{"id":790,"date":"2022-03-26T16:34:03","date_gmt":"2022-03-26T13:34:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uyghurmovement.com\/?p=790"},"modified":"2022-04-03T22:17:17","modified_gmt":"2022-04-03T19:17:17","slug":"to-defend-mistreating-uyghurs-china-turns-to-fringe-u-s-source","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uyghurmovement.com\/?p=790","title":{"rendered":"To Defend Mistreating Uyghurs, China Turns to Fringe U.S. Source"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"hdr-container\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-title col-xs-12 col-md-10 pull-right\">\n<h1 class=\"title pg-title\">To Defend Mistreating Uyghurs, China Turns to Fringe U.S. Source<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-publishing-details col-xs-12 col-sm-12 col-md-2 pull-left\">\n<div class=\"publishing-details\">\n<div class=\"published\"><span class=\"date\"><time datetime=\"2022-03-23T19:28:55+00:00\">March 23, 2022<\/time><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"links\">\n<ul class=\"links__list 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Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region is fabricated by some western media outlets and a total farce.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"statement-source\"><a title=\"Source: Twitter account of Deng Xijun, Ambassador of the People\u2019s Republic of China to ASEAN, March 21, 2022\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/China2ASEAN\/status\/1505831580870201344\">Source: Twitter account of Deng Xijun, Ambassador of the People\u2019s Republic of China to ASEAN, March 21, 2022<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"verdict\">\n<div class=\"verdict-head\">\n<div class=\"title red\">\n<p>FALSE<\/p>\n<div class=\"intro\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-xs-12 col-sm-12 col-md-8 col-lg-8 pull-left bottom-offset content-offset\">\n<div id=\"article-content\" class=\"content-floated-wrap fb-quotable\">\n<div class=\"wsw\">\n<p>On March 21, the U.S. State Department\u00a0<a class=\"wsw__a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.state.gov\/promoting-accountability-for-transnational-repression-committed-by-peoples-republic-of-china-prc-officials\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">imposed<\/a>\u00a0visa restrictions on Chinese officials allegedly responsible for rights abuses, including the repression of \u201cethnic minority groups.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"wsw__embed\">\n<div class=\"infgraphicsAttach\">\n<div class=\"twitterSnippetProcessed\">\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" 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January 2021, the United States became the first country<a class=\"wsw__a\" href=\"https:\/\/2017-2021.state.gov\/determination-of-the-secretary-of-state-on-atrocities-in-xinjiang\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00a0to officially describe<\/a>\u00a0China\u2019s treatment of one such group \u2013 the Uyghur Muslim minority in China\u2019s northwestern Xinjiang region \u2013 as genocide.<\/p>\n<p>More than 1 million Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities have allegedly been subjected to mass internment, forced sterilization and labor, torture, religious repression and other forms of cultural erasure.<\/p>\n<p>On March 21, Deng Xijun, China\u2019s ambassador to the Association of Southeast Asian nations, shared a video clip from New China TV, the official YouTube Channel of China\u2019s Xinhua News Agency. The clip includes excerpts of an interview with William Jones, Washington bureau chief for the news magazine Executive Intelligence Review, in which he disputes any genocide in Xinjiang.<\/p>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"wsw__embed\">\n<div class=\"infgraphicsAttach\">\n<div class=\"twitterSnippetProcessed\">\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-1\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" 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data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe allegation of so-called genocide in China\u2019s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region is fabricated by some western media outlets and a total farce,\u201d the New China TV video summarizes Jones as saying.<\/p>\n<p>Jones repeats various bogus Beijing talking points, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>People in Xinjiang are still speaking and being educated in their own language(s).<\/li>\n<li>People in Xinjiang are still practicing their own religion.<\/li>\n<li>More mosques are being built in Xinjiang than anywhere else in the world.<\/li>\n<li>The population of Xinjiang is growing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Polygraph.info and other fact checkers have previously debunked many of these claims.<\/p>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"wsw__embed mediaReplacer externalMedia\">\n<div class=\" external-content-rendered\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.polygraph.info\/embed\/player\/0\/31313397.html?type=video&amp;platformType=responsive&amp;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Executive Intelligence Review was founded in 1974 by Lyndon LaRouche, a fringe U.S. political activist and failed presidential candidate often\u00a0<a class=\"wsw__a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/02\/13\/obituaries\/lyndon-larouche-dead.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">described as \u2018cultlike,\u2019<\/a>\u00a0who died in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018Journalists\u2019 associated with the LaRouche\u2019s news outlet, the Executive Intelligence Review, are regularly invited to Chinese government press conferences in Washington and are quoted extensively in Chinese state media, where they often parrot government propaganda,\u201d The Intelligencer, an offshoot of New York magazine,\u00a0<a class=\"wsw__a\" href=\"https:\/\/nymag.com\/intelligencer\/2019\/02\/political-cult-leader-lyndon-larouche-dies-at-96.