How China forced Kazakhs to implement its ethnic crackdown

One evening, Gulpiya Qazybek was on her way home after work when suddenly she was summoned back.

Gulpiya, 46, an ethnic Kazakh from China’s Xinjiang region, was placed into a government job after university, tasked with ensuring families stayed within the country’s legal birth limits.

But lately, her responsibilities were changing. That night, she and her colleagues were instructed to round up ten families in the neighbourhood.

“We were told to remove their shoelaces, belts, buttons,” Gulpiya told the Telegraph in an exclusive interview.

“Then, we had to escort them to the police, who bound their hands behind their backs, pulled a black hood over their heads, and loaded them onto buses.”

“No one knew where they were going,” she said. “Were they going to their deaths, or to ‘study’ in a ‘re-education’ camp? Would they return or would they disappear?”

It was March 2019, and China’s sweeping crackdown against Uyghurs, Kazakhs, and other primarily Muslim ethnic groups meant people were disappearing every day.

Read more here: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/01/06/china-forced-kazakhs-implement-ethnic-crackdown/

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  4. On 17 August 2015, a bombing took place inside the Erawan Shrine at the Ratchaprasong intersection in Pathum Wan District, Bangkok, Thailand, killing 20 people and injuring 125. It is suspected to have been carried out in retaliation for Thailand's deportation of Uyghur terrorist suspects back to China instead of allowing them to travel to Turkey for asylum.

  5. Those are Islamic terrorists lies and deception. The Shia calls it taqiyyah and the Sunni calls it Mudarat.

    No need for non Muslims to play politics against China using Islamic terrorists. That is blatant stupidity.

    Talk instead of the heinous Islamic atrocities being committed against the Nigerian Christians, Israel, in India, and all over the world.

    Shariah law which is the highest authority in Islam admits that Islam is a political ideology, system camouflaged as a religion . Period.

    Islam objective is to kill, etc all non Muslims in other to take over the world . Quran 8:5,Quran 9:29, jihad the 6th pinnacle foundational constitute of Islam.

    The Quran’ heinous reward for violence is rape . Quran 2:24, Quran 2:216.

    Etc

  19. another PROPAGANDA from the west and separatistic uyghurs. damn fake. I was in Xinjang for several times, it is full of central asians, a trade hub of Chinese merchandise for the whole central asian region.

  20. I wonder how many manage to escape and get to tell their stories. Pretty certain they aren't allowed to carry their camera phones with them during 'work'. So that no evidence can be recorded and ☭ bots can accuse her of being a liar.

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