onsdag 25. desember 2019

'This is mass rape': Uighur activist condemns program said to pay Chinese men to sleep with Uighur women to promote 'ethnic unity'

A Uighur activist has spoken out against China's "Pair Up and Become Family" program, in which Han Chinese men are sent to live with Uighur women in China's western region of Xinjiang. Rushan Abbas, a US-based Uighur activist whose family members have been detained in one of what is believed to be hundreds of detention centers in the region, told the Australian news outlet. News.com.au that the program was part of a program of systemic rape against Uighur women. Recent reports say Han Chinese men are sent to live with Uighur women and often sleep in the same beds as the women.

China has been criticized for its detention and surveillance of millions of Uighurs in Xinjiang. The region has a population of about 10 million people, many of whom are Uighur or other ethnic minorities and are believed to be held in these detention centers.