China News Service, Beijing, March 23 (Li Jingze) The "Amnesty International" report recently stated that China sent young Uyghur children to orphanages and enforced the "separation of flesh and blood" policy for Uyghur families.
In response, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying said at a regular press conference on the 23rd that when these people fabricated lies, they obviously took the wrong map.
"The enforcement of the so-called'separation of flesh and blood' did not happen in Xinjiang, China, but in the United States."
A reporter asked questions. According to reports, "Amnesty International" issued a report saying that China sent young Uyghur children to orphanages and enforced a "separation of flesh and blood" policy for Uyghur families.
Call on China to release all Uyghur children detained in orphanages without the consent of their families.
Some American media reported that Xinjiang has created "intergenerational separation" through boarding schools. What's China's response to this?
"I think everyone is very clear about what organization Amnesty International is." Hua Chunying said that when these people fabricated lies, they obviously took the wrong map.
"The enforcement of the so-called'separation of flesh and blood' did not happen in Xinjiang, China, but in the United States."
Hua Chunying pointed out that the United States began to implement an assimilation policy for Indians as early as the 19th century, using Indian boarding schools to assimilate Indian children and youth into European and American cultures. Young children in boarding schools were forced to abandon their Native Americans. For his identity and culture, he was forced to use European names, was forbidden to speak indigenous languages, and was forced to be separated from his family.
"In recent years, everyone has also known how the U.S. government treats immigrant children. For example, their zero-tolerance immigration policy has caused a large number of children to be separated from their parents, brothers and sisters."
Hua Chunying said that US media reports said that as of March 20 this year, the number of unaccompanied minor illegal immigrants in the United States has reached more than 15,000 at the US-Mexico border.
Since 2018, 24 immigrants, including 7 children, have died while in custody in U.S. border shelters.
"As for Xinjiang, I think anyone with a bit of common sense knows that the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region has a vast territory, accounting for 1/6 of China's area. Its area is equivalent to 3 France, nearly 5 Germany, and nearly 7 Britain. The combined area of France and Germany is 1.5 times larger." Hua Chunying said, in such a large geographical area, children go to school, and the distance between villages and towns is very long. It is very inconvenient for students to go to school. Parents pick up and drop off their children. Of course, going to and from school is also very difficult and burdensome, especially for children in remote farming and pastoral areas.
She pointed out that in order to solve this problem, the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region government has listed the construction of boarding schools as an important part of the standardization of compulsory education schools and the balanced development of compulsory education, coordinating the relationship between nearby enrollment and centralized schooling, and effectively solving children in remote agricultural and pastoral areas. The problem of going to school will also help improve the modernization of the education of ethnic minority primary and secondary schools, and promote exchanges and contacts among all ethnic groups in Xinjiang.
“Whether students live or not is completely voluntarily chosen by the students themselves and their parents. The school has never restricted the contact between students and their parents. Students will go home on weekends, holidays, winter and summer vacations, and they can always contact their parents to ask for leave during the school. Go home. There is no essential difference between these schools and the boarding schools currently opened in other parts of China and other countries in the world." Hua Chunying pointed out.
"There are also boarding schools in Beijing, because Beijing is very big and commuting to get off work is not easy. We know that there are boarding schools in the UK, and the boarding schools in the UK are very famous. If there is a difference, the boarding schools in the UK are famous They are expensive, and these boarding schools in Xinjiang are geared towards ordinary children.” Hua Chunying said.
Hua Chunying pointed out that it is very sinister for some anti-China forces to spread so-called "separation of flesh and blood" and lie about the fact that these children go to school and receive normal education.
"The reporter from the Beijing branch of CNN asked us a question-probably they saw a family in Xinjiang. This Uyghur couple in Xinjiang went to Italy in 2016. Now the couple and their three children live in Italy. But they left their 4 children in Xinjiang before going abroad in 2016, so CNN reporters wanted to visit them in Xinjiang. When I saw this issue, I was curious, not some Western media, politicians and scholars accusing China of engaging in Xinjiang. Are'forced sterilization' and'genocide'? If it is true, how could the couple have seven children? If we prohibit foreigners from going to Xinjiang, how can they visit them?"
Hua Chunying emphasized that lying is definitely not something to be proud of, it is a very shameful thing.
"We hope that relevant institutions and personnel can remove their prejudice against China, stop spreading false information, and be able to view and report on China in a true, objective and fair manner." (End)