence a "riot", saying it was correcting an earlier message which described it as an "insurgent attack".

Dilshat Rexit, a spokesman for the World Uyghur Congress, an exile group branded by Beijing as "separatist", said "continued repression and provocation is the cause of conflict". His comment came in a statement sent to AFP after news of the violence emerged.

China reported that 21 people died in clashes between police and locals in the region in April, which the government said were caused by "terrorists", and a court in Xinjiang recently jailed nine people for "religious extremism".

China said clashes in 2011 that killed 19 were organised by terrorists who trained in Pakistan and were part of a separatist movement seeking an independent state in Xinjiang.

Uighur rights groups have dismissed the claims of terrorism, citing economic inequality and religious repression as causes of unrest.

The region's worst ethnic violence in recent years occurred in July 2009, when riots involving Uighurs and settlers from China's Han ethnic majority killed around 200 people in Urumqi.

Those clashes led to a major security push in the region, which rights groups have said resulted in intense monitoring of Uighurs by security forces.

China’s Central Asia Problem - Gladio B

Xinjiang-The Main Target for Destabilization in China

Christoph Germann

Boiling Frogs,

30 May, 2013

Since 1990, 34 new countries have been created with South Sudan’s addition in 2011 being the latest but certainly not the last.

Washington’s regime change hit list is almost endless. One commonly used practice is to destabilize the target country and to carve out territories. Afterwards a puppet government is installed and a permanent U.S. military presence established. Lo and behold, we can welcome a new subordinate country completely led by the United States. The “Mafia State” Kosovo is a prime example of this modus operandi and it was so successful in Yugoslavia that it is again being implemented in China:

Uyghur leader gives Chinese diplomats a history lesson at UN

The meeting at the UN in which Chinese representatives met with representatives from Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia and Tibet was marked by the diplomatically discourteous actions of the Chinese representatives and Rebiya Kadeer’s speech.

A Chinese diplomat stated that no states named East Turkestan, Inner Mongolia and Tibet existed in China, and that they were historically Chinese territory.

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The Chinese are obviously far from pleased and to most people East Turkestan is probably better known as China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.

The infamous International Crisis Group (ICG) explains why Xinjiang has become the main target for destabilization in China: 

“Energy, precious metals, and other natural resources flow into China from the region. Investment flows the other way, as China builds pipelines, power lines and transport networks linking Central Asia to its north-western province, the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region.

Beijing’s primary concern is the security and development of its Xinjiang Autonomous Region, which shares 2,800km of borders with Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan.”

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For more information about the ICG I encourage you to read Tony Cartalucci’s excellent report about the think-tanks, which are used by corporate-financier interests to create, promote, publish, and execute their policy:

Naming Names: Your Real Government

While the International Crisis Group (ICG) claims to be “committed to preventing and resolving deadly conflict,” the reality is that they are committed to offering solutions crafted well in advance to problems they themselves have created in order to perpetuate their own corporate agenda.

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So if the International Crisis Group alleges that China has a “Central Asia Problem”, you can be sure that there will be problem and most likely it will be a terrorism problem [emphasis mine]:

“There is a risk that Central Asian jihadis currently fighting beside the Taliban may take their struggle back home after 2014. This would pose major difficulties for both Central Asia and China. Economic intervention alone might not suffice.

The planned 2014 withdrawal of U.S. and NATO troops from Afghanistan is of special concern: Chinese separatist organisations have trained in Afghanistan as well as Pakistan, and stability – or lack thereof – will have, Beijing feels, direct bearing on Islamist insurgency in China’s border areas.”

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One of the ICG’s founders is Uber-Neocon Morton Abramowitz who also happens to be Fethullah Gülen’s main CIA handler. Let’s remember what Sibel Edmonds had to say in her deposition 2009 about Gülen’s network and how it is being used in Central Asia [emphasis mine]:

“He has since established more than 300 madrasahs in Central Asia and what he calls universities that have a front that is called Moderate Islam, but he is closely involved in training mujahideen-like militia Islam who are brought from Pakistan and Afghanistan into Central Asia where his madrasahs operate, and his organization’s network is estimated to be around $25 billion.

