By: IBRAHIM Jaafar
Uighur Muslim women are being sterilized in China internment camps in the guise of re-education according to former detainees.
“They injected us from time to time,” claimed Gulbahar Jalilova, who was held for more than a year in government “re-education centres” in the far-west Xinjiang region.
The 54-year-old told France24 . ”We soon realized that after our injections that we didn’t get our periods any more.”
Most of her time was spent with up to 50 people packed into a cell measuring just 10ft by 20ft. “It’s like we were just piece of meat,” she added.
A 30-year-old Mehrigul Tursun gave similar account during a video call to an Amnesty International event in Tokyo, as reported by the Nikkei Asian Review.
Ms Tursun, who now lives in exile in the US, told of being given unknown drugs and injections while detained at an internment camp in 2017.
She said she felt “tired for about a week, lost my memories and felt depressed” and was released four months later after being diagnosed as being mentally ill.
Doctors in the US later told her that she had been sterilized, she said.
Up to one million Uighurs, Kazakhs and other minorities have been arbitrarily detained in internment camps, according the UN and human rights groups.
Researchers have claimed the facilities are being run like “wartime concentration camps” as part of a “systematic campaign of social re-engineering and cultural genocide”.
The Chinese government however has described them as “boarding schools” offering vocational training and rejected allegations of torture and other abuses as “fake news”.
Former detainees have previously told of torture, beatings and electrocution as well as being forced to eat pork, attend political re-education lessons and sing political songs.
The global outcry over China’s treatment of minority groups has had little effect.
While the Uighur Muslims keeps crying and seeking the international help to stop there forced re-education and ill-treatments, more than 30 countries have signed a letter defending China 's treatment of Uighur Muslims in the Xinjiang region in a the letter sent to the UN's Human Rights Council, claiming that China had restored peace and security in the region through counter-terrorism measures and vocational training.
The states, includes prominent members of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, such as Pakistan and Saudi Arabia.
Security of life must be ensured in every country, but the human and religious rights of Uighurs, must be respected and protected in China, either China willfully changes its policy or she is made to.