Abstract
Since 2016 the mistreatment of Uyghurs, a Turkic Muslim minority living in their homeland in northwest China, by the People's Republic of China has been taken to extreme levels. Uyghurs now are clearly victims of genocidal policies through internment of all types. The total internment of Uyghurs involves physical, psychological and virtual internments. In this article, I discuss the issue in three parts, namely internment camps for Uyghurs, urban internment and virtual internment. While all of them have both physical and psychological aspects, the last two are based on an Orwelian use of surveillance technologies for the purpose of large-scale persecution and suppression of Uyghurs with the intention of achieving a China with one homogenous culture. The total internment which is currently being carried out has two main motives: Islamophobia and the crucial geo-strategical position of the Uyghur homeland.
Highlights
Since 2016 the mistreatment of Uyghurs, a Turkic Muslim minority living in their homeland in northwest China, by the People’s Republic of China has been taken to extreme levels
Businessman Yu Ming, who was imprisoned for 12 years and tortured nearly to death in labor camps in China for his beliefs in Falun Gong, said that from the reports of what has been happening in the “re-education camps” in Uyghur Region, he could tell that the Chinese state is employing the same methods it has been using against Falun Gong followers to force them to give up their faith
We find out that Chinese authorities in the Uyghur Region installed QR codes on many Uyghur homes in order to get instant access to the personal details of people living there (Embury-Dennis, 2018)
Summary
ISLAMOPHOBIA STUDIES JOURNAL VOLUME 5, NO. 2 Fall 2020, PP. 175–198. Published by: Islamophobia Research and Documentation Project, Center for Race and Gender, University of California, Berkeley. They are not the expression of the editorial or advisory board and staff. Either expressed or implied, is made of the accuracy of the material in this journal, and ISJ cannot accept any legal responsibility or liability for any errors or omissions that may be made. The reader must make his or her own evaluation of the accuracy and appropriateness of those materials
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