{"id":42104,"date":"2022-05-27T21:23:36","date_gmt":"2022-05-27T21:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jww.org\/?p=42104"},"modified":"2022-05-27T21:26:03","modified_gmt":"2022-05-27T21:26:03","slug":"xinjiang-police-files","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jww.org\/site\/xinjiang-police-files\/","title":{"rendered":"Xinjiang Police Files: Truth and Justice"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"42104\" class=\"elementor elementor-42104\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-569353b5 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"569353b5\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-131fc622\" data-id=\"131fc622\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6db2784e elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"6db2784e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>This week, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/extra\/85qihtvw6e\/the-faces-from-chinas-uyghur-detention-camps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the BBC released<\/a> thousands of leaked police images, files and classified speeches documenting, in damning detail, the Chinese Communist Party\u2019s internment and genocidal intent against the Uyghur people.<\/p><p>The leak \u201cestablishes beyond the shadow of a doubt, beyond any question, that [the Chinese Communist Party] knows exactly what they\u2019re doing,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/forward.com\/opinion\/503642\/xinjiang-police-files-uyghur-genocide\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">as I told Rob Eshman of The Forward.<\/a> \u201cThe documents show intent \u2014 that Party officials have fully committed to a genocidal plan.\u201d<\/p><p>The files include 5,000 police photos of Uyghurs \u2013 the youngest, Rahile Omer, was only 15-years-old at the time of her detention. Each of these people was disappeared, taken from their homes and families, and this week, finally, the haunting stories of missing sisters, brothers, and parents have a face.<\/p><p>Many images show officers armed with batons and prisoners forcibly moved in chains with bags over their heads. Others are of people looking stoic with shaved heads. The report details the long-reported forced labor, forced sterilization and cultural eradication camps.<\/p><p>Now, finally, the world cannot look away. Right?<\/p><p>We have heard the stories. This week, we have seen the faces \u2013 let us lift them up \u2013 let us respond to tragedy through action and demand that our legislators follow suit. The Senate has approved legislation that would help fight the use of Uyghur forced labor and goods on U.S. soil. <a href=\"https:\/\/secure.jww.org\/a\/americacompetes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">I hope you will join me in urging Congress to pass it swiftly.<\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, the BBC released thousands of leaked police images, files and classified speeches documenting, in damning detail, the Chinese Communist Party\u2019s internment and genocidal intent against the Uyghur people. The leak \u201cestablishes beyond the shadow of a doubt, beyond any question, that [the Chinese Communist Party] knows exactly what they\u2019re doing,\u201d as I told&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":42105,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[176,188],"tags":[606,607,155,140,186,153],"class_list":["post-42104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-news-features","tag-airbnb","tag-business","tag-china","tag-genocide","tag-united-states","tag-uyghurs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jww.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jww.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jww.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jww.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jww.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42104"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jww.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42109,"href":"https:\/\/jww.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42104\/revisions\/42109"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jww.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jww.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jww.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jww.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}