Vocational Education and Training Centers, Chinese re-education camps, such as the ones in Xinjiang, China are a place where dissenters are sent to relearn their place in Chinese society.
Chinese re-education camps are legal in China, and legitimized by the corruption of the Chinese Communist Party who argue for the importance to fight “extremism”.
The government uses the term vocational training and education camps as a way to soften their real purpose as human repression centers. While they were at one point purposed for petty criminals through the practice of Re-education Through Labor, the Chinese aggressively use them now to target the Uyghur muslim population.
Prisoners are told several things including:
- There is no God. This is in line with the Chinese Communist Party rhetoric which eschews all religions. Marxism does not allow religion, it was once called “the opiates of the masses.”
Re-education Through Labor was abolished in November of 2013 by the Chinese government.
See the image below of Workers in the Shayang Re-education Through Labor camp.
Uyghur Muslims In China
Uyghurs are an ethnic Turkic-speaking minority of Northwest China. The Chinese government have been targeting them for indoctrination through re-education camps since 2017. They claim it is part of an effort to combat muslim extremism.
Uyghur children are separated from their parents in these camps and forced to learn Mandarin. They are not allowed to practice their religion.
The camps have been disparaged by the free nations of the world. Specifically the U.S. senate passed the Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act on 11 September 2019.
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