{"id":1904848,"date":"2023-03-25T13:40:21","date_gmt":"2023-03-25T17:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-china-committee-hears-abuse-of-uyghurs-in-ccps-re-education-camps\/"},"modified":"2023-03-25T13:42:49","modified_gmt":"2023-03-25T17:42:49","slug":"house-china-committee-hears-abuse-of-uyghurs-in-ccps-re-education-camps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-china-committee-hears-abuse-of-uyghurs-in-ccps-re-education-camps\/","title":{"rendered":"House China Committee Hears Abuse of Uyghurs in CCP\u2019s \u2018Re-Education\u2019 Camps"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhouse-china-committee-hears-abuse-of-uyghurs-in-ccps-re-education-camps%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1904848&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div class=\"post_content\">\n<div class=\"aplayer_app\" data-source=\"https:\/\/vs1.youmaker.com\/assets\/2023\/0325\/00069dcb-4743-42f8-84ee-224dd96be869\/audio.mp3?length=8077293&#038;duration=673\"><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Two prison camp survivors recounted how Uyghur women were subjected to sterilization, sexual abuse, electric shocks, and brainwashing in China\u2019s \u201cre-education\u201d camps during a hearing held by House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) on March 23.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGenocide is occurring, this time at the hands of the Chinese Communist Party,\u201d said Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.), the committee chairman, at the start of the hearing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe CCP\u2019s genocide against Uyghurs and other Muslims groups is real,\u201d Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-Ill.), the committee\u2019s ranking member, said at the hearing. \u201cNot only is it going on to this day, it is expanding. It is not too late to confront these atrocities so that the famous saying \u2018never again\u2019 can actually become a reality.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>China has used \u201ccombating extremism\u201d as a pretext for locking up over 1 million Uyghurs in its far-western region of Xinjiang, where detainees are subjected to forced labor, torture, political indoctrination, forced abortion, and other inhuman treatment in the Chinese internment camps.<\/p>\n<p>In 2021, both the Trump and the Biden administrations formally declared China\u2019s treatment of Uyghurs as \u201cgenocide\u201d and \u201ccrimes against humanity.\u201d Several countries have followed suit, including Belgium, Canada, the Czech Republic, Lithuania, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5090416\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><\/noscript> Chairman Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.) speaks during the first hearing on national security and Chinese threats to America held by the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party on Capitol Hill in Washington on Feb. 28, 2023. (Roberto Schmidt\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The hearing, Gallagher said, could, at the very minimum, raise awareness.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe least we can do on this committee is to make sure that in 50 years\u2014when the Xinjiang genocide is remembered as one of the abominations of the 21st century\u2014no corporate executive, no policy maker, no investor, no university president can look their grandchildren in the eye and claim they didn\u2019t know,\u201d\u00a0 Gallagher said.<\/p>\n<h2><b>\u2018Grateful for Xi Jinping\u2019<\/b><\/h2>\n<p>One of the two firsthand witnesses to testify at the hearing was Gulbahar Haitiwaji, a Uyghur now living in France.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was chained to the bed for 20 days,\u201d Haitiwaji said through a translator during the hearing, recalling how she was punished in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Haitiwaji, living in France, was lured back to China in late 2016 to take care of her retirement pension.<\/p>\n<p>She was held in two different education camps for over two years before she returned to France in August 2019, with the help of the French government and her daughter\u2019s campaigning.<\/p>\n<p>While incarcerated, Haitiwaji recalled she was forced to sit on a restraining device called the \u201ctiger chair\u201d while being interrogated. Also, she said she was subjected to \u201cbrainwashing education\u201d for 11 hours a day and was tested on what she learned at the end of each week.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5101225\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><\/noscript> Chinese leader Xi Jinping attends the opening of the first session of the 14th National People\u2019s Congress in Beijing on March 5, 2023. (Lintao Zhang\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWe have to learn songs that praising [sic] Chinese Communist Party and the government,\u201d Haitiwaji said. \u201cBefore eating, we have to praise \u2026 we are very grateful for China\u2019s Communist Party, and we are grateful for [Chinese leader] Xi Jinping, and after [sic] finish eating, we have to praise them and thank them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Uyghurs in these camps are forbidden from speaking their native language, Haitiwaji added, and women like her are given sterilization shots.