Here is the New Yorker link. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/04/12/surviving-the-crackdown-in-xinjiang
Is there another source to back up the claims made in the article? Claims like these? Some source other than the BBC or Adrian Zenz ,who is heavily cited here. https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/minnesota/articles/2021-03-18/china-accuses-outspoken-scholar-on-xinjiang-of-fabrication > > > > In Xi’s effort to build a “wall” around Xinjiang, advanced technology > would become central. Researchers with an organization called IPVM, which > studies video surveillance, discovered evidence that in 2017 China’s > Ministry of Public Security set a requirement: facial-recognition software > used with surveillance cameras had to be trained to distinguish Uyghur > faces. Several leading Chinese manufacturers quickly began to develop the > technology—an “Uyghur alarm,” as one system was called in a Huawei test > report. Although the race-based monitoring systems are of uncertain > accuracy, they have been deployed in at least a dozen jurisdictions > outside Xinjiang. > > > > > Xinjiang itself has become a laboratory for digital surveillance. By 2013, > officials in Ürümqi had begun to affix QR codes to the exterior of homes, > which security personnel could scan to obtain details about residents. On > Chen Quanguo’s arrival, all cars were fitted with state-issued G.P.S. > trackers. Every new cell-phone number had to be registered, and phones > were routinely checked; authorities could harvest everything from photos > to location data. Wi-Fi “sniffers” were installed to extract identifying > data from computers and other devices. Chen also launched a program called > Physicals for All, gathering biometric data—blood types, fingerprints, > voiceprints, iris patterns—under the guise of medical care. Every Xinjiang > resident between the ages of twelve and sixty-five was required to provide > the state with a DNA sample. > > That summer, amid these changes, the director of Sabit’s camp permitted > the detainees time in a walled-in yard; there were snipers keeping watch, > and the women were restricted to structured activities, like emergency > drills, but he nonetheless insisted that they should be grateful. > Eventually, the women were also allowed to air out blankets in a vineyard > that the staff maintained. “We would hide grapes inside the bedding,” > Sabit recalled. “Then we would bring them back to our cell and secretly > eat them.” > There has been conflicting information about te destruction of mosques mentioned here. A story picked up by nearly every US and European media oulet. https://www.rfi.fr/en/international/20200928-china-denies-alleged-mass-destruction-of-mosques-in-xinjiang-region ( https://www.rfi.fr/en/international/20200928-china-denies-alleged-mass-destruction-of-mosques-in-xinjiang-region ) The New Yorker article tells quite an elaborate story. I'm going to reserve judgement on it,to see what pans out from it. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#7990): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/7990 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/81891550/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
