{"id":3228,"date":"2020-08-11T16:14:36","date_gmt":"2020-08-11T16:14:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=3228"},"modified":"2020-08-11T16:14:36","modified_gmt":"2020-08-11T16:14:36","slug":"5-real-steps-the-us-could-take-to-help-uighurs-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=3228","title":{"rendered":"5 real steps the US could take to help Uighurs in China"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;For several years now,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2020\/7\/28\/21333345\/uighurs-china-internment-camps-forced-labor-xinjiang\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">China has been systematically repressing its Uighur Muslim minority in the western province of Xinjiang<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 millions of Uighurs have been detained in \u201creeducation\u201d camps, where they are subjected to grievous human rights abuses including torture, sexual abuse,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/269b3de1af34e17c1941a514f78d764c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">forced sterilization<\/a>, family separation, and brainwashing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Those Uighurs in Xinjiang who manage to avoid the camps still live under oppressive government surveillance and draconian restrictions aimed at erasing their religious and cultural traditions.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2020\/7\/28\/21337081\/china-uighurs-muslims-trump-forced-labor-help\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2020\/7\/28\/21337081\/china-uighurs-muslims-trump-forced-labor-help<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;For several years now, China has been systematically repressing its Uighur Muslim minority in the western province of Xinjiang \u2014 millions of Uighurs have been detained in \u201creeducation\u201d camps, where they are subjected to grievous human rights abuses including torture, sexual abuse, forced sterilization, family separation, and brainwashing.<\/p>\n<p>Those Uighurs in Xinjiang who manage to avoid the camps still live under oppressive government surveillance and draconian restrictions aimed at erasing their religious and cultural traditions.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[89,959],"class_list":["post-3228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-china","tag-uighurs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3229,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3228\/revisions\/3229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}