He has opened several Islamic universities in the United States. As I said it’s being promoted under Moderate Islam. It is supported by certain U.S. authorities here because of the operations in Central Asia, but what they have been doing since late 1990s is actually radical Islam and militizing (phonetic) these very, very young, from the age 14, 15, by commandoes they use, and this is bothcommandoes from Turkish military, commandoes from Pakistani ISI in Central Asia and Azerbaijan, and after that they bring them to Turkey, and from Turkey they send them through Europe, to European and elsewhere.”

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The involvement of NATO member Turkey and close NATO ally Azerbaijan is not surprising since they are simultaneously assisting the U.S. to create and sustainthe threat of Chechen terrorism. Of course there is also the Pakistani ISI which is closely cooperating with the CIA and plays a central role in these operations ever since Operation Cyclone.

Part of the same Gladio B network is the man chosen by Washington to become the new puppet leader once East Turkestan is “liberated”. Meet Anwar Yusuf Turani:

He is the first person to start the East Turkistan independence movement in the United States. In 2004, Turani set up the “East Turkistan Government in Exile” (ETGIE) and was elected Prime Minister.^[1][2]

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Turani is now the Prime Minister of a nonexistent country after his “election” in the U.S. State Department in 2004. That sounds legit but the question is why he was picked by the United States to head the East Turkestan Government in Exile. His presence in Sibel Edmonds’ State Secrets Privilege Gallery should give us a clue. Anwar Yusuf Turani was and probably still is involved in operations in China’s Xinjiang region and was therefore one target of the FBI’s ‘Gladio B’ counterintelligence investigation.

Xinjiang borders among others Afghanistan, Pakistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. The increasing activity of the medieval petro-monarchies Qatar and Saudi Arabia in Tajikistan and in Kyrgyzstan is a particularly worrying development for China, as well as USAID’s “rehabilitation” of passport offices in Osh Province.

Being aware of the imminent danger, the Chinese authorities seek to take the appropriate measures [emphasis mine]:

Tajikistan, China hold consultations on regional security

The sides discussed issues of fight against terrorism, problems of regional security and prospects of situation development in Central Asian region after anti-terrorist coalition’s troops withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2014. Importance of bilateral cooperation strengthening in fight against terrorism, separatism and extremism was highlighted.

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Karimova, In Beijing, Discusses China-Uzbekistan Ties

Karimova paid special attention to the potential threats and challenges, which Uzbekistan and China will face in the near future. Among them, the great risk of Afghanistan turning into a component of Islamist expansionism coming from North Africa and the Middle East, geopolitical processes unfolding in the Asia-Pacific region, the persistent effect of the global financial-economic problems, clashes of different value systems…

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China holds training course for border inspectors

“The disarmament in the border areas between China and the four countries, namely Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia and Tajikistan, strengthens the mutual trust and cooperation among the militaries, maintains the peace and stability of the areas along the 7,000-odd-kilometer-long border in northern China and is beneficial to the normal development of the friendly relations among the five countries,” said Luo Yongbin, deputy director of the Department of Boundary and Ocean Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China (PRC), on May 27, 2013 during the three-day-long training course for the border disarmament inspectors from China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia and Tajikistan.

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Russia, China to Hold Antiterror Drills in August

Russia and China will conduct joint antiterrorism exercises in Russia’s Urals region in the first two weeks of August, a spokesman for the Central Military District said.

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Yu tours Xinjiang, stresses curbing extremism, terrorism

During his tour of Xinjiang, China’s top political advisor stressed containing the growth of religious extremist elements and maintaining a high intensity in the fight against terrorist activities.

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China knows that the fight against NATO/GCC-sponsored terror will be intense but is determined to maintain social stability and to prevent further terror attacks:

Xinjiang terror spree kills 21

Terrorists killed 15 police officers and community workers, among whom 10 were Uyghur, three were Han and two were Mongolian. Police fought back, killing six terrorists and arresting eight, with the attack now under full investigation.

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Xinjiang terror group smashed, say police

Mainland police say they have broken up a terrorist group linked to a clash with the authorities in Xinjiang last week in which 21 people died.

The group’s members watched violent jihadi videos, organised “underground Koran classes” and had spread extreme religious teachings since September, the government notice said. It said they had started training for attacks in December and were planning a “major attack” in Kashgar this summer.

