Activist spoke of unending atrocities done by China to Uyghur's women and children

KUALA LUMPUR - The women and children of Uyghur have been having it worst since China cracked down on them way back in 2016 -- enduring atrocious abuses and abortions and also forced sterilisation.

This heart-rending reminder was spoken again today by a Uyghur activist Rushan Abbas at a special talk on Women and Children of Uyghur: The Untold Stories organized by Muslim Youth Movement of Malaysia women’s wing (Helwa Abim).

“They (victims) cannot even rest and have to take turns to sleep. None of them have committed any crime.

“The reason they are taken to those camps and face these horrendous situations is because they pray; they fast during Ramadan and refused to eat pork,” she told the audience.

Every aspect of Islamic practices, Rushan stressed, are criminalised and outlawed at the camps.

“The Chinese government claims the Uyghurs are radicalised Muslims and that China is taking proper actions to exterminate the group for the national security issues.

“That is the rhetoric that they are talking about. What national security threats does a 73-year old woman pose when she was taken to the camp simply because she prayed at home?” she asked.

Rushan’s pain was also revealed to be personal as she disclosed that her sister, Gulshan, was among those held hostage in the camp since September 2018.

“If we don’t take action now, this is our last chance and if we don’t hold the Chinese Communist Regime accountable now, then it will be our children and grandchildren who will pay for the consequences,” she called.

Echoing Rushan’s view on the horrendous actions of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) government was Helwa Abim vice-president Fatin Nur Majdina Nordin, with the latter deeming it to have worsened over the years.

“The pressure and oppression of the CCP regime against the Muslim Uyghur ethnic are worsening and insufferable.

“Spies of the government are sent to reside in each house of the Uyghur ethnic in Xinjiang; and even sleep in the same bed with the family,” she remarked.

The sufferings and oppressions faced by those families and millions of other Uyghur ethnic, added Fatin, “is no mere propaganda.”