【Pigsty Exclusive】Xinjiang behind the Uyghur Human Rights Act: not an ethnic conflict, but a Communist Party political issue.

The recent passage of the Uyghur Human Rights Act in the United States also led to the controversial discussion of "July 5 incident", which happened the 10-year ago, the July 5, 2009 violence in Urumqi. Many people began to look back and express their understanding of the incident.

One of the most popular claims is that 7.5 began as the result of the long-time suppression which Han CCP officials had done to Uighur, but ended with the conflicts between two ethnic groups. Although this explanation is not entirely wrong, it is definitely the result of putting the cart before the horse. This kind of statement actually confirms the main problem is Ethnic conflict. It's wrong. 

Whoever has ever had this opinion doesn't stand firm to fight against CCp. Why? Because it inevitably leads to erroneous ideas, such as that the Uighurs were at fault in the first place, or that the Communist Party, bad as it is, is leading the Uighurs away from fatuous religious feudalism (supposed to be Muslim). These delusions are particularly evident among the indigenous Han Chinese in Xinjiang, most of whom are staunch supporters of the Communist Party.

The 7.5 Ürümqi riots were triggered by the 2008 events in Lhasa, Tibet, and the Beijing Olympics. After the Chinese Communist Party hosted the Beijing Olympics, Tibet's exiled Dalai Lama and Tibetan groups launched a campaign. They hoped that while the world's attention was focused on Beijing, it draws international attention to the fact that Tibetans, who under the control of Beijing, were seeking freedom. The content of the campaign is that Tibetans returned home on foot long, walked from all over China back to Tibet. These peaceful walkers were soon arrested by the CCP, and the situation became more and more serious, leading to a large-scale demonstration in Lhasa. To quell the protests, the Chinese Communist Party has begun a tougher crackdown on Tibetans, calling it an organized overseas campaign of violence and looting.

After the crackdown in Lhasa, the Chinese Communist Party realized that the local ethnic groups in Xinjiang and Tibet were different from the Han race in mainland China. In the past, when the former policy that advocating unity among 56 ethnic groups existed, Minorities were at least able to stay calm. Now, the ethnic unity theory is essentially oriented toward the Han people and became ostentation. Thus, ethnic groups in Xinjiang and Tibet must have resent to Beijing, which may lead to instability on the border. CCP sequentially thought of other ways to strengthen their ties with the Chinese mainland and slowly assimilate them.

Since 2008, the Communist Party has forcibly recruited young and middle-aged labor force in Xinjiang; set quotas to cities and counties ----forced young Uighurs to work in Guangdong. Uighurs, who were not yet 18 years old, were also sent to vocational schools in Guangdong and surrounding provinces to study in "Uighur classes." Inland Han people have so far seen the Uighurs the most in this period.

It was an unwise decision that forced Uighurs to work in Guangdong. The situation in Xinjiang now is: the Oil and gas resources, which are the backbone of Xinjiang's industries, are being taken directly by the Chinese Communist Party; the Uighurs have nothing to gain. The Uighurs mainly engaged in such high Cash crops as buying, selling, growing, and picking cotton in villages and towns. These industries have a high demand for labor and a large manpower gap. Xinjiang's population was not large, so the salaries of Uighurs were relatively high. Wages are higher in Xinjiang than in Henan, Anhui and Shandong provinces, many inland regions, where many Han migrants migrated to Xinjiang each year for temporary or permanent work. In this case, transferring these high-waged jobs to Han workers and forcing Uighurs to Guangdong factory caused a great conflict among Han and Uighur.

In June and July 2009, the so-called Shaoguan incident, the fuse of 7.5 violence, broke out. The overall background is that there is a huge conflict between young Uighur workers and factory management in Guangdong because the Guangdong factories are characterized by low wages, excessive overtime, harsh management, and a low human rights living environment. Most of the Han people come from worse workplaces and could tolerate this, but the Uighur workers were forced to come. Their working experience at home would have been much better than in Guangdong. Why should they put up with this? On the other hand, the Guangdong factory Han workers were also dissatisfied, many because of the parachute of Uighur workers, directly deprived them of jobs. The conflict between Han and Uygur is very fierce in this kind of factory.

What's the Shaoguan incident? In a toy factory, a female worker was scared away when she accidentally entered a male Uighur dormitory. She was rumored by the Han workers as being taken turns raped. Then a scuffle broke out inside the factory, then, video clips of hundreds of people fighting each other circulated on the Internet. These videos were prevalent among both Uighurs and the Han people in Guangdong. Both are, in essence, discontented with the policy of forced labor. The Uighurs thought that forcing young Uighurs to work in Guangdong is an unjustified political ruse. Uighurs were now being bullied outside their hometown, and that if the Communist Party had not forced them to go to Guangdong, would Uighurs die in a knife fight? Whereas the argument of the Han workers in Guangdong was: "These Uighurs were stealing our jobs. We live in rooms containing 8 people, and they live in rooms containing 4 people. We are equal. Why should they be given a political privilege?"

