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Tuesday, September 22, 2020 7:54:25 PM
China expands mass labour program to Tibet, forcing farmers into factories
"China Uighurs 'moved into factory forced labour' for foreign brands
"Top brands accused of using forced Chinese labour"
Yep, unrestrained capitalism think sweat shops. Authoritarian regimes think forced labor. On opening yours a first thought was, umm, China must be reacting a bit to the international pressure forced on them re their detention camps. Multi-national companies, and most smaller firms, get their products from the cheapest sources. Then people and organizations and governments who believe human rights should be a factor in the whole get involved. It's the way the world has worked since forever. Trump, and his GOP, wouldn't fit into the group of these most interested in promoting human rights and minimizing exploitation."
Tibetan farmers harvest highland barley. Source: Getty Images
More than 500,000 workers in rural Tibet have been reportedly forced into labour camps,
echoing a similar Chinese Government program in the western Xinjiang region.
Updated Updated 12 hours ago
China is forcing Tibetan farmers and herders into labour programs similar to those used in the troubled Xinjiang region .. https://www.sbs.com.au/news/more-than-80-000-uighurs-sent-to-work-in-factories-across-china-report-finds , a US research institute has alleged.
The moves risk a "loss of cultural heritage" in the politically sensitive region, the group's report warned on Tuesday.
Authorities in Tibet, a predominantly Buddhist area in China's far west, have touted the scheme - which puts rural workers to task in factories - as a tool for poverty alleviation .. https://www.sbs.com.au/news/international-coalition-calls-on-global-fashion-industry-to-end-reliance-on-uighur-forced-labor .
A "vocational skills education training service center" in the Chinese Xinjiang region. AAP
They say this is in line with President Xi Jinping's goal of eradicating extreme poverty by the end of 2020.
But researchers at the Jamestown Foundation said "militarised vocational training" is also a form of ideological indoctrination and assimilation towards ethnic Tibetans, who make up 90 per cent of the remote border region's population.
It said more than 500,000 rural labourers - mainly herders and subsistence farmers - were trained in the first seven months of 2020, with each county assigned quotas.
It didn't cite any comparable figures for previous years.
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More than 80,000 Uighurs sent to work in factories across China, report finds
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/more-than-80-000-uighurs-sent-to-work-in-factories-across-china-report-finds
The training schemes aim to instil "work discipline, Chinese language and work ethics", according to a 2019 Chinese government action plan quoted in the report.
A 2018 report by the Nagqu city government also states that the purpose of the labour transfer scheme is to "effectively eliminate lazy people".
Insert: We've all heard that sort of conservative, authoritarian
thinking from GOP figures and Trump's administration officials too.
Companies that fulfil the hiring quota for workers are offered up to 500,000 yuan (about $102,000), the report said, while herders and farmers are also encouraged by the scheme to hand over their livestock and land to large state-run cooperatives.
"In the context of Beijing’s increasingly assimilatory ethnic minority policy, it is likely that these policies will promote a long-term loss of linguistic, cultural and spiritual heritage," wrote the report's author Adrian Zenz, a researcher at the US-based Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation.
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'Deeply disturbing': Australia condemns new video showing Uighur mistreatment
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/deeply-disturbing-australia-condemns-new-video-showing-uighur-mistreatment
Nearly 50,000 people have been transferred to other areas of Tibet, and more than 3,000 sent to other parts of China, the report said.
The report claims there are similarities with labour schemes in the Xinjiang region, targeting the Uighur ethnic minority.
The scale of the Tibetan work scheme is still dwarfed by that of Xinjiang - which trained an average of 1.29 million workers each year between 2014 and 2019, according to a government white paper released last week.
Australia, the European Union and the United States have raised concerns this year over China's treatment of minorities in the Himalayan region.
READ MORE
International coalition calls on global fashion industry to end reliance on Uighur forced labor
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/international-coalition-calls-on-global-fashion-industry-to-end-reliance-on-uighur-forced-labor
Beijing says its troops "peacefully liberated" Tibet in 1951, but many exiled Tibetans accuse the central government of religious repression and eroding their culture.
Foreign journalists have been largely barred from visiting the region since 2008, making it difficult to independently investigate reports from researchers and rights groups.
