{"id":1784,"date":"2020-04-16T12:39:29","date_gmt":"2020-04-16T12:39:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.uyghuracademy.org\/?p=1784"},"modified":"2020-04-16T12:40:11","modified_gmt":"2020-04-16T12:40:11","slug":"ccp-assimilates-uyghurs-by-banning-their-culture-and-religion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.uyghuracademy.org\/?p=1784","title":{"rendered":"CCP Assimilates Uyghurs by Banning Their Culture and Religion"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Chang Xin\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Chinese government has been eradicating Uyghurs\u2019 customs and traditions by prohibiting the use of their language, forcing them to eat pork.<\/p>\n

Forced to eat pork<\/p>\n

A Han Chinese teacher who volunteers in southern Uyghur Autonomous Region told Bitter Winter<\/em>\u00a0that in May last year, her school launched a special course to indoctrinate Uyghur students with communist ideology and impose on them traditional Han customs, which should replace their Uyghur traditions and culture. One of the imposed new traditions is eating pork.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe school tells us to teach Uyghur students\u00a0patriotism<\/a>\u00a0and political ideology at the start of each class,\u201d the teacher said. She added that children are forced to celebrate traditional Han Chinese holidays, like Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival, and eat customary festival food, rice pudding and moon cakes, respectively. Because these foods are not halal, children have a hard time eating them.<\/p>\n

A teacher from a primary school in Kashgar city (in Uyghur Autonomous Region) remembered how in October 2018, her Uyghur colleagues were taken to a Han cuisine restaurant, where they were forced to eat its specialties\u2014braised pork belly and pork trotters.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf they refused to eat, they would be labeled as having ideological problems and treated as \u2018two-faced persons,\u2019\u201d the teacher told\u00a0Bitter Winter<\/em>. \u201cThey can even be sent to\u00a0transformation through education camps<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Even Uyghur officials are not spared: In April 2019, an ethnic Uyghur was dismissed as the head of a\u00a0township<\/a>\u00a0for refusing to eat pork.<\/p>\n

For\u00a0Uyghurs<\/a> held in transformation through education camps, the situation is even direr. In November 2018, Kashgar city officials ordered to feed pork to all Uyghurs held in the camps, threatening to starve them if they refuse. The order also stipulated that those who eat pork would be given a CCP<\/a>\u00a0emblem as proof of their good performance and ideological transformation. A local Uyghur who was recently released from a camp told\u00a0Bitter Winter<\/em>\u00a0that most Uyghurs preferred to starve to death than eat pork, which much irritated the camp authorities.<\/p>\n

Uyghur language banned<\/strong><\/p>\n

The CCP also forbids Uyghur teachers and students from using their language and bans all Uyghur books and newspapers on Uyghur Autonomous Region\u2019s campuses.<\/p>\n

In January last year, 28 Uyghur teachers from a primary school in Urumqi, the capital of Uyghur Autonomous Region, were all disqualified from teaching positions. According to a staff member, the teachers with the highest qualifications were assigned to guard dormitories and do odd jobs.<\/p>\n

Around the same time, a local shop owner was reported for selling notebooks in the Uyghur language and was sent to a five-day class to study the Chinese Constitution, national policies, and regulations on religious beliefs. According to the man, eight other shop owners were in the class because they had words in Uyghur on their signboards.<\/p>\n

A Uyghur Autonomous Region resident told Bitter Winter<\/em>\u00a0that no signs in Uyghur can be found on his\u00a0village<\/a>\u2019s bulletin boards. Even a medical record in Uyghur was confiscated by a community official.<\/p>\n

Education in Mandarin only<\/strong><\/p>\n

As the use of the Uyghur language is restricted, school children now have their classes in Mandarin only.<\/p>\n

In June 2017, the Education Bureau of Hotan city (in Uyghur Autonomous Region) issued a document, ordering all kindergartens, primary and middle schools in Xinjiang to implement educational activities in Mandarin only, aiming to use it in all educational institutions by 2020.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s too late now for them to start studying in Mandarin,\u201d a teacher from Kashgar (in Uyghur Autonomous Region) was worried about older students. \u201cUnless they study it from a young age, they won\u2019t keep up with courses at all. Some students received zero out of 150 points during the Mandarin examination.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe plan is for students in Uyghur Autonomous Region to use the same examination papers as elsewhere in China,\u201d the teacher continued. \u201cStudents who used to get a score of 90 for the Uyghur language exam now get 20 in Mandarin. The future of this Uyghur generation is ruined. If students get a zero, the Education Bureau publicly criticizes their volunteer Han teachers and deduct their salary.\u201d<\/p>\n

To improve Uyghur students\u2019 study in Mandarin, the teacher\u2019s school makes them study throughout the year, allowing only 20 vacation days. Even during holidays, students are urged to attend intensive Mandarin classes and watch Mandarin cartoons.<\/p>\n

Forced learning of Mandarin is infiltrating every village in Uyghur Region. \u201cVillagers, young and old, have to meet in the village committee for Mandarin classes for two hours every evening,\u201d Han volunteer teacher in Kashgar said. \u201cThey also have to take examinations regularly.\u201d The teacher was also forced to participate in the CCP\u2019 \u201chome-stay\u201d program<\/a>\u00a0when Han Chinese were sent to live with Uyghurs to transform their ideologies.<\/p>\n

Source: Bitter Winter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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