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote<\/a>\u00a0in its February 2019 obituary of LaRouche.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[T]here\u2019s the dangerous possibility that Chinese officials and academics actually think the LaRouche movement is a serious Western group.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jones is also\u00a0<a class=\"wsw__a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cgtn.com\/opinions\/commentator\/william-jones.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a nonresident fellow<\/a>\u00a0at the Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies, a Chinese think tank.<\/p>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"wsw__embed\">\n<div class=\"infgraphicsAttach\">\n<div class=\"twitterSnippetProcessed\">\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-2\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" 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Jones\u2019 claims regarding Xinjiang are misleading, if not false. For example, while Uyghurs still communicate in their own language, China has tried to reduce its place in society.<\/p>\n<p>In June 2017, authorities in Xinjiang\u2019s Hotan prefecture, which is largely populated by Uyghurs, banned the use of the Uyghur language at schools in favor of Mandarin Chinese, \u201cin order to strengthen elementary and middle\/high school bilingual education,\u201d Radio Free Asia, a VOA sister news outlet,\u00a0<a class=\"wsw__a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rfa.org\/english\/news\/uyghur\/language-07282017143037.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thousands of Uyghur children\u00a0<a class=\"wsw__a\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/4f5f57213e3546ab9bd1be01dfb510d3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">have been placed<\/a>\u00a0in Mandarin-only orphanages and boarding schools, where children\u00a0<a class=\"wsw__a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2022\/02\/03\/1073793823\/china-uyghur-children-xinjiang-boarding-school\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">described<\/a>\u00a0being \u201chit with rulers\u201d if they spoke Uyghur.<\/p>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"wsw__embed mediaReplacer externalMedia\">\n<div class=\"c-sticky-container\">\n<div id=\"sp-2\" class=\"c-sticky-element c-sticky-element--3rd-party c-sticky-element--initialised\" data-sp_api=\"youtube\" data-sp_instance_id=\"2\">\n<div class=\" external-content-rendered\"><iframe id=\"player3018\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VRS5cdcsUOc?&amp;&amp;&amp;fs=1&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-youtube_id=\"1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>In December 2021, the U.K.\u2019s Guardian newspaper\u00a0<a class=\"wsw__a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2021\/dec\/10\/this-is-our-voice-the-uyghur-traditions-being-erased-by-chinas-cultural-crackdown\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>\u00a0that no Uyghur-language books had been published in China since 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Textbooks that taught classic poems and folk tales were banned, in what some experts said was a systematic effort to keep young Uyghurs from learning their language and culture.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a slow process of cultural re-engineering to reshape Uyghur culture from top to bottom \u2013 to eradicate most fundamentally the Uyghur language, or to erode it to the extent that among younger generations, it might potentially die out,\u201d James Leibold, a scholar of Chinese ethnic studies at LaTrobe University in Melbourne, Australia,\u00a0<a class=\"wsw__a\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/religion-ap-top-news-international-news-pa-state-wire-china-4f5f57213e3546ab9bd1be01dfb510d3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told The Associated Press<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wsw__embed\">\n<figure class=\"media-image js-media-expand js-media-expand--ready\">\n<div class=\"img-wrap\">\n<div class=\"thumb\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" enhanced\" src=\"https:\/\/gdb.polygraph.info\/05f60000-0a00-0242-4bab-08d9a82bab41_w650_r0_s.jpg\" alt=\"An ethnic Uyghur woman walks in front of a giant screen with a picture of Chinese President Xi Jinping in the main city square in Kashgar on September 6, 2018. (Thomas Peter\/Reuters)\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">An ethnic Uyghur woman walks in front of a giant screen with a picture of Chinese President Xi Jinping in the main city square in Kashgar on September 6, 2018. (Thomas Peter\/Reuters)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>The year 2017 marked a turning point both in the crackdown on language education and repression in Xinjiang, with reports of mass internment camps, religious and cultural repression and other systematic rights abuses. And while Jones claims Xinjiang\u2019s Uyghur population has been growing,\u00a0<a class=\"wsw__a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rfa.org\/english\/news\/uyghur\/population-white-paper-09302021162942.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2017 saw a decline<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Chinese authorities\u00a0<a class=\"wsw__a\" href=\"http:\/\/www.xinhuanet.com\/english\/2021-06\/14\/c_1310006836.