Christoph Germann - BFP Contributing Author & Analyst
Christoph Germann is an independent analyst and researcher based in Germany, where he is currently studying political science. His work focuses on the New Great Game in Central Asia and the Caucasus region. You can visit his website here

Destabilisation by US

Washington Promotes Islamism and Political Destabilization in Xinjiang Uygur, China’s Oil and Gas Rich Region

Vladislav Gulevich

Global Reseach,

30 March, 2013

The Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region is the western edge of China (Xinjiang means new frontier in Chinese).

It borders on Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Mongolia and the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir. 9 million Uyghurs (Sunni Muslims) make up 45% of the total population of the Region. From time to time protests hit the streets calling for independence from China. The USA has a role to play here, it defends the separatists on international scene. The Uygur culture or rights don’t mean anything for Washington, but the Region enjoys strategically important geographic position being situated in the heart of Eurasia which is viewed as an area of its vital interests by the United States.

For the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union the Xinjiang Uygur Region was an area where its interests conflicted with Great Britain. The region provided access to India. Today there is a conflict of interests with the United States, which finds it important strategically to deny Russia and China an access the Indian Ocean.

Establishing control over the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region means getting a springboard for US penetration into the heartland of Eurasia. For instance, the geographic position of Kazakhstan makes it kind of a buffer zone against the Islamic radicalism coming from Afghanistan. Crossing the Kazakh territory, radicals would get to Russia (Kazakhstan borders on Astrakhan, Chelyabinsk, Saratov, Volgograd, Novosibirsk, Omsk and Tyumen regions of the Russian Federation). Muslim Bashkiria and Tatarstan are in the vicinity.

While the USSR contained the spread of Islamic extremism, having tightly closed the southern border, Kazakhstan and Western Siberia remained parts of the Soviet Union. It has all changed by now. The US intervention into Afghanistan has exacerbated the situation near the southern part of Russia. In case the US gets a foothold in the Xinjiang Uygur Region, the things will exponentially worsen, there are many Uyghurs living in Central Asia (250000 in Kazakhstan, 60000 in Kyrgyzstan, 50000 in Uzbekistan etc).

The Region is rich in oil and gas, as well as rare-earth metals. There are 52 minerals extracted there. It’s an important trade and transportation hub, an economic center of western China. The Chinese commodities cross its territory to get transported to the Pakistani port of Karachi and then to South Asia. Pakistan and China are strategic allies, the destabilization of Xinjiang would hinder the flow of goods from Islamabad to Beijing. The Chinese law enforcement agencies report there are people on the wanted list in Pakistan among the dead Uyghur separatists. At that Beijing does its best to have good relations with Islamabad (1).

There is a major telecommunications project under construction – the Trans-Asia-Europe Fiber Optic Line, which is to connect Shanghai, China and Frankfurt, Germany passing through the Region (2). Oil and gas flows from the Caspian will cross it on the way to the Asia-Pacific. The Region borders on Tibet. The hue and cry raised by Washington from time to time over the human rights violations in Tibet is a trick the US propaganda machine resorts to while waging an information war against China.

The US goes to any length to support the Uygur separatists abroad, for instance the World Uyghur Congress headed by Rabiya Kadir , one of the richest Chinese in the world… She meets US congressmen and even has had a meeting with George Bush. She is a hyped symbol of Uyghur resistance. The 10 Conditions of Love movie devoted to her was shot in 2009. Despite the protests from Beijing, it was included into the Melbourne festival’s program.

The World Uyghur Congress cooperates with the so-called Tibetan government in exile and has branches in many countries, even in Australia. It should be noted that Anglo-Saxon powers (the United States of America, Great Britain, New Zealand and Australia) have been including China into their agenda for a number of years, some time ago Australia became a host country to US Marine Corps unit.

Washington predominantly uses three issues to exert pressure on China: Taiwan, Tibet and Xinjiang, where separatist protests are on the rise. That’s why the United States is well disposed towards the growth of Uyghur nationalism, using every opportunity to spur its radicalization…

Notes

1) Jacob Zenn. Insurgency in Xinjiang Complicates Chinese-Pakistani Relations.