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‘Enemy’ or ‘mother’? Chinese party members occupy homes

By Dake Kang and Yanan Wang, AP, Nov. 30, 2018

ISTANBUL (AP)--The two women in the photograph were smiling, but Halmurat Idris knew something was terribly wrong.

One was his 39-year-old sister; standing at her side was an elderly woman Idris did not know. Their grins were tight-lipped, mirthless. Her sister had posted the picture on a social media account along with a caption punctuated by a smiley-face.

“Look, I have a Han Chinese mother now!” his sister wrote.

Idris knew instantly: The old woman was a spy, sent by the Chinese government to infiltrate his family.

There are many like her. According to the ruling Communist Party’s official newspaper, as of the end of September, 1.1 million local government workers have been deployed to ethnic minorities’ living rooms, dining areas and Muslim prayer spaces, not to mention at weddings, funerals and other occasions once considered intimate and private.

All this is taking place in China’s far west region of Xinjiang, home to the predominantly Muslim, Turkic-speaking Uighurs, who have long reported discrimination at the hands of the country’s majority Han Chinese.

While government notices about the “Pair Up and Become Family” program portray it as an affectionate cultural exchange, Uighurs living in exile in Turkey said their loved ones saw the campaign as a chilling intrusion into the only place that they once felt safe.

They believe the program is aimed at coercing Uighurs into living secular lives like the Han majority. Anything diverging from the party’s prescribed lifestyle can be viewed by authorities as a sign of potential extremism--from suddenly giving up smoking or alcohol, to having an “abnormal” beard or an overly religious name.

Under Chinese President Xi Jinping, the Uighur homeland has been blanketed with stifling surveillance, from armed checkpoints on street corners to facial-recognition-equipped CCTV cameras steadily surveying passers-by. Now, Uighurs say, they must live under the watchful eye of the ruling Communist Party even inside their own homes.

“The government is trying to destroy that last protected space in which Uighurs have been able to maintain their identity,” said Joanne Smith Finley, an ethnographer at England’s Newcastle University.

The Associated Press spoke to five Uighurs living in Istanbul who shared the experiences of their family members in Xinjiang who have had to host Han Chinese civil servants. These accounts are based on prior communications with their family members, the majority of whom have since cut off contact because Uighurs can be punished for speaking to people abroad.

The Uighurs abroad said their loved ones were constantly on edge in their own homes, knowing that any misstep--a misplaced Quran, a carelessly spoken word--could lead to detention or worse. In the presence of these faux relatives, their family members could not pray or wear religious garbs, and the cadres were privy to their every move.

The thought of it--and the sight of his sister, the old woman and their false smiles--made Idris queasy.

“I wanted to throw up,” said the 49-year-old petroleum engineer, shaking his head in disgust.

“The moment I saw the old woman, I thought, ‘Ugh, this person is our enemy.’ If your enemy became your mother, think about it--how would you feel?”

Tensions between Muslim minorities and Han Chinese have bubbled over in recent years, resulting in violent attacks pegged to Uighur separatists and a fierce government crackdown on broadly defined “extremism” that has placed as many as 1 million Muslims in internment camps, according to estimates by experts and a human rights group.

Uighurs say the omnipresent threat of being sent to one of these centers, which are described as political indoctrination camps by former detainees, looms large in their relatives’ minds when they are forced to welcome party members into their homes.

Last December, Xinjiang authorities organized a “Becoming Family Week” which placed more than 1 million cadres in minority households. Government reports on the program gushed about the warm “family reunions,” as public servants and Uighurs shared meals and even beds.

Another notice showed photos of visitors helping Uighur children with their homework and cooking meals for their “families.” The caption beneath a photo of three women lying in bed, clad in pajamas, said the cadre was “sleeping with her relatives in their cozy room.”

A different photo showed two women “studying the 19th Party Congress and walking together into the new era”--a nod to when Xi’s name was enshrined in the party constitution alongside the likes of Deng Xiaoping and Mao Zedong.

Becoming Family Week turned out to be a test run for a standardized homestay program. The Xinjiang United Front Work Department said in February that government workers should live with their assigned families every two months, for five days at a time.

The United Front, a Communist Party agency, indicates in the notice that the program is mandatory for cadres. Likewise, Idris and other interviewees said their families understood that they would be deemed extremists if they refused to take part.