The video and widespread discussion on the Internet has finally led to an initiative to launch a peaceful Uighur March in Urumqi on July 5. Three demands were that, firstly, the removal of the Communist Party's policy of Uighurs; Secondly, Wang Lequan, who is the Communist Party official in Xinjiang，should be held accountable; Finally, an independent investigation to find out the truth about Shaoguan were needed.

Since the Lhasa Incident, the CCP has been seeking for the most insidious and secretive way to completely suppress peaceful mass demonstrations under the concern of the international community. The 7.5 Demonstration in Urumqi was an opportunity. The CCP sent its thugs clad as usual protesters to engage in violence in the procession. Then, the CCP consequently cited the fact that the demonstration was violent, was with smashing, looting, burning to support the police interference, and rounded up the demonstrators. The July 5 incident is like the Hong Kong Yuen Long incident, essentially, was staged by the Chinese Communist Party itself for widening the scope of its convenient repression. They killed two birds with one stone because brutalizing the Han Chinese in Xinjiang aroused public indignation among Han people to support high coercion towards Uyghur. So, On July 6, the CCP also sent in scores of Han Chinese soldiers, dressed in civilian garb and armed with uniformly distributed sticks, to kill Uighurs. Since that, the CCP built the most severe White Terror in Urumqi, lasting for one month.

After the 7.5 incident broke out, first in Urumqi, then throughout all over Xinjiang, the entire region was automatically tightened the military control and implemented curfews. Even Kitchen knives were confiscated, and people were arrested at will. If the number of people walking side by side on the road reached three, they would be arrested on suspicion of unlawful assembly and violent demonstrations. It did not take long for the CCP to emphasize the Islamic nature of the Uighurs as an excuse since the United States also fought against this nature of terrorism. Thus, the CCP has rationalized its persecution of the Uighurs. In fact, there was no religious background of the 7.5 incident, and the Uighurs did not uphold the traditions of the Sharia.

In the years that followed, in an effort to legitimize the persecution of Uighurs, the CCP concocted false terror and coerced confessions, producing a crop of so-called terrorists and extremists who confessed to religious extremism. These useful methods also provoked many Uighurs, whose anti-communist intentions began to turn against the Han, because the party's strategy in Xinjiang was ethnic specialization. The CCP through relative preferential treatment of the Han (who were rarely sent to concentration camps, for example) implies that the CCP is on behalf of the Han race. The uighurs' anti-communism has naturally turned into anti-han sentiment. The CCP threw Uighur politics into disarray.

An insider told me: "In 2016, he was transferred to an agricultural bureau in southern Xinjiang as a supportive cadre. One fay, all the men, accompanied by security guards and an armed policeman, were on duty overnight. We set up a barricade on the street in front of the gate of a checkpoint. The leader of the squad is ordered to sign off and make sure everyone is on duty. Police cars and local cadres usually patrol throughout the night. The purpose is to intimidate those who go out at night and to enforce the curfew. When Uighurs pass by, they stop them, ask them for registration, question them, and most of them were sent to the police station for detention and interrogation. When Han Chinese passes by, they were scolded that go back home immediately. The impressed once was when several Chinese tourists who didn't know the curfew policy got drunk and tried to pass the barricades, one police fired warning shots to the sky. At that moment, my legs went limp on the side. This situation would never happen anywhere except in Xinjiang and Tibet. I can imagine what it would have been like if it was Uighurs, and the chances of a direct hit were very high."

Besides, the Communist Party in Xinjiang soon discovered that fake violence and terror benefited local revenue. They could create small outbreaks of violence and explosions in the uninhabited wilderness. They confound right and wrong, claiming peasants who demand justice before government building as gathering to attack government departments. So, the local government has intensified persecution and using this as an excuse, maintaining stability, demand more funds from Beijing, and take advantage of Beijing's wish which is grand unification. Since 2016, the re-education camps have gradually extended, costing millions of RMB per camp and checkpoint. This is another way for the Communist Party of Xinjiang to amass money and further blackmail Beijing.

However, keeping hemorrhaging money in this way is not sustainable for Beijing. Especially in recent years, the overall economy of the Communist Party of China has not been very good. It began to disperse pressure to provinces and engage in counterpart aid to Xinjiang by sacrificing their money and population re-settling to Xinjiang. When the economy deteriorated further last year, and no rich province had the rest money to aid Xinjiang, the CCP of Xinjiang had no choice but to set up slave factories inside and outside the camps, forcing the detained Uighurs to earn money for the camps daily costs. Some who had no economic potential to bring in the capital began to half-open camps, allowing slaves to eat, sleep at home, but attend brainwashed political course full time in camps every day. Thus, the CCP of Xinjiang reduces the daily expenditure of the camps.

