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Behind the Barbed Wire: China's Concentration Camps
Family Research Council ^ | October 18, 2019 | Tony Perkins

Posted on 10/20/2019 6:58:33 AM PDT by Twotone

"I had to be strong. Every day when I woke up, I thanked God that I was still alive." --Sayragul Sauytbay, Uyghur

There are harrowing stories -- and then there are the stories that seep deep into our bones. Sayragul Sauytbay's is the kind you don't forget. Her survival in China's concentration camps isn't just a miracle -- it's a warning that true darkness has settled over parts of the East. The most excruciating forms of torture are happening behind barbed wire walls that Beijing has tried hiding. And for the million people trapped inside, the only hope they have to escape their tormentors is international attention and pressure.

Kidnapped by state officials in the middle of the night, Sayragul remembers the terror of being taken -- her head covered in a black sack. Told she was being taken to a camp to "teach Chinese," she didn't know where she was -- only that she'd stepped into a living nightmare. Forbidden to cry or speak, she changed into prison clothes and watched her hair fall when her head was shaved. Cramped into a room with 20 others, she found out that her feet would be shackled from then on -- even in sleep. The punishment for even the smallest things, she says, was constant.

"Torture -- metal nails, fingernails pulled out, electric shocks..." David Stavrou, who tells her story, writes that the camp's commanders set aside a room to inflict the worst kind of pain imaginable. The inmates called it the "black room," because they were forbidden from mentioning it. "There were all kinds of tortures there. Some prisoners were hung on the wall and beaten with electrified truncheons. There were prisoners who were made to sit on a chair of nails.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: china; prisoncamps; uyghur
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1 posted on 10/20/2019 6:58:33 AM PDT by Twotone
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To: Twotone

LeBron and the NBA supports this.


2 posted on 10/20/2019 7:03:53 AM PDT by Eddie01
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To: Eddie01

Yes, this is an article worthy of sending to Google, the NBA, LeBron & the rest: “This is what you are supporting & you should be ashamed.”


3 posted on 10/20/2019 7:05:26 AM PDT by Twotone (While one may vote oneself into socialism one has to shoot oneself out of it.)
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To: Twotone
B-b-b-but, I thought Bad Orange Man was operating Concentration Camps like Auschwitz. Democrat Intellectual AOC said so


4 posted on 10/20/2019 7:13:23 AM PDT by MuttTheHoople
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To: Twotone

The real question is how would these people be treated if they DID NOT engage in Jihad...but then has that ever happened, anywhere?


5 posted on 10/20/2019 7:14:31 AM PDT by BobL (I eat at McDonald's and shop at Walmart - I just don't te Don'tll anyone.)
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To: Twotone

These camps are a trial run in China.

First Muslims, then Christians then political dissidents enmass.


6 posted on 10/20/2019 7:18:40 AM PDT by setter
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Any Muslim that engages in Jihad should be treated as a criminal or insurrectionist & put to death after a trial. These people are being brainwashed through horrific methods. While I don’t have much sympathy with Muslims in general, no one should have to endure such torture. If China doesn’t want these people they could simply eject them from the country.


7 posted on 10/20/2019 7:19:55 AM PDT by Twotone (While one may vote oneself into socialism one has to shoot oneself out of it.)
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To: Twotone

To teach Chinese is to be tortured? Just dang..


8 posted on 10/20/2019 7:21:27 AM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: American in Israel

Makes the Chinese Government just as evil as Muslims, and that is quite an accomplishment. Even being a Jihadi does not excuse torture. Execution perhaps. You do not defeat evil by being evil.


9 posted on 10/20/2019 7:25:49 AM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: Twotone

The guards wear NBA jerseys. But only the Commandant wears the LeBron jersey.


10 posted on 10/20/2019 7:26:40 AM PDT by allendale (.)
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To: American in Israel

Notice that the terrorist bombings ended after China took action. A lesson.


11 posted on 10/20/2019 7:29:44 AM PDT by Trumpisourlastchance
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To: setter

Yes, they see no difference between religions.


12 posted on 10/20/2019 7:30:31 AM PDT by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust the Plan.)
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To: Twotone

This is no different than the Nazis except we weren’t buying Nazi stuff.


13 posted on 10/20/2019 7:41:31 AM PDT by Dennis M.
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To: Dennis M.

AOC looks good in a pair of tight pants.


14 posted on 10/20/2019 8:12:09 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: Twotone

These camps are nothing new, the only thing new is the media demonstrating some feigned sympathy for the prisoner because Muslims have become a significant portion. Falun Gong and Christians and political dissidents have simply and conveniently been ignored for decades - their organs are sold all over the world and their remains incinerated.


15 posted on 10/20/2019 8:13:22 AM PDT by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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"I had to be strong. Every day when I woke up, I thanked God Allah that I was still alive." --Sayragul Sauytbay, Uyghur (aka moslem)

Fixed it.

16 posted on 10/20/2019 9:08:46 AM PDT by AlaskaErik
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To: Eddie01
LeBron and the NBA supports this.

I'm guessing China bought off most of Washington years ago... you can see it in all the rotten trade deals GIVEN to the Chinese... probably in exchange for cash or hiring the worthless sons of Washington's 'elites'...

17 posted on 10/20/2019 9:12:48 AM PDT by GOPJ (Elizabeth Warren IS Jussie Smollett - - Kevin D. Williamson - - https://i.imgur.com/rxRjNeD.jpg)
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To: Twotone

She sounds more like a moslem version of Greta Thunberg. I find her story hard to believe.


18 posted on 10/20/2019 9:12:57 AM PDT by AlaskaErik
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To: GOPJ
probably in exchange for cash
19 posted on 10/20/2019 9:46:30 AM PDT by Eddie01
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To: Eddie01
probably in exchange for cash

Yep, and since they write the 'laws' for their own advantage it's 'legal'...

Wonder what would happen in the real world if some American business exec went to China and gave a 40 minute 'speech' for a million bucks and in the 'speech' gave away his companies secrets? AND it was 'legal' because he had paid off some 'lawmakers'?

20 posted on 10/20/2019 10:06:55 AM PDT by GOPJ (Elizabeth Warren IS Jussie Smollett - - Kevin D. Williamson - - https://i.imgur.com/rxRjNeD.jpg)
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