Document: What Chinese Officials Told Children Whose Families Were Put in Camps

Document: What Chinese Officials Told Children Whose Families Were Put in Camps

2019-11-29 01:45:37

This document, part of 403 pages obtained by The New York Times, tells Chinese officials in Xinjiang how to explain the disappearance of parents and families detained in camps built to hold Muslim minorities. Anguished students asking about their parents were told they had nothing to worry about.

turn into a serious one, and it could prompt an even more serious illness, or even become life-threatening.

After you become infected by religious extremism and terrorist ideas, unless you quickly receive “transformation through education,” it will be very difficult to ensure that there won’t be a recurring impact that leaves you open to being incited and bewitched. Your thoughts can be restored to health as quickly as possible only with systematic, enclosed “inpatient treatment” in our schools that thoroughly eradicates religious extremism and terrorist ideas.

4. Since it’s just training, why can’t they come home?

It seems that you’re still misunderstanding how concentrated education is run. Usually, you would return home for winter or summer vacation without any problem. But if you were careless and caught an infectious virus like SARS, you’d have to undergo enclosed, isolated treatment, because it’s an infectious illness. If you weren’t thoroughly cured, as soon as you returned home you would infect your family with this virus, and your whole family would fall ill.7 The party and government would not be so irresponsible that they would let a member of your family go home before their illness was cured and thinking thoroughly transformed, a situation in which they would do harm to others. I don’t think that you would talk lightly about coming home either. Besides, it is a school after all, and each school has its own strict management. Just like you would not impetuously show up late or skip class or take a break at your school. If everyone did that, running a school would be a mess, and that would also deprive you of many opportunities to acquire knowledge.

5. Did they commit a crime? Will they be convicted?

They haven’t committed a crime and won’t be convicted.8 It is just that their thinking has been infected by unhealthy thoughts, and if they don’t quickly receive education and correction, they’ll become a major active threat to society and to your family. It’s very hard to totally eradicate viruses in thinking in just a short time. It needs to be dealt with like detox for drug addicts.