Chen Quanguo has imposed a drastic security of the region and organized the internment in “rehabilitation” camps of more than one million Ouvours.
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Famous for orchestrate the suppression against the hears and other Muslim minorities over the last five years, the secretary of the Xinjiang party, and therefore the number one in the region, Chen Quanguo, 66, has left his place. To replace it, Beijing has named my Xingrui, a scientist, former head of the Chinese space program become number two from Guangdong Province, one of the most dynamic China, revealed the official news agency China New Saturday, December 25th without any other explanation.
This announcement comes a few days after the adoption by the United States of a law prohibiting the importation of Xinjiang products, due to charges of forced labor. But the company transition must not be overrepresented: despite the critics and sanctions of which it has been the subject of Europe and the United States, Chen Quanguo has never been disavowed by Beijing. My Xingrui could have the task of reviving a regional economy stifled by the repression, and now targeted by international sanctions.
From the point of view of Beijing, Chen Quanguo leaves the autonomous region of the Xinjiang the accomplished duty. As the authorities repeat, Xinjiang has not experienced a single attack since 2017, while they were recurring in previous years. Arrived at the head of the mid-2016 region, he set up a unprecedented security unit: police stations installed at all street corners, police patrols, checkpoints … The Xinjiang of Chen Quanguo had tunes of areas war. Above all, the man presided over the construction of hundreds of “rehabilitation” camps across the region, and multiplied prisons and detention centers. According to experts, between one and two million heaugours have been held in these camps since 2017, on a population of 11 million people.
Rehabilitation camps
Originally from Henan, a poor province of the center of China, Chen Quanguo pledged into the People’s Class Army in 1973. After the end of the cultural revolution (1966-1976), he resumed studies. political economy, before starting a local career. Chen Quanguo climbed the ladder while the current Prime Minister Li Keqiang led the province. In 2011, he was appointed to the head of the autonomous region of Tibet, where he tested some of the drastic security measures then put in place in Xinjiang: solid recruitment of police officers and put in place of permanent surveillance involving the inhabitants themselves. While the immolations by the fire of monks and none Buddhists multiplied, thousands of them were sent to rehabilitation camps.
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