<\/p>\n<p>Upon returning to France, Haitiwaji published her experiences in the Chinese camps in her book \u201cHow I Survived a Chinese \u2018Re-Education\u2019 Camp\u201d in January 2021.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter my book [was] published, China\u2019s government accused me, [saying] that \u2018I am a terrorist,\u2019\u201d Haitiwaji said. \u201cSince then, I [have] lost contact with my family.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><b>\u2018Horrible Screaming From Torture\u2019\u00a0<\/b><\/h2>\n<p>Qelbinur Sidik, a member of China\u2019s ethnic Uzbeck minority, was a Chinese-language teacher by trade. In 2017, she was assigned to a new position, and it was not until she arrived at her job that she realized that her students were Uyghurs at a concentration camp guarded by military police with rifles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor each meal, they eat one Chinese bun and water, and even going for [sic] toilet is monitored,\u201d Sidik said through a translator. During her six-month teaching there, she said none of her students had a shower.<\/p>\n<p>Her students would also be called from her classroom for interrogation, Sidik said, and she would hear \u201chorrible screaming from torture\u201d because the interrogation rooms were nearby.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are four types of torturing methods,\u201d Sidik said. \u201cOne is electric baton, [and the others are the] electric helmet, electric glove, and a tiger chair.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sidik said her students who were being tortured would miss her classes for weeks or months.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5147388\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><\/noscript> Qelbinur Sidik, a member of China\u2019s ethnic Uzbek minority forced to teach Chinese in separate detention facilities for Uyghur men and women, holds up images as she testifies during a special House committee hearing on the CCP on Capitol Hill in Washington on March 23, 2023. (Carolyn Kaster\/AP Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Female prisoners were given unknown medicine every Monday, Sidik said, and their period would stop after taking the drug.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven some women who were breastfeeding the babies, the breast milk will stop after taking that medicine,\u201d Sidik said.<\/p>\n<p>Sidik added that guards at the camp were raping female prisoners and even inserting electric batons into their private parts to rape and torture them. She recalled witnessing the death of a girl aged between 18 and 20, who died from bleeding nonstop for two months.<\/p>\n<p>Eventually, Sidik left her job and escaped to the Netherlands, where she lives now. However, her husband, a Uyghur, remains in China.<\/p>\n<p>After she went public with her experiences in the camp, she said she received threats from Chinese police, who contacted her using the social media accounts belonging to her sister and husband.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI [have] lost contact with my family members, including my husband. I\u2019m not sure whether my husband is still alive or not,\u201d Sidik said.<\/p>\n<h2><b>\u2018Organs Are Harvested on Demand\u2019<\/b><\/h2>\n<p>Rep. Neal Dunn (R-Fla.), a select committee member, spoke at the hearing about how he was disturbed by the CCP\u2019s practice of forced organ harvesting. He pointed to the transplantation data in the United States and questioned why waiting times for organs in China are so much shorter.<\/p>\n<p>There are more than 104,000 patients on the national transplant waiting list, according to the Health Resources and Services Administration, an agency under the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The large number exists despite nearly 43,000 transplants\u00a0last year, a new annual record and an increase of 3.7 percent over 2021.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo how is it that in China, wait times for hearts and lungs are significantly shorter than in other countries?\u201d Dunn said. Articles suggest that patients are even given their surgery dates well in advance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis seemingly unlimited supply of organs tells us\u2014organs are harvested on demand.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2735877\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><\/noscript> Legal counsel to the Independent Tribunal Into Forced Organ Harvesting In China Hamid Sabi (L) and Chair to the tribunal Sir Geoffrey Nice QC on the first day of public hearings in London on Dec. 8, 2018. (Justin Palmer)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As evidence, Dunn presented findings gathered by the Independent Tribunal Into Forced Organ Harvesting In China, an independent people\u2019s tribunal chaired by Sir Geoffrey Nice QC, who previously led the prosecution of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic for war crimes at the International Criminal Tribunal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Tribunal\u2019s members are certain\u2014unanimously, and sure beyond reasonable doubt\u2014that in China forced organ harvesting from prisoners of conscience has been practiced for a substantial period of time involving a very substantial number of victims,\u201d Dunn said, quoting from the tribunal\u2019s 2018 interim judgment (pdf).