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">claim<\/a>\u00a0Xinjiang\u2019s population grew 18.5 percent between 2010 and 2020. But Rian Thum, a historian of Islam in China and the Uyghurs at the U.K.\u2019s University of Manchester, says that time frame does not count what happened from 2017 onward, when \u201cUyghur births were brutally suppressed.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"wsw__embed\">\n<div class=\"infgraphicsAttach\">\n<div class=\"twitterSnippetProcessed\">\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-3\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-3&amp;features=eyJ0ZndfZXhwZXJpbWVudHNfY29va2llX2V4cGlyYXRpb24iOnsiYnVja2V0IjoxMjA5NjAwLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X2hvcml6b25fdHdlZXRfZW1iZWRfOTU1NSI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJodGUiLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X3NrZWxldG9uX2xvYWRpbmdfMTMzOTgiOnsiYnVja2V0IjoiY3RhIiwidmVyc2lvbiI6bnVsbH0sInRmd19zcGFjZV9jYXJkIjp7ImJ1Y2tldCI6Im9mZiIsInZlcnNpb24iOm51bGx9fQ%3D%3D&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1442243229076893697&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.polygraph.info%2Fa%2Ffact-check-uyghur-genocide-larouche-movement%2F31767209.html&amp;sessionId=7aad22fd29afdb51d2e4fdf3af652a6f5669be52&amp;siteScreenName=SomeAccount&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=2582c61%3A1645036219416&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1442243229076893697\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s telling that they won&#8217;t tell us what the *current* population growth rate for Uyghurs is. How did 2020 compare to 2019? This would seem to b[e] crucial data for a state looking to convince the world that it is not preventing births in an indigenous group,\u201d he tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>In 2015, the year the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) government began linking population growth to \u201creligious extremism,\u201d natural population growth decreased across all Chinese minority regions, according to Adrian Zenz, a scholar on the People\u2019s Republic of China who has reported extensively on Xinjiang.<\/p>\n<p>In\u00a0<a class=\"wsw__a\" href=\"https:\/\/jamestown.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Zenz-Internment-Sterilizations-and-IUDs-UPDATED-July-21-Rev2.pdf?x13507\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">his research paper<\/a>, \u201cSterilizations, IUDs, and Mandatory Birth Control: The CCP\u2019s Campaign to Suppress Uighur Birthrates in Xinjiang,\u201d Zenz wrote that in 2010, nine of the top 10 Chinese counties with the highest natural population growth rates \u2014 as much as five times the national average \u2014 had large Uyghur or Kyrgyz populations.<\/p>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"wsw__embed mediaReplacer externalMedia\">\n<div class=\"c-sticky-container\">\n<div id=\"sp-3\" class=\"c-sticky-element c-sticky-element--3rd-party c-sticky-element--initialised\" data-sp_api=\"youtube\" data-sp_instance_id=\"3\">\n<div class=\" external-content-rendered\"><iframe id=\"player311\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Pm4VIoFAyxE?&amp;&amp;&amp;fs=1&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-youtube_id=\"2\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cNatural population growth in Xinjiang has declined dramatically; growth rates fell by 84 percent in the two largest Uyghur prefectures between 2015 and 2018, and declined further in several minority regions in 2019,\u201d Zenz wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Zenz linked that population growth decline to a Chinese government campaign to cut Uyghur and other ethnic minority birth rates through measures that included pregnancy checks, forced intrauterine devices, sterilization, abortions and extrajudicial internment for birth control violations.<\/p>\n<p>According to Zenz, this proves that Beijing is carrying out a campaign of genocide under the U.N. Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, which states that genocide includes \u201cimposing measures intended to prevent births within the group.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"wsw__embed\">\n<div class=\"infgraphicsAttach\">\n<div class=\"twitterSnippetProcessed\">\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-4\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-4&amp;features=eyJ0ZndfZXhwZXJpbWVudHNfY29va2llX2V4cGlyYXRpb24iOnsiYnVja2V0IjoxMjA5NjAwLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X2hvcml6b25fdHdlZXRfZW1iZWRfOTU1NSI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJodGUiLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X3NrZWxldG9uX2xvYWRpbmdfMTMzOTgiOnsiYnVja2V0IjoiY3RhIiwidmVyc2lvbiI6bnVsbH0sInRmd19zcGFjZV9jYXJkIjp7ImJ1Y2tldCI6Im9mZiIsInZlcnNpb24iOm51bGx9fQ%3D%3D&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1465409699575042050&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.polygraph.info%2Fa%2Ffact-check-uyghur-genocide-larouche-movement%2F31767209.html&amp;sessionId=7aad22fd29afdb51d2e4fdf3af652a6f5669be52&amp;siteScreenName=SomeAccount&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=2582c61%3A1645036219416&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1465409699575042050\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe case for demographic genocide and the atrocity is of course based on dramatic [population] declines starting in 2017, draconian sterilization targets for 2019, plus punishing birth control violations with internment, a policy that started in 2018,\u201d\u00a0<a class=\"wsw__a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.polygraph.info\/a\/china-canada-uighur-genocide\/30955370.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Zenz told Polygraph.info\u00a0<\/a>in November 2020. \u201cAlso, a near-zero birth rate target for Kizilsu prefecture for 2020.