Cadres, who are generally civilians working in the public sector, are directed to attend important family events such as the naming of newborns, circumcisions, weddings and funerals of close relatives. They must have a firm grasp of each family member’s ideological state, social activities, religion, income, their challenges and needs, as well as basic details on immediate relatives, the notice said.

Families were to be paid a daily rate of 20 to 50 yuan ($2.80 to $7.80) to cover the cost of meals shared with their newfound relatives. Some families might be paired with two or three cadres at a time, according to the notice, and the regularly mandated house calls could be supplanted with trips to the local party office.

A February piece on the Communist Party’s official news site said: “The vast majority of party cadres are not only living inside villagers’ homes, but also living inside the hearts of the masses.”

Overseas Uighurs said the “visits” to their relatives’ homes often lasted longer than five days, and they were closely monitored the whole time. The cadres would ask their family members where they were going and who they were meeting whenever they wanted to leave the house.

“They couldn’t pray,” said Abduzahir Yunus, a 23-year-old Uighur originally from Urumqi, Xinjiang’s capital. “Praying or even having a Quran at home could endanger the whole family.”

Yunus, who now lives in Istanbul, said his father used to lament to him about being visited three to four times a week by the administrator of his neighborhood committee, a middle-aged Han Chinese man. The surprise house calls began in 2016, and it was “impossible to say no,” Yunus said. They often coincided with times traditionally designated for prayer.

“Their aim is to assimilate us,” Yunus said. “They want us to eat like them, sleep like them and dress like them.”

After Yunus’s parents and older brother were detained, only Yunus’s sister-in-law and 5-year-old brother remained in the house. Around the beginning of 2018, the Han Chinese man started staying with them full-time.

Uighurs said they were particularly repulsed by the thought of male visitors living under the same roof as their female relatives and children--a practice contrary to their faith. Women and kids are sometimes the only ones left at home after male family members are sent to internment camps.

In recent years, the government has even encouraged Uighurs and Han Chinese to tie the knot.

Starting in 2014, Han-Uighur spouses in one county were eligible to receive 10,000 yuan ($1,442) annually for up to five years following the registration of their marriage license.

Such marriages are highly publicized. The party committee in Luopu county celebrated the marriage of a Uighur woman and a “young lad” from Henan in an official social media account in October 2017. The man, Wang Linkai, had been recruited through a program that brought university graduates to work in the southern Xinjiang city of Hotan.

“They will let ethnic unity forever bloom in their hearts,” the party committee’s post said. “Let ethnic unity become one’s own flesh and blood.”

As with many of the government’s other initiatives in Xinjiang, the “Pair Up and Become Family” program is presented as a way to rescue Muslim minorities from poverty. Public servants show up at homes bearing bags of rice and gallons of cooking oil, and their duties include helping with chores and farm work.

Xu Jing, an employee at Turpan city’s environmental bureau, recounted her shock after entering her assigned relative’s home. Xu said the only light in the residence came from a small window, and she realized that Xasiyet Hoshur wasn’t lying when she said she lived on 3,000 yuan ($433) a year.

Thousands of miles away, in Turkey, Uighur relatives in exile watch what is happening with dread.

Earlier this year, Ablikim Abliz studied a photo of his uncle’s family gathered around a table. Clad in thick winter jackets, his uncle and the smiling Han Chinese man beside him both held chubby-faced children in their laps.

His uncle had posted the photo to his WeChat page along with the caption “Han Chinese brother.”

The 58-year-old Abliz said his entire extended family in China has been sent to internment camps. When he saw his uncle’s photo, his first reaction was relief. If his uncle had been assigned a Han family member, Abliz thought, that meant he was safe.

But the consolation was short-lived. A friend who tried to visit his uncle in Turpan this summer told Abliz that his uncle’s front door was boarded up and sealed with police tape. Abliz has not been able to reach any of his family members since.

As for Idris, he fears that his sister is living under immense pressure with her Han Chinese “mother.” Shortly after her sister’s first post about her new relatives, a friend responded on WeChat: “I also have one! You guys better be careful!”

The same friend later posted photos of herself and a Han Chinese woman doing a Chinese fan dance, playing the drums and wearing traditional Han clothing.

His sister would never have volunteered for such a program, Idris said. She and his younger sister had been trying to get passports to bring their children to Turkey and reunite with Idris, but their applications were not accepted.

Last summer, both of his sisters deleted him on WeChat. A few months later, his aunt deleted him, too. For more than a