My brother-in-law was arrested
in a concentration camp
for 2 years.
This is my uncle.
He was also arrested
in September 2017.
This is my friend.
This is my cousin.
They were all arrested
in re-education camps
Today, I'm going to tell you about
Uighur detention camps, in China.
Over a million people would be
currently detained in these camps,
and here is one of the
few videos of that reality.
Hundreds of men from
this Muslim minority
are handcuffed with shaven heads
just before being transferred
by train to detention camps
With massive repression in
China and threats in France,
the Uighur diaspora also lives under
pressure from the Chinese regime 7,000 km away.
Hello,
this is the Chinese embassy
you need to come and pick up
a package at the Chinese embassy.
Thank you.
I've been getting a lot of
phone calls from unknown numbers.
A Chinese woman told me:
"You have a package, you have to pick
it up at the Chinese embassy in France."
The majority of Uighurs in France
have already received the same message.
We're afraid to go
to the Chinese embassy.
If I go there, they'll
arrest me, of course.
China would like to portray these
concentration camps as re-education centers.
We're in a situation where the Uighur identity
is being eradicated, the language, the culture.
For Brut, we have met these Uighur families 
who are looking for their missing relatives
and who want to alert the world 
about these shameful camps.
Camps for Muslim minorities
For weeks now, you may have seen 
these videos supporting the Uighur people.
Like this 17-year-old American teenager 
who posted this fake makeup tutorial,
seen millions of times.
... Curl your lashes obviously,
then you're going to put them down and 
use your phone that you're using right now
to search up what's happening in China,
how they're getting concentration camps,
throwing innocent Muslims in there,
separating their families from each other.
Kidnapping them, murdering them, raping them, 
forcing them to eat pork, forcing them to drink
This is another holocaust,
yet no one is talking about it.
So you can grab your 
lash curler again.
Mesut Özil, the star of the English soccer club
Arsenal, also tweeted against the Chinese regime.
"Qurans are burned, mosques are closed down, Islamic theological schools, madrasas were banned...the brothers are forced into the camp.”
In retaliation, Arsenal's latest game was 
prohibited from broadcasting in China.
It’s thanks to the New York Times
that China's crackdown on Uighurs
is talked about today.
In November 2019, the American newspaper 
released a secret report on this minority’s fate online.
A 400-page report that includes very 
precise orders and a ruthless speech,
that of Chinese President Xi Jinping.
According to him, they must show 
absolutely no mercy to Uighurs.
We must unleash the tools of “dictatorship” 
to eradicate radical Islam in Xinjiang.
The crackdown on Uighurs took a turn on March 1st, 2014.
There was an attack at the Kunming railway station.
The culprits: a jihadist group, a Uighur separatist group.
The outcome: 31 dead, 143 wounded…
As a result, Beijing launched its own “war on terror”.
It was on the basis of that argument, an
attack on only a small number of Uighurs,
that Chinese authorities decided 
against responding in a targeted manner
but to address the problem by 
setting up a province-wide crackdown
against the 13 million Uighurs
and Muslims who live there.
The crackdown on Uighurs takes
place in Xinjiang province.
On these satellite pictures
is a detention camp that reportedly detains 2,000 people.
Chinese authorities claim that these are 
apprenticeship or vocational training camps,
but when a person is arrested, 
placed in a camp with no right to leave it
and is subjected to any form of ill-treatment 
that may even be considered torture,
they can be called detention camps.
But what is really 
happening inside these camps?
There are no photos or videos 
that could answer this question,
but thousands of testimonies 
have been compiled by NGOs.
Former detainees all tell the same story: 
overcrowding, abuse and brainwashing.
In the detention centres, there is a whole 
indoctrination program for detainees,
that ranges from being forced to learn 
Mandarin Chinese, to patriotic songs
or songs celebrating President Xi Jinping, 
a whole program to transform them into
what Chinese authorities consider 
"good Chinese citizens."
Far from Xinjiang, in Paris, 
I met with Uighur refugees
who are also under threat 
from the Chinese government.
My mother, she sent me a message.
She told me that 
the Chinese police
have asked for my address 
in France, in Paris.
What district I live in... 
What floor, what building...
If I refuse, I'm afraid 
that the Chinese police
will trouble my parents.
Hafid has been living in France for 8 years, but the Chinese regime won’t give up…
To keep him silent: the police is pressuring his mother who still lives in China.
My mother isn’t saying 
anything during this video
because she's afraid to talk,
so she wrote a letter
in which she says that
Chinese police are now watching me.
That I have to stop talking to the media,
I have to stop talking to reporters.
Otherwise, the Chinese 
police will arrest me.
I can feel that my mother is under 
a lot of pressure in this video.
I can feel that my mother is under 
a lot of pressure in this video.
She’s very scared.
My mom is also very scared.
I was able to talk to Dilnur Reyhan, she has 
set up Uighur culture and language classes.
She is also a confidant for families in the 
diaspora, looking for their missing relatives
in the Chinese camps.
Were you able to talk to your family?
- I haven't heard 
from them in 2 years.
- What about your two 
brothers in the camps?
- My two brothers had just 
graduated from university.
They said they received a letter
to go to a vocational training center...
and they've been missing ever since.
Here are two new letters, 
the O and the U.
Did you understand 
these two letters?
Dilnur Reyhan has received threats,
but she’s defying the Chinese Regime in plain sight.
Dilnur Reyhan, President of the European Uyghur Institute :
"Either you have to accept to be totally sinicized, 
meaning to abandon your Uighur identity, "
abandon your language, 
culture and belief,
and adopt the Chinese one, or. . .
be locked up or worse, 
be tortured and disappear from this world.
That’s why it’s now our 
responsibility to pass on
our culture and language 
to our children.
Dilnur Reyhan has become a whistleblower for the Uighurs’ fate.
Today, we count 450 
figures of Uighur society
in those concentration camps.
Among them, 3 presidents of Uighur 
universities are condemned to death.
I am talking about all these Uighur intellectuals,
I am talking about the 3 million Uighurs in camps,
but they don’t have the chance to hear or know that 
somewhere in the world, we’re talking about them.
But hopefully one day they will.
In a free world. 
Thank you.
Long live freedom!