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chinese state media accuse Zenz, whose research is widely cited in Western media reports, of being \u201ca right-wing Christian\u201d seeking to slander the CCP.<\/p>\n<p>But publicly available information supports his claims.<\/p>\n<p>According to the China Statistical Yearbook 2020, compiled by China\u2019s National Bureau of Statistics,\u00a0<a class=\"wsw__a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/east-asia-pacific_voa-news-china_chinese-statistics-reveal-plummeting-births-xinjiang-during\/6203821.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Xinjiang\u2019s natural population growth rate<\/a>\u00a0fell from 11.4 per 1,000 in 2017 to 3.7 per 1,000 in 2019. That 68 percent decline far exceeded the national average.<\/p>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"wsw__embed\">\n<div class=\"infgraphicsAttach\">\n<div class=\"twitterSnippetProcessed\">\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-5\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-5&amp;features=eyJ0ZndfZXhwZXJpbWVudHNfY29va2llX2V4cGlyYXRpb24iOnsiYnVja2V0IjoxMjA5NjAwLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X2hvcml6b25fdHdlZXRfZW1iZWRfOTU1NSI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJodGUiLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X3NrZWxldG9uX2xvYWRpbmdfMTMzOTgiOnsiYnVja2V0IjoiY3RhIiwidmVyc2lvbiI6bnVsbH0sInRmd19zcGFjZV9jYXJkIjp7ImJ1Y2tldCI6Im9mZiIsInZlcnNpb24iOm51bGx9fQ%3D%3D&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1376058975813128196&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.polygraph.info%2Fa%2Ffact-check-uyghur-genocide-larouche-movement%2F31767209.html&amp;sessionId=7aad22fd29afdb51d2e4fdf3af652a6f5669be52&amp;siteScreenName=SomeAccount&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=2582c61%3A1645036219416&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1376058975813128196\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Likewise, while China claims Xinjiang has more mosques per capita than many Muslim countries, there is\u00a0<a class=\"wsw__a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.polygraph.info\/a\/fact-check-mosque-destruction-xinjiang-china\/31238038.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">much evidence<\/a>\u00a0China\u2019s government has destroyed thousands of mosques and other religious sites in the region.<\/p>\n<p>Beijing\u2019s broader efforts to curtail Uyghur religious and social life have also been documented.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"wsw__a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rfa.org\/english\/news\/uyghur\/furniture-01092020165529.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">These include<\/a>\u00a0the destruction of traditional Uyghur architectural and design elements and the replacement of home furnishings with more \u201csinicized\u201d household items.<\/p>\n<p>Uyghurs have reportedly been compelled to eat pork and drink alcohol, which are forbidden by Islam. In October 2020, Chinese authorities\u00a0<a class=\"wsw__a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/society\/article\/3105694\/beijing-bans-personal-pilgrimages-mecca-chinese-muslims\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reportedly banned<\/a>\u00a0Muslim believers from making private pilgrimages to Mecca, one of the five pillars of Islam.<\/p>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"wsw__embed mediaReplacer externalMedia\">\n<div class=\" external-content-rendered\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.polygraph.info\/embed\/player\/0\/31241316.html?type=video&amp;platformType=responsive&amp;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Although Chinese state media have publicized scenes of public dancing to mark Eid al-Fitr \u2013 the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan \u2013 others observers claim such events\u00a0<a class=\"wsw__a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.polygraph.info\/a\/fact-check-xinjiang-eid-staged-dance\/31265555.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">were staged<\/a>. Celebratory house visits to mark the occasion were reportedly banned.<\/p>\n<p>State-directed, public displays of dancing, versus organic celebrations, fit into what\u00a0<a class=\"wsw__a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2021\/dec\/10\/this-is-our-voice-the-uyghur-traditions-being-erased-by-chinas-cultural-crackdown\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">one expert called<\/a>\u00a0\u201cexoticized song-and-dance spectacles that cater to the growing national tourism industry.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"wsw__embed mediaReplacer externalMedia\">\n<div class=\" external-content-rendered\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.polygraph.info\/embed\/player\/0\/31271490.html?type=video&amp;platformType=responsive&amp;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>On March 8, Amnesty International and almost 200 other rights organizations\u00a0<a class=\"wsw__a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amnesty.org\/en\/latest\/news\/2022\/03\/un-high-commissioner-must-release-report-on-chinas-crimes-against-humanity-in-xinjiang\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sent an open letter\u00a0<\/a>to the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights urging her to release a \u201clong-awaited report on the Chinese government\u2019s crimes against humanity in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region without further delay.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Polygraph.info reached out to Jones for comment. 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