{"id":999,"date":"2018-09-08T18:13:43","date_gmt":"2018-09-08T18:13:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.uyghuracademy.org\/?p=999"},"modified":"2018-09-08T18:13:43","modified_gmt":"2018-09-08T18:13:43","slug":"chinas-jaw-dropping-family-separation-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.uyghuracademy.org\/?p=999","title":{"rendered":"China’s Jaw-Dropping Family Separation Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"

 <\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The Atlantic<\/a><\/p>\n

Children and parents are being ripped apart on a massive scale. It may rob an entire generation of their Muslim identities.<\/p>\n

Tahir Imin is the type of father who likes to take a video of his daughter each and every week. His phone is full of clips and photos of her: in a tutu, holding up a drawing, on a merry-go-round. Even at age six, she would ride piggyback on him as they made-believe she was a princess and he, a king. She\u2019s seven years old now, and he\u2019d probably still carry her aloft on his back if he could. But she\u2019s in China. He\u2019s in the U.S. And the last time they talked, about six months ago, she told him he\u2019s a bad person.<\/p>\n

Imin and his family are Uighurs, a mostly Muslim ethnic minority concentrated in China\u2019s northwestern Xinjiang region. The country has long suppressed Uighur religious identity, claiming it fuels separatism and extremism, and\u00a0in the past year<\/a>\u00a0its crackdown has grown<\/a>\u00a0increasingly harsh<\/a>. China has sent approximately one million Uighurs to internment camps for\u00a0what the government calls \u201cre-education,\u201d<\/a>\u00a0according to estimates cited by\u00a0the UN<\/a>\u00a0and<\/a>\u00a0U.S. officials<\/a>.\u00a0The Independent<\/a><\/em>and other\u00a0media outlets<\/a>\u00a0have reported, based on interviews with former inmates, that camp administrators try to force Uighurs to renounce Islam\u2014which the Communist Party has characterized in one official recording as\u00a0an \u201cideological illness\u201d and a \u201cvirus [in] their brain\u201d<\/a>\u2014and get them to identify with the Chinese government rather than with the Uighur people.<\/p>\n

The mass internment system doesn\u2019t only affect the Uighurs incarcerated in it. It also involves\u00a0family separation<\/a>, which impacts thousands of children. When Uighur parents are sent to the camps, their children are often taken away to state-run orphanages, which are proliferating to accommodate the growing demand, Emily Feng of\u00a0the\u00a0Financial Times<\/em>\u00a0has reported<\/a>. Under state care, isolated from their relatives, the children are cut off from Uighur culture and language. Ultimately, some Uighurs and experts told me, such assimilationist policies may enable China to reshape the identity of an entire generation of Uighurs.<\/p>\n

Source:https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/amp\/article\/569062\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  The Atlantic Children and parents are being ripped apart on a massive scale. It may rob an entire generation of their Muslim identities. Tahir Imin is the type of father who likes to take a video of his daughter each and every week. His phone is full of clips and photos of her: in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uyghur-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.uyghuracademy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.uyghuracademy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.uyghuracademy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.uyghuracademy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.uyghuracademy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=999"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/en.uyghuracademy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1002,"href":"https:\/\/en.uyghuracademy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999\/revisions\/1002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.uyghuracademy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.uyghuracademy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.uyghuracademy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}