Posted on 05/15/2021 7:27:40 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
British researchers say the world’s production of solar panels is being fueled by forced labor from Uyghur Muslims in the Chinese province of Xinjiang.
An investigation by Sheffield Hallam University says some 45 percent of the world’s supply of a key component in the panels—polysilicon—comes from Xinjiang and is obtained through a vast system of coercion involving the Uyghur ethnic minority.
In Broad Daylight, the report from the university’s Helena Kennedy Center for International Justice, says the world’s four biggest panel manufacturers use polysilicon tainted by forced labor, and urges producers to source the substance from elsewhere.
It cited an official Chinese government report published in November which documented the “placement” of 2.6 million “minoritized” citizens in jobs in farms and factories in Xinjiang and elsewhere in the country through state-sponsored “surplus labor” and “labor transfer” initiatives.
“The (Chinese) government claims that these programs are in accordance with PRC (People’s Republic of China) law and that workers are engaged voluntarily, in a concerted government-supported effort to alleviate poverty,” the report says.
“However, significant evidence—largely drawn from government and corporate sources—reveals that labor transfers are deployed in the Uyghur Region within an environment of unprecedented coercion, undergirded by the constant threat of re-education and internment.
“Many indigenous workers are unable to refuse or walk away from these jobs, and thus the programs are tantamount to forcible transfer of populations and enslavement.”
The report said the issue was exacerbated by the fact 95 percent of all solar modules relied on solar-grade polysilicon, which is extracted from mined quartz.
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Have they renounced Islamic Cult?
I have no issue with China’s control of those muslim Turks.......they can always go to Turkey.
Slave labor camps.
Another similarity between the 20th Century Nazis and the 21st Century CCP.
Uyghurs integrate very nicely with Turkey. They should go there.
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They’re not being allowed to leave the country. Those who are smuggled out tend to wind up leaving family behind, at which point the family (usually kids or elderly relatives) is taken by the government and held somewhere, and they’re normally not heard from again.
No matter what they do, they’re screwed. They put their family in danger if they flee, which is worse to most than being put in danger themselves, so they stay and endure. At least they can try to keep tabs on their family that way.
I know that Muslims are generally viewed with disdain, but they’re Human beings. Misled, no doubt, but it’s really depressing to see anyone respond or imply that, “I’m fine with this” regarding this treatment of ANYONE. Between physical and psychological abuse, rape, forced sterilization and forced abortions, and enslavement, it’s totally inhumane.
Think of Schindler shells. Maybe the slave laborers are sabotaging the work.
Thank you for this reply
Uyghurs are unable to leave.
No doubt many of them would love to do so. The Chinese Communist Party does not allow that. They’re held prisoner by a totalitarian state that requires everyone to do, speak, and think only as the state demands. And more recently, they’re rounded up and sent to what effectively amount to death camps.
Who’s prices?
Uyghurs can leave? Where would they go if they could? I absolutely do not want to welcome them into the United States, we do not need more Islamic culture members entering the US, we have enough problem with illegal aliens and all already to begin with. Could they go to Turkey, maybe Africa?
I said they are unable to leave.
Not my problem, not our (the US) problem.
Seems you’re on the wrong thread if it’s not of interest to you.
So, who’s told Biden?
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