Uyghur women are victims of sexual violence under the Chinese regime’s campaign of repression in Xinjiang, regardless of whether they are detained in an internment camp or not, according to Nury Turkel, vice chair of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom.
“They think all the sexual violence that they’re subjecting Uyghur women to, this mysterious drug that they’re giving, forced sterilization, collective punishment through gang rape, are the methods [through which] they are liberating the Uyghur women … just let that sink in,” Turkel recently told Epoch TV’s “American Thought Leaders” program.
According to estimates by researchers, the Chinese regime has detained more than one million Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities in internment camps in the far western region of Xinjiang, where they are subjected to torture, rape, forced labor, and political indoctrination. The U.S. government and other Western democracies have labeled Beijing’s actions a genocide….