Unconscionable Horror

As has been well-publicized, corporations like Nike and the NBA are cozy with Communist China and stars like LeBron James refuse to criticize the Chinese government that is a cash cow for his employers and himself.

Not too long ago our liberal media, which never sees any evil on the left, was deriding anyone who had the temerity to suggest that the Chinese were responsible for the Covid virus and culpable for the deaths of the 3.5 million people who've since died in the worldwide pandemic. It's racist, we've been told, to calumniate the good folks in Beijing.

Well, Elle Reynolds at The Federalist must be a racist because she publicizes the contents of a newly released book written by Sayragul Sautybay and journalist Alexandra Cavelius (The title is: The Chief Witness: Escape From China’s Modern-Day Concentration Camps) and what she writes is not at all flattering to Xi Jinping and his minions.

Sautybay was held in a state-run concentration camp in Xinjiang province where she witnessed the horrors perpetrated against Uyghur Muslims in China.

Despite having been forced to sign a pledge that she would never, on pain of execution, speak of the things she witnessed, after being released from the camp in 2018 she managed to escape China, and has been actively trying ever since to rouse the conscience of the liberal Western media which would much prefer to focus their attentions upon the nefarious Donald Trump and the January 6th riot at the Capitol.

Reynolds comments on Sautybay's book:

According to satellite photos from the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, the number of camps had reached 380 by September 2020. Sauytbay was forced to work as a teacher at one of them.

The screams coming from the black room [a torture chamber at her camp] “sounded like the raw cries of a dying animal,” she says. “The second you hear them, you know what kind of agony that person is experiencing.”

She recalls seeing chains on the walls in the black room, and chairs with “nails sticking out of the seats” where inmates would be tied down. Torture devices on the walls “looked like they were from the Middle Ages,” including “implements used to pull out fingernails and toenails,” and a spear-like rod “for jabbing into a person’s flesh.”

Electric chairs, “iron chairs with holes in the back so that the arms could be twisted back above the shoulder joint,” and other chairs designed to pin victims down lined one side of the room. “Many of the people they tortured never came back out of that room,” she says. “Others stumbled out, covered in blood.”

Secretive orders mandated that any prisoners who died or were killed “must vanish without a trace,” Sauytbay recalls. “There should be no visible signs of torture on the bodies … Any evidence, proof, or documentation was to be immediately destroyed.”

Fine people, these Chinese communists. Sautybay recalls one of the classes she was forced to teach:

I was barely even listening to myself talk about our self-sacrificing patriarch Xi Jinping, who "passes on the warmth of love with his hands" [while] several of the ‘students’ collapsed unconscious and fell off their plastic chairs.

When prisoners fell unconscious, from anguish or stress, the guards “grabbed the unconscious person by both arms, and dragged them away like a doll, their feet trailing across the floor,” Sauytbay says. “They didn’t just take the unconscious, the sick, and the mad … sometimes it was simply because a prisoner hadn’t understood one of the guard’s orders, issued in Chinese.”

One 84-year-old woman Sauytbay remembers was accused of making an international phone call. Despite her denial, the camp guards punished her by ripping out her fingernails.

Another woman, in her twenties, admitted to texting a greeting to a friend for a Muslim holiday as a teenager. As punishment, the guards gang-raped her, while Sauytbay was forced to watch. “While they were raping her they checked to see how we were reacting,” she recalled in 2019. “People who turned their head or closed their eyes, and those who looked angry or shocked, were taken away and we never saw them again.”

It gets worse:

Inmates who were healthy and young often had their medical files marked by a red X. “It was simply a fact that the Party took organs from prisoners,” Sauytbay says. She began to suspect those inmates were being forcefully used for organ harvesting. Organs from Muslim donors are often preferred by other Muslims because they are “halal.”

“I realised that these young, healthy inmates were disappearing overnight, whisked away by the guards,” Sauytbay adds. “When I checked later, I realised to my horror that all their medical files were marked with a red X.”

She goes on to describe having seen classified documents from Beijing that discuss plans for world domination. Frankly, I don't know why such documents would be in a prison camp or how she would have seen them, but perhaps she explains in the book. At any rate, here's what Reynolds says about Sautybay's claims:

Sauytbay also recalls seeing classified papers from Beijing outlining a plan to overtake Europe by 2055. The first step, alongside the years 2014-2015, was to “assimilate those who are willing in Xinjiang, and eliminate those who are not.”

Step two called for the annexing of “neighboring countries” between 2025 and 2035. China has already started to test its borders. In 2020, the Chinese government built 11 buildings inside the Nepalese district of Humla, and denied Nepal’s claim to the district. In the same year, the CCP passed a “security” law over Hong Kong and used it to charge and imprison pro-democracy legislators and activists.

The third step, to be achieved between 2035 and 2055, was the “occupation of Europe.”

Of course, our elites will scoff, just as they scoffed at the notion that Covid-19 started in a Wuhan lab, and just as they scoffed at Trump for calling it the Wuhan virus. Such aspersions against the Chinese are racist and not to be countenanced. After all, why think the compassionate Chinese leadership would do such things?

As Reynolds concludes:

Western nations cannot afford — morally or practically — to turn a blind eye to the Chinese government’s abuses against its own people, the survivor says. “The current situation has already surpassed ethnic and religious issues,” Sauytbay told Radio Free Asia in 2020. “[It] has risen to a level of humanitarian tragedy.”

You can read more about Sayragul Sauytbay here. Meanwhile, we might reflect a bit on Dostoyevsky's aphorism, repeated several times in his great novel The Brothers Karamazov, "If God is dead then everything is permitted."