China is actively putting Muslim members of its population in concentration camps solely on the basis of their religion, forcing them to follow their communist party bringing back harrowing memories of the years building up to the holocaust or Japanese Internment camps.  

The scale and intent of China’s repressive measures against the Uyghur people bears all the hallmarks of the 20th century’s worst pogroms, including the construction of a network of concentration camps, which have been identified by satellite imagery, and forcibly house upwards of 2 million Uyghur Muslims for such “crimes” as praying, fasting, attending a mosque, speaking native tongue, wearing the hijab, having a full beard or carrying the Qur’an. Accounts of torture, murder, executions, and forced disappearances are as disturbingly widespread.

Last month, a leaked database painted a clear picture of exactly how draconian and dystopian China’s crackdown on Uyghur Muslims has become during the past year or two, with GDI Foundation, a non-profit that advocates an open Internet, revealing Chinese authorities have implemented a “Muslim tracker,” one that currently locates the movement of 2.5 million Muslims in Xinjiang using facial software recognition.

Chinese government has tight control over all media, including social media, in the country, which deprives the world seeing the kind of visual images that would propel whole populations around the globe into taking up pro-Uyghur activist causes.

None of the world leaders want to speak up against the Chinese in fear of economic backlash, but we want our president to make a statement condemning China for its discrimination and ethnic cleansing programs that it has actively going on right now as a first step towards ending these heinous crimes. 

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