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100 Camp Testimonies: Arbitrary Incarceration, Forced Labor, Forced Abortion/Sterilization, and Forced Family Separation
In this important new contribution, researchers at the Uyghur Transitional Justice Database have compiled a representative set of 100 pertinent testimonies. These cover the wide range of abuses that Uyghurs in Xinjiang are subjected to, including internment, forced abortions and sterilizations, parents being separated from children, and forced labor. Vivid witness accounts of early camp-based reeducation efforts in 2014 and 2015 are set to be of great interest to scholars of mass internment in the region. The author contextualizes his work by discussing key witness accounts in the context of the breadth of scholarly research on various aspects of the atrocity. Readers of this important work will come away with a significantly deepened understanding of how Beijing’s brutal crackdown has touched the lives of individuals and families.
—Adrian Zenz
Director and Senior Fellow in China Studies at the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, Washington, D.C.; author of ‘Tibetanness’ Under Threat?
This unprecedented work—100 testimonies compiled by the Uyghur Transitional Justice Database—confirms what we have been telling the world for The Chinese Communist regime, a regime that wants to be seen as a global power, has carried out genocide and crimes against the Uyghurs and other Turkic peoples of East Turkistan. It is waging a war against religion, women’s reproductive rights, and humanity. Readers will understand what is at stake when they read through the horrendous accounts of atrocities in this book. As Uyghurs, we want world leaders, businesses, and the international community to strengthen their human rights obligations and commitments, and to show their condemnation of Uyghur genocide in their dealings with China despite future economic consequences that may ensue.
—Rishat Abbas PhD
President of Uyghur Academy
The foreword was written by James Millward, professor of history at Georgetown University and author of Eurasian A History of Xinjiang .
100 Camp Testimonies is a crucial historical document that contributes to the understanding of the tragic and opprobrious failure of the Chinese regime in East Turkistan (aka. Xinjiang). A representative set of 100 pertinent testimonies accounts for a range of human rights violations that Uyghurs and other Turkic peoples are subjected arbitrary incarceration, forced labor, forced abortion/sterilization, and forced family separation.
The Chinese regime’s relentless “reeducation” efforts started in late 2013, which gradually intensified and became more institutionalized, with the aim of ultimately achieving the goal of a homogeneous cultural and national identity known as Zhonghua (‘Chinese’) and erasing all ethnic characteristics that do not fit the Han Chinese ethnocentric mold. The regime’s dehumanizing extrajudicial mass internment drive, immensely facilitated by surveillance technology, has resulted in the largest-scale detention of ethnic and religious minorities since World War II, targeting the whole Turkic-Muslim population in East Turkistan.
—Adrian Zenz
Director and Senior Fellow in China Studies at the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, Washington, D.C.; author of ‘Tibetanness’ Under Threat?
This unprecedented work—100 testimonies compiled by the Uyghur Transitional Justice Database—confirms what we have been telling the world for The Chinese Communist regime, a regime that wants to be seen as a global power, has carried out genocide and crimes against the Uyghurs and other Turkic peoples of East Turkistan. It is waging a war against religion, women’s reproductive rights, and humanity. Readers will understand what is at stake when they read through the horrendous accounts of atrocities in this book. As Uyghurs, we want world leaders, businesses, and the international community to strengthen their human rights obligations and commitments, and to show their condemnation of Uyghur genocide in their dealings with China despite future economic consequences that may ensue.
—Rishat Abbas PhD
President of Uyghur Academy
The foreword was written by James Millward, professor of history at Georgetown University and author of Eurasian A History of Xinjiang .
100 Camp Testimonies is a crucial historical document that contributes to the understanding of the tragic and opprobrious failure of the Chinese regime in East Turkistan (aka. Xinjiang). A representative set of 100 pertinent testimonies accounts for a range of human rights violations that Uyghurs and other Turkic peoples are subjected arbitrary incarceration, forced labor, forced abortion/sterilization, and forced family separation.
The Chinese regime’s relentless “reeducation” efforts started in late 2013, which gradually intensified and became more institutionalized, with the aim of ultimately achieving the goal of a homogeneous cultural and national identity known as Zhonghua (‘Chinese’) and erasing all ethnic characteristics that do not fit the Han Chinese ethnocentric mold. The regime’s dehumanizing extrajudicial mass internment drive, immensely facilitated by surveillance technology, has resulted in the largest-scale detention of ethnic and religious minorities since World War II, targeting the whole Turkic-Muslim population in East Turkistan.
555 pages, Paperback
Published September 17, 2022
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