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Generational Dynamics Web Log for 31-Jul-2019
31-Jul-19 World View -- China claims Muslim Uighurs released from concentration camps

Web Log - July, 2019

31-Jul-19 World View -- China claims Muslim Uighurs released from concentration camps

From 'Re-education' to slave labor

by John J. Xenakis

This morning's key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com

China claims Muslim Uighurs released from concentration camps
From 'Re-education' to slave labor
Hitler's Force Labor System, 1939-1945
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China claims Muslim Uighurs released from concentration camps

Shohrat Zakir, center, just before making the statement that Uighurs have been released (AP)

Shohrat Zakir, center, just before making the statement that Uighurs have been released (AP)

A new bizarre announcement from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) claims that most of the Muslim Uighurs and Kazakhs that have been arrested and put into concentration camps ("re-education centers") have now been released.

Starting in 2016, reports were coming out of East Turkistan (Xinjiang Province) that tens or hundreds of thousands of Muslim Uighurs and Kazakhs were being arrested and put into concentration camps. At first, the CCP vehemently denied that these concentration camps even existed. But more and more satellite imagery was published showing the existence of huge concentration camps and crematoria. By 2019, the evidence collected from satellites and on the ground indicates that over one million Uighurs and Kazakhs have been locked up in these concentration camps.

With the overwhelming evidence piling up, the the CCP was forced last year to admit that they had locked up a million Uighurs and Kazakhs in "reeducation centers," but claimed that the Uighurs and Kazakhs were being locked up so that they could be "reeducated" and given new skills that they could use in Chinese society.

On Tuesday, Xinjiang Governor Shohrat Zakir made an announcement:

"Most of the graduates from the vocational training centers have been reintegrated into society, More than 90 percent of the graduates have found satisfactory jobs with good incomes. ...
Many of these training centres have become venues for short-term classes on farming skills, and some are offering short-term skills improvement courses for people before they take up their new jobs."

People in the West are scratching their heads wondering what this means. If there were hundreds of thousands of former prisoners suddenly walking free in the streets of Xinjiang province, then it would already have been noticed, and no announcement would be necessary. So if these hundreds of thousands of Uighurs and Kazakhs are no longer in the "reeducation centers," then where are they?

From 'Re-education' to slave labor

One possibility is that they've been sent to the crematoria, much like the "graduates" of Hitler's concentration camps. That may turn out to be true for a substantial number of them, but we may not know for a long time, just as we never found out about Hitler's crematoria until after the war.

Barry Sautman, an expert on ethnic politics in China at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, provides a different possible explanation:

"They may mean that such persons no longer reside within the centers. It does not mean that such persons have returned to the status quo ante, are no longer under close supervision, or work somewhere other than an enterprise connected to one of the centres."

This makes sense. If you have a million prisoners, then use them as slave labor on farms and in factories.

Hitler's Force Labor System, 1939-1945

That's what Hitler did, according to the project "Forced Labor 1939-1945" archive in Berlin:

"Nazi Germany created one of the largest forced labor systems in history: Over twenty million foreign civilian workers, concentration camp prisoners and prisoners of war from all of the occupied countries were required to perform forced labor in Germany in the course of the Second World War.
At the height of the so-called “Ausländereinsatz” (use of foreigners) in August 1944, six million civilians were forced to perform forced labor in the German Reich, most of them from Poland and the Soviet Union. Over one third were women, some of whom were abducted together with their children or gave birth to their children in the camps. In 1944, nearly two million prisoners of war were exploited to work in the German economy. From 1943, German industry also increasingly used concentration camp detainees as a source of forced labor."

So it seems likely that the CCP is using Uighurs and Kazakhs concentration camp detainees as forced labor.

Using these prisoners as forced laborers makes a lot of sense. But also, as I've described in my book, "War Between China and Japan," both Chiang Kai-Shek and Mao Zedong admired Adolf Hitler and his methods, and Xi Jinping is also copy Hitler's methods in illegally annexing the South China.

This story about "releasing" Uighurs and Kazakhs is just breaking today, so there's a lot we don't know. But as I keep pointing out, the CCP has adopted some of the stupidest policies in the history of the world since World War II, and using Uighurs and Kazakhs as slave labor would be consistent with that.

Those interested in understanding China today and in history should read my book, "World View: War Between China and Japan: Why America Must Be Prepared" (Generational Theory Book Series, Book 2) Paperback: 331 pages, with over 200 source references, $13.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/1732738637/

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