<\/p>\n<p>The judgment also concluded that the Chinese regime had been harvesting organs from prisoners of conscience for years \u201con a significant scale,\u201d with Falun Gong practitioners being the primary source of the donor organs.<\/p>\n<p>Falun Gong, or Falun Dafa, is a spiritual practice consisting of meditative exercises and moral teachings. By 1999, seven years after the practice was introduced to the public, there were 70 million to 100 million adherents in China, according to estimates.<\/p>\n<p>Seeing the practice\u2019s popularity as a threat to its rule, the Chinese regime launched a brutal campaign to persecute Falun Gong practitioners in July 1999 to eradicate the practice, targeting innocents in a violent, deadly suppression that experts have described as genocide.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4912190\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><\/noscript> Falun Gong practitioners march to raise awareness about the Chinese regime\u2019s brutal persecution of the spiritual practice, including forced organ harvesting, in New York on May 13, 2022. (Larry Dye\/The Epoch Times)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The China Tribunal presented its full judgment in March 2020, detailing a range of evidence to support its conclusion that the state-sanctioned forced organ harvesting continues unabated in China. It pointed out that imprisoned Falun Gong practitioners and Uyghurs were subjected to widespread blood tests and other medical tests, but other prisoners were not tested.<\/p>\n<p>While the Tribunal could not draw a definitive conclusion that imprisoned Uyhgurs were also victims of forced organ harvesting, it said that \u201cthe vulnerability of the Uyghurs to being used as a bank of organs is \u2026 obvious.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><b>\u2018Barbaric\u2019<\/b><\/h2>\n<p>One of the witnesses at the hearing, Adrian Zenz, senior fellow and director in China Studies at the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation in Washington, told lawmakers that\u00a0Chinese transplant doctors had removed the prisoners\u2019 organs while they were still alive and killed them in the process when answering a question from select committee member Rep. Carlos Gim\u00e9nez (R-Fla.).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy colleague at Victims of Communism, Matthew Robertson, has published a paper in America\u2019s leading transplant journal examining over 100,000 Chinese academic research papers and closely looking at 2,800 of them,\u201d Zenz said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd in 71 Chinese research papers, he found in the text evidence that basically, the donor rule was not observed, meaning that several of the persons in question were executed through organ extraction.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The paper, published in the American Journal of Transplantation in April 2022, found instances of Chinese transplant doctors breaking the \u201cdead donor rule,\u201d which states that organ donors must be dead before procurement of organs begins, and organ procurement must not cause the death of the donor.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, Chinese doctors began removing organs from death-row prisoners and prisoners of conscience before they were diagnosed correctly as brain dead, which is a precondition to organ extraction, according to the paper.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe found that the physicians became the executioners on behalf of the state and that the method of execution was heart removal,\u201d Robertson said in a statement about his study, co-authored with Israeli cardiac transplantation surgeon Jacob Lavee. \u201cThese surgeries are highly profitable for the doctors and hospitals that engage in them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"morearticles\"><strong>Read More<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"post_list\">\n<div class=\"article\">Bipartisan Senate Bill Aims to Punish Beijing for Forced Organ Harvesting<\/div>\n<div class=\"article\">US \u2018Will Continue to Focus\u2019 on China\u2019s Forced Organ Harvesting: State Department<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>After hearing Zenz\u2019s remarks, Gim\u00e9nez expressed concerns about a future dominated by the CCP.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI find the Chinese Communist Party not only repressive and brutal, it\u2019s also barbaric,\u201d Gim\u00e9nez said. \u201cAnd if we don\u2019t do something about it, and we don\u2019t stop this, then my fear is that my children and my grandchildren will one day face a world where they\u2019re going to be dominated by this party.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two prison camp survivors recounted how Uyghur women were subjected to sterilization, sexual abuse, electric shocks, and brainwashing in China\u2019s \u201cre-education\u201d camps during a hearing held by House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) on March 23. \u201cGenocide is occurring, this time at the hands of the Chinese Communist Party,\u201d said Rep. 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