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Home»News»Coronavirus: Muslim charity visits Uyghurs in exile

Coronavirus: Muslim charity visits Uyghurs in exile

News 21/03/2020No Comments4 Mins ReadBy Hamza Saleem

Members of Human Aid UK travelled to Turkey earlier this month to meet Muslim families originally from Uyghur who escaped to Istanbul to rebuild their lives.

The situation that many Muslim Uyghurs have faced in Chinese concentration camps has been documented for many months without much intervention from Muslim countries.

According to UN experts and activists, China is holding over one million people, particularly Uyghur Muslims, in detention centres. However, China describes these camps as “re-education camps” aiming to “stamp out ‘extremism’ and give [Uyghur Muslims] new skills.”

The Uyghur Muslims that are not detained and hurled into concentration camps and are instead faced with scrutiny from the security forces. This includes but is not limited to armed checkpoints, ID cards, and facial recognition cameras.


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China is also said to have also deployed over a million spies to closely monitor the activity of Uyghur Muslims. According to a Communist party officer, the state agents visit Uyghur households and during their visits they work, eat, and frequently share a bed with their “hosts”.

The severity of their state has caused Uyghurs to migrate to the Turkish capital, where Human Aid UK spoke to them in order to gauge their thoughts on the global pandemic caused by the coronavirus. [1]

The interviews were conducted by Dr Zeeshan Siddiqui, a GP and board member of Human Aid UK, and Sohidul Choudhury, the Director of Operations for the charity. The personal stories were given consent to be shared by the Uyghurs provided that their identities were concealed for the protection of themselves and their loved ones.

Many men were found to either still be missing or imprisoned in the ‘re-education’ camps. Their whereabouts are unknown and all remaining communication with them has been blocked due to the ramifications to their loved ones. The majority of the ‘bread winners’ of the Uyghur families were found to be women, who were providing for an average of three to five children.

Human Aid UK also met a 25-year-old graduate who had memorised the Qur’ān. He had not heard from any of his three sisters or one brother for three years.

The interviewers made mention of two traits that were evident in the Uyghur Muslims – hospitality and resilience. They were very eager to welcome the team from London into their homes, serving them food and tea.

The charity expressed their solidarity with the plight of the Uyghurs and vowed to continue supporting the them and their cause by reminding them that their voices were not falling on deaf ears in the West.

Despite their previous struggles and torment, the outbreak of COVID-19 had brought the world to a halt. One of the Uyghurs proclaimed of the irony that whilst his people were being detained by force into the ‘re-education’ camps, other regions across China were forcing people into quarantine.

Dr Siddiqui said:

“Most countries have started to self-quarantine, seal their borders, and implement distancing. But what about the million or more Uyghurs who are left languishing in these camps? They have been there for years, while we are debating self-quarantine for a month or two. If the virus has spread to the camps, there could be an alarming fatality rate due to the lack of adequate healthcare among other things.”

As well as the treatment of Uyghurs, in light of the coronavirus crisis, members of the Uyghur community have now been sounding the alarm over concerns of the spread of the deadly virus inside Chinese concentration camps across the country.

With at least 1 million Muslim men and women in detention camps, together with 500,000 children in similar centres, concerns over the treatment of the minority group continue to rise, especially in light of the coronavirus. However, the Communist Party stooped to a new low by forcing Uyghurs to work in factories which had been closed due to the epidemic.

Amidst the global ordeal, the Uyghurs said they supplicate to Allah to protect their Uyghur brothers and sisters, and the Muslims in general all over the world.

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[1] https://www.human-aid.org/human-aid-uk-visit-the-uyghurs-in-exile-their-stories-and-thoughts-on-the-coronavirus/

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