{"id":177231,"date":"2019-11-17T21:21:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-18T02:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/11\/17\/not-a-single-occurrence-of-the-word-genocide\/"},"modified":"2019-11-17T21:21:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-18T02:21:00","slug":"not-a-single-occurrence-of-the-word-genocide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/11\/17\/not-a-single-occurrence-of-the-word-genocide\/","title":{"rendered":"Not a Single Occurrence of the Word “Genocide”"},"content":{"rendered":"

The New York Times<\/i> has a blockbuster using leaked documents showing that China is using mass detentions in an attempt to eradicate the culture of its citizens in western China<\/a>, most notably the Uighurs. (Long read)<\/p>\n

Acting on this scale, there are somewhere around a million people in detention, one can only conclude that that this is a deliberate attempt to eliminate the ethnic character of the population that they are likening to a disease.<\/p>\n

Why not a single quote from someone who would describe it as a “genocide”?<\/p>\n

The students booked their tickets home at the end of the semester, hoping for a relaxing break after exams and a summer of happy reunions with family in China\u2019s far west.<\/span>

<\/span>Instead, they would soon be told that their parents were gone, relatives had vanished and neighbors were missing \u2014 all of them locked up in an expanding network of detention camps built to hold Muslim ethnic minorities.<\/span>

<\/span>The authorities in the Xinjiang region worried the situation was a powder keg. And so they prepared.<\/span>

<\/span>The leadership distributed a classified directive advising local officials to corner returning students as soon as they arrived and keep them quiet. It included a chillingly bureaucratic guide for how to handle their anguished questions, beginning with the most obvious: Where is my family?<\/span>

<\/span>The directive was among 403 pages of internal documents that have been shared with The New York Times in one of the most significant leaks of government papers from inside China\u2019s ruling Communist Party in decades. They provide an unprecedented inside view of the continuing clampdown in Xinjiang, in which the authorities have corralled as many as a million ethnic Uighurs, Kazakhs and others into internment camps and prisons<\/a> over the past three years.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The leaked papers offer a striking picture of how the hidden machinery of the Chinese state carried out the country\u2019s most far-reaching internment campaign since the Mao era. The key disclosures in the documents include:  <\/span><\/p>\n