China’s mass indoctrination camps evoke (brutal and murderous) Cultural Revolution

“The closest analogue is maybe the Cultural Revolution in that this will leave long-term, psychological effects,” Thum said. “This will create a multigenerational trauma from which many people will never recover.”

Many people in this country, especially younger people, don’t know what Mao’s Cultural Revolution was. In short, it was the Chinese communists’s attempt to wipe any pre-socialist thinking in China from China. Confucism, Christianity, people who dared think for themselves, people who wore their hair too long, anything that was in conflict with the ethos of communism/socialism was prey. People were brutalized, and raped, and killed. Millions were killed.

This was the Cultural Revolution.

That this sort of government sponsored action is rising up again in China should be of serious concern to the world.

(From The AP)

Hour upon hour, day upon day, Omir Bekali and other detainees in far western China’s new indoctrination camps had to disavow their Islamic beliefs, criticize themselves and their loved ones and give thanks to the ruling Communist Party.

When Bekali, a Kazakh Muslim, refused to follow orders each day, he was forced to stand at a wall for five hours at a time. A week later, he was sent to solitary confinement, where he was deprived of food for 24 hours. After 20 days in the heavily guarded camp, he wanted to kill himself.

“The psychological pressure is enormous, when you have to criticize yourself, denounce your thinking — your own ethnic group,” said Bekali, who broke down in tears as he described the camp. “I still think about it every night, until the sun rises. I can’t sleep. The thoughts are with me all the time.”

Since last spring, Chinese authorities in the heavily Muslim region of Xinjiang have ensnared tens, possibly hundreds of thousands of Muslim Chinese — and even foreign citizens — in mass internment camps. This detention campaign has swept across Xinjiang, a territory half the area of India, leading to what a U.S. commission on China last month said is “the largest mass incarceration of a minority population in the world today.”

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