International AFP
26 April of 2018
Police patrolling in a town in Hotan's Prefecture, In the Chinese region
de Xinjiang (northwest), he 17 February 2018.
In China, In a prison region of instability, el gobierno envía a grupos de civiles por los distintos pueblos para que se "ganen los corazones" of citizens but, also, To identify and detain everyone who may assume a threat to security.
En Akeqie Kanle, cuatro meses después de la llegada de un "equipo de trabajo" to the little town of the immense semi -desert territory of Xinjiang (northwest), 117 people -this is, he 20% of adults- They were sent to reeducation centers.
This group of civilians was one of the 10.000 deployed in 2017 by rural areas of this region, where several ethnic groups of Muslim confession live, including Uigurues, And that is usually the scene of violent acts.
The program, llamado "Conocer las condiciones de vida del pueblo, mejorar su vida y ganarse sus corazones", Mobilizes political personnel and university professors. Your goal: propagate the messages of the party, reducir la pobreza rural y promover "la armonía interétnica".
The inhabitants of the region usually attend attacks, que Pekín atribuye a "separatistas" o "extremistas" of the Uigur Turcohabbing minority, and that they left hundreds of dead in recent years.
Uigures claim to be victims of religious discriminations and in the labor market. For your part, The authorities are concerned about the ties of a radicalized sector of this community and international jihadist groups.
When a group from the Bingtuan University and Radio University arrived at the beginning of 2017 a Akeqie Kanle, His mission was essentially humanitarian, from providing professional training classes to the management of the people and ensuring food and drinking water.
– 'Erradicar los tumores' –
But its mission was extended soon, moving to population surveillance work and interrogations. Many of the inhabitants were sent to reeducation centers.
"Podemos desvelar lo que ocurre en Akeqie Knale, mirar tras los visillos y erradicar los tumores", published the communication service of the educational center in a social network.
The university and regional authorities of Xianjiang declined to answer the AFP questions about this operation.
But hundreds of official documents, Press articles The state press and government messages on social networks give a clear idea of the methods used. And of the deep impact they have at the local level.
Akeqie Kanle belongs to the Moyu district, where three uigures attacked, at the end of 2016, An office of the Communist Party, where two local managers died.
The attack behaved of the deployment of tens of thousands of supplementary police and military in Xinjiang, where altercations are repeated for a decade. She further , a system of control of religious practices and mandatory reeducation for those people considered a risk were launched.
Surveillance cameras multiplied. And those civilians of civilians became the eyes of the party, With the commission to visit each rural family at least once a week to detect any suspicious behavior.
These visits have become even daily in the case of religious people, Passport holders, men of 16 a 45 years and illiterates. They are the categories of the population especially likely to be influenced by extremists, According to the Regional Bureau of Justice.
In some Xinjiang locations, The authorities listed 25 illegal religious activities and 75 radicalization signs, some of which might seem the most anodine, how to quit smoking or buy a tent.
According to the Internet portal of a local government, incluso las transgresiones menores pueden conllevar tres meses de detención en un "centro de transformación educativa".
The hospitalized people follow military exercises, Chinese Marxism and Lessons courses.
The number of detainees has become so important that schools have begun to propose recovery courses for children whose parents were admitted.
In addition, Working groups were mobilized to help women alone and the elderly in agricultural tasks.
However, The internal memoranda of the authorities collect the growing resentment of the population of Xinjiang with respect to this program.
On its website, la oficina regional de Agricultura enumera las precauciones que deben tomar los "equipos de trabajo" And how to act in case of ambush.
