BBC reports testimony of escaped women
Victim women exposed “group rape, torture, forced contraception”
Chinese government “is not a confinement facility, but a vocational education and training center”
A building that is believed to be a reeducation camp for Muslim ethnic minorities in Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, photographed in 2019. [이미지출처=연합뉴스]
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[아시아경제 김봉주 기자] There are testimonies that mass sexual assault, torture, and forced contraception are being conducted against Uighur women imprisoned in a “retraining” detention facility in Xinjiang’s Uighur Autonomous Region in northwestern China.
On the 3rd, BBC News reported testimony from women who escaped the facility, women from other ethnic groups who worked there, and former security guards.
A 42-year-old Uighur woman, 42, who had been imprisoned in a camp in Xinjiang, China for nine months until 2018, and fled to the United States, said, “A lot of women were taken every night. They took them to a black room without surveillance cameras. They weren’t in police uniforms. He was dressed in a suit and always wore a mask even though there was no spread of Corona 19. Women were raped by those Chinese men, and I was also raped by 2-3 people three times.”
“The women returned to the room of 14 prisoners after being incarcerated by this. They couldn’t say anything. Everyone was going crazy. Their purpose was to destroy their souls.”
The woman referred to her being dragged out with a woman in her twenties who was in the same room for the first time after midnight in May 2018. “There was an electric rod in the room where I was dragged. Chinese men put electric shocks inside my genitals and tortured them. The young woman, who was taken to another room, kept screaming and said nothing after returning to the room. She went completely out of her mind and became a different person.”
He confessed, “I lived in constant fear of being repatriated to China,” and “I was afraid that if I revealed the abuse I had experienced and experienced and returned to Xinjiang, I was afraid that I would be punished more severely than before.”
A Kazakh woman who worked in the camp said, “For 18 months, what I did in the camp was to remove Uyghur women’s clothes, put handcuffs and hand them over to the Chinese public security or to Chinese men from outside, and wait in the next room to wash the women.” “Chinese men used to give me money after work when a young and pretty woman got caught. Organized rape was done,” he testified.
A building that is believed to be a reeducation camp for Muslim ethnic minorities in Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, photographed in 2019. [이미지출처=연합뉴스]
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One Uzbek woman who taught Chinese here said, “Rape was common. They picked out young women they wanted. Women were dragged out during class. Their screams also spread throughout the building. Chinese public security rape group rape. Not only that, they also electrocuted women,” he said.
“I witnessed a gang rape of a woman between the ages of 20 and 21 in front of about 100 other inmates. This young woman shouted for help. It was terrible. The guards clenched their fists or closed their eyes at the sight. They pointed out and tortured prisoners who turned away or turned away.”
The victims testified that Chinese men not only raped, but also bitten the woman’s whole body, leaving terrible scars. Each time, two or three men harass one victim.
In addition, women are reported to have undergone infertility treatments with intrauterine contraceptives inserted or injections called vaccines every 15 days.
Inmates If he failed to memorize Xi Jinping’s words, he wore clothes of different colors according to his failure to pass the test and was punished at different levels, such as interruption of food supply or beating. Inmates had to sing the Chinese national anthem and watch a TV program about President Xi Jinping for hours.
The BBC could not verify the witnesses’ testimony, but confirmed their stay in the detention facility through the past residence permits and passes provided by them.
The Chinese government insisted that the BBC’s questions about rape and torture charges were “unfounded.” A Chinese spokesman said in a statement that “the camp in Xinjiang is not a’confinement facility’ but a’vocational education and training center’.” A spokesman said, “The Chinese government equally protects the rights and interests of all ethnic minorities.”
Reporter Kim Bong-ju [email protected]
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