China cables

As China Cables or Xinjiang Papers one is leak of secret documents to the Chinese designated government. The documents prove the systematic persecution and suppression of the Uighurs in everyday life and in re-education camps in Xinjiang , an autonomous region in the People's Republic of China . They are from 2017 and 2018 and were given to the International Network of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ). After the release in November 2019, China Cables received international attention.

publication

The New York Times published 403 pages of the leak in mid-November 2019 under the heading Absolutely No Mercy (in German: No Trace of Forbearance / Mercy ) after they had been analyzed by around 75 journalists as well as media partners and consultants.

The documents and English translations are available for download from the ICIJ website.

Content & analysis

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The documents include 96 pages with previously unpublished, older speeches by President Xi Jinping on dealing with the alleged minority problem, a court judgment against a Uyghur and around 160 pages of handouts on the operation of these special internment camps . A special personal responsibility in the strategic planning lies with the deputy party leader of the region, Zhu Hailun .

The documents are of historical importance and politically explosive, as they testify with texts from the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party that people are imprisoned and are not allowed to leave the camps. The Chinese government's argument so far has been that such camps are "vocational training centers" and that staying there is voluntary. In fact, the inmates would be detained there for at least a year. The documents also suggest that China is using its missions abroad to monitor Uyghurs abroad.

Reactions

Adrian Zenz , a German anthropologist and member of the “Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation”, spoke of a “ cultural genocide ” in an interview with tagesschau.de . In terms of size, it is probably the largest "systematic internment of an entire ethno-religious minority [...] since the Holocaust . It is an unprecedented campaign of assimilation, repression, and re-education ”. However, China is not concerned with eliminating ethnic minorities, but with integrating them into the Chinese state in the long term and “in a very intensive way. Culturally, religiously, linguistically, in every respect. "

The German federal government demanded access to the controversial camps by international experts, but spoke out against sanctions. One is "concerned", but has to stay in the dialogue. The Guardian quoted an official at the Chinese Embassy in London as saying that the published documents were " fake news ". After the news on November 25th, a spokesman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry said it was an internal matter for China. The best answer to the "defamatory reports" is a "stable and prosperous" Xinjiang.

See also

• Uighur independence movement
• Human rights in the People's Republic of China

Web links

• Exposed: China's Operating Manuals for Mass Internment and Arrest by Algorithm of the International Network of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ)
• 'Absolutely No Mercy': Leaked Files Expose How China Organized Mass Detentions of Muslims by The New York Times
• These are the China Cables from Süddeutsche Zeitung

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Secret papers show systematic persecution of Uyghurs , Die Zeit website, November 25, 2019. Retrieved November 26, 2019.
2. ↑ Austin Ramzy, Chris Buckley, 'Absolutely No Mercy': Leaked Files Expose How China Organized Mass Detentions of Muslims , The New York Times website, November 16, 2019. Accessed November 26.
3. ↑ > Read the China Cables Documents. Download and read the classified documents at the heart of the China Cables. In: International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ). November 24, 2019, accessed November 26, 2019 . 
4. ↑ Sasha Chavkin: China Cables. Xinjiang's Architect of Mass Detention. Zhu Hailun. In: International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ). November 24, 2019, accessed November 26, 2019 . 
5. ↑ The most important facts about the China Cables ; süddeutsche.de of November 24, 2019; accessed on November 25, 2019
6. ↑ "It's about cultural genocide" ; tagesschau.de of November 24, 2019; accessed on November 25, 2019
7. ↑ ^{a b} "Concerned, but still in dialogue" ; tagesschau.de of November 25, 2019; accessed on November 26, 2019