In addition to the overt persecution represented by the concentration camps, other forms of persecution by the CCP included forced intermarriage still exits. If male Han Chinese wanted to intermarry with female Uighurs, the latter probably could not refuse. Otherwise, they would be sent to the camps as having extremist ideas; Men are forbidden to dye their hair, or else they are sent to concentration camps to correct their Chinese identity that Chinese should have black eyes and yellow skin; Schools are closed, and Uyghur teaching is abolished, all of which are changed to Chinese; Unemployed teachers are sent to checkpoints to be auxiliary police officers; All shops, in some places, even private living rooms and courtyards, high-priced cameras from the party-appointed businesses are installed to monitor everyone's movements from all directions; Only Uighurs with "green cards" can go out, it is impossible to travel across cities without this card, which is equivalent to a good citizen's certificate; All Uighur entertainment venues, including dinner night markets, nightclubs, discos and Internet cafes, have been canceled because these crowd gathering areas will lead to violence and terror. In effect, it adds an extra layer of security to the curfew; Uighurs are required to report to a nearby police station and get a permit to stay in any hotel; any Uighur can be arrested at any time, no one can question the Police and only to await for being called; Uighurs abroad have been forced to espionage some overseas pro-democracy demonstrations, taking advantage of identity to collect protesters' information by taking photos of the event and pass them to the CCP. Uigurs probably cannot reject because the CCP threatens to kill their family members at home; For rich Uighurs, the CCP imposes crimes on them, confiscating their fortune inland to make up the deficit of Stabilisation funds.

The Communist Party, the vicious organization with enormous abuses against human rights, not to mention Uighurs, has turned Xinjiang into a testing ground for practicing persecution methods. Face recognition, security programs, emergency Internet disconnections for releasing fake messages, setting closed zones, the confiscation of passports for certain groups of people, requiring people to swear loyalty, these methods are gaining popularity across China. ALL methods above have been tested and refined in Xinjiang for several years, and then popularized in other provinces. From 2020, Beijing reportedly will fully grant administrative law enforcement powers to the city's street offices. Such primary office actually is already empowered to use violence or to collaborate with the Police at any time. But now it hasn't been 2020. The system was fully implemented in Xinjiang in 2017. Now it's used widely by Beijing.

Why do these policies of reform or persecution can be carried out in Xinjiang? In addition to the actual military control in Xinjiang, there is also a whitewashed layer of law: Xinjiang is superficially an autonomous region, and the autonomous region has the right to enact some rules and regulations that suit the local people's situation without the central grant. The limited legislative powers initially reserved 70 years ago as a form of national autonomy are now being used as a legal interpretation of the communist party's methods of persecution. Therefore, the slogan of the current Hong Kong people's March, "Xinjiang today, Hong Kong Tomorrow," is not an exaggeration at all. Compared with mainland China, Xinjiang is more like an independent satellite state with communism of the CCP, to carry out a plan of purgatory. Practicing inhuman torture and mental controlling methods here are preparation for communizing other places. Compared with Xinjiang, North Korea is relatively much better.

In the past ten years in Xinjiang, from the 7.5 till present, this is roughly the case. In short, the Xinjiang issue should not be treated as a so-called religious issue, an extremist issue, or an issue of ethnic antagonism. The culprit has always been the CCP.  

Xinjiang located in a remote area and has a unique ethnic situation. Firstly, the CCP has long firmly controlled media so that the minds of the Han people. Secondly, due to the political indoctrination of communism in the recent decade, the local people of Xinjiang, whatever their ethnic identity is, have believed the main problem is ethnic contradictions. Their narratives are all in this direction.

Anti-communist thinking is the only way to see the essence of issues of areas under the control of the CCP. 

1. Do not label religious and ethnic groups as biased.

2. Do not believe any article or explanation that is not anti-communist. 

3. Anyone who tries to turn the points to religion or terrorism, or Uyghur attacked the Han race at first, is trying to confuse you.

"When the United States passed the Uighur Human Rights Act, many Han people feel unfair. They think Uighurs were terrorists because of their religion, and the Communist Party's crackdown was justified.

 Anyone who thinks that way should wonder why the United States didn't enact the Han Chinese Human Rights Act since the Han are the most persecuted ethnic group by the CCP. Han race has more casualty and a lower threshold to be persecuted. For example, a decent white-collar worker who demands salaries from Huawei can be jailed for a year. Because many of us (the insider is a half Uighur and half Han race) don't express the right attitude against communist ideology. We justify the persecution of the CCP, so how we can gain the support of the world's human rights organization. The only mentality we should have is sympathy for the Uighurs, who under the most onslaught of evil. They are a much more pathetic version of us, with less fortunate."

 -- an anonymous Uyghur insider of Pigsty Purification