Source AFP - SBS
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/china-expands-mass-labour-program-to-tibet-forcing-farmers-into-factories
"China Uighurs 'moved into factory forced labour' for foreign brands
"Top brands accused of using forced Chinese labour"
Yep, unrestrained capitalism think sweat shops. Authoritarian regimes think forced labor. On opening yours a first thought was, umm, China must be reacting a bit to the international pressure forced on them re their detention camps. Multi-national companies, and most smaller firms, get their products from the cheapest sources. Then people and organizations and governments who believe human rights should be a factor in the whole get involved. It's the way the world has worked since forever. Trump, and his GOP, wouldn't fit into the group of these most interested in promoting human rights and minimizing exploitation."
Tibetan farmers harvest highland barley. Source: Getty Images
More than 500,000 workers in rural Tibet have been reportedly forced into labour camps,
echoing a similar Chinese Government program in the western Xinjiang region.
Updated Updated 12 hours ago
China is forcing Tibetan farmers and herders into labour programs similar to those used in the troubled Xinjiang region .. https://www.sbs.com.au/news/more-than-80-000-uighurs-sent-to-work-in-factories-across-china-report-finds , a US research institute has alleged.
The moves risk a "loss of cultural heritage" in the politically sensitive region, the group's report warned on Tuesday.
Authorities in Tibet, a predominantly Buddhist area in China's far west, have touted the scheme - which puts rural workers to task in factories - as a tool for poverty alleviation .. https://www.sbs.com.au/news/international-coalition-calls-on-global-fashion-industry-to-end-reliance-on-uighur-forced-labor .
A "vocational skills education training service center" in the Chinese Xinjiang region. AAP
They say this is in line with President Xi Jinping's goal of eradicating extreme poverty by the end of 2020.
But researchers at the Jamestown Foundation said "militarised vocational training" is also a form of ideological indoctrination and assimilation towards ethnic Tibetans, who make up 90 per cent of the remote border region's population.
It said more than 500,000 rural labourers - mainly herders and subsistence farmers - were trained in the first seven months of 2020, with each county assigned quotas.
It didn't cite any comparable figures for previous years.
READ MORE
More than 80,000 Uighurs sent to work in factories across China, report finds
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/more-than-80-000-uighurs-sent-to-work-in-factories-across-china-report-finds
The training schemes aim to instil "work discipline, Chinese language and work ethics", according to a 2019 Chinese government action plan quoted in the report.
A 2018 report by the Nagqu city government also states that the purpose of the labour transfer scheme is to "effectively eliminate lazy people".
Insert: We've all heard that sort of conservative, authoritarian
thinking from GOP figures and Trump's administration officials too.
Companies that fulfil the hiring quota for workers are offered up to 500,000 yuan (about $102,000), the report said, while herders and farmers are also encouraged by the scheme to hand over their livestock and land to large state-run cooperatives.
"In the context of Beijing’s increasingly assimilatory ethnic minority policy, it is likely that these policies will promote a long-term loss of linguistic, cultural and spiritual heritage," wrote the report's author Adrian Zenz, a researcher at the US-based Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation.
READ MORE
'Deeply disturbing': Australia condemns new video showing Uighur mistreatment
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/deeply-disturbing-australia-condemns-new-video-showing-uighur-mistreatment
Nearly 50,000 people have been transferred to other areas of Tibet, and more than 3,000 sent to other parts of China, the report said.
The report claims there are similarities with labour schemes in the Xinjiang region, targeting the Uighur ethnic minority.
The scale of the Tibetan work scheme is still dwarfed by that of Xinjiang - which trained an average of 1.29 million workers each year between 2014 and 2019, according to a government white paper released last week.
Australia, the European Union and the United States have raised concerns this year over China's treatment of minorities in the Himalayan region.
READ MORE
International coalition calls on global fashion industry to end reliance on Uighur forced labor
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/international-coalition-calls-on-global-fashion-industry-to-end-reliance-on-uighur-forced-labor
Beijing says its troops "peacefully liberated" Tibet in 1951, but many exiled Tibetans accuse the central government of religious repression and eroding their culture.
Foreign journalists have been largely barred from visiting the region since 2008, making it difficult to independently investigate reports from researchers and rights groups.
Source AFP - SBS
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/china-expands-mass-labour-program-to-tibet-forcing-farmers-into-factories
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