Yes….
You read that right….
A million people we are talking about held because of their religious beliefs….
Didn’t the world walk away from this almost 75 years ago ?
One million Muslims are being held right now in Chinese internment camps, according to estimates cited by the UN and U.S. officials. Former inmates—most of whom are Uighurs, a largely Muslim ethnic minority—have told reporters that over the course of an indoctrination process lasting several months, they were forced to renounce Islam, criticize their own Islamic beliefs and those of fellow inmates, and recite Communist Party propaganda songs for hours each day. There are media reports of inmates being forced to eat pork and drink alcohol, which are forbidden to Muslims, as well as reports of torture and death.
The sheer scale of the internment camp system, which according to The Wall Street Journal has doubled in China’s northwestern Xinjiang region just within the last year, is mindboggling. The U.S. Congressional-Executive Commission on Chinadescribes it as “the largest mass incarceration of a minority population in the world today.” Beijing began by targeting Uighur extremists, but now even benign manifestations of Muslim identity—like growing a long beard—can get a Uighur sent to a camp, the Journal noted. Earlier this month, when a UN panel confronted a senior Chinese official about the camps, he said there are “no such things as reeducation centers,” even though government documents refer to the facilities that way. Instead, he claimed they’re just vocational schools for criminals….
There was a point in most of our lives,, James, when we learned that the two words were not just different spellings but had different meanings. The word you need in the headline is not interment (burial), bu internment (detention).
Correction made….
Thanks as always DSD….
You don’t know how very much I hate to say (write) this, James, but you left off the initial I in Internment.
Thanks DSD
Maybe the whole concept is a fight to deal with in words?