Xinjiang: Over the years China has remodelled its tactics to wipe out the Uighur community. In recent years, the Beijing government has begun using
Xinjiang: Over the years China has remodelled its tactics to wipe out the Uighur community. In recent years, the Beijing government has begun using technology to conduct its own kind of genocide.
By putting Xinjiang under a grid management system, China is now able to control every aspect of Uighur’s life — religious, familial, cultural and social, the Foreign Policy reported.
Under the grid management system, the cities and villages are split into squares of about 500 people wherein each square has a police station that closely monitors residents by regularly scanning their identification cards, faces, DNA samples, fingerprints and cell phones.
“These methods are supplemented by a machine-operated system known as the Integrated Joint Operations Platform. The system uses machine learning to collect personal data from video surveillance, smartphones and other private records to generate lists for detention. Over a million Han Chinese watchers have been installed in Uighur households, rendering even intimate spaces subject to the government’s eye,” said Rayhan Asat and Yonah Diamond, the authors of the article in Foreign Policy.
According to the Genocide Convention, genocide can be defined as specific acts against members of a group with the intent to destroy that group in whole or in part. These acts include (a) killing; (b) causing serious bodily or mental harm; (c) deliberately inflicting conditions of life to bring about the group’s physical destruction; (d) imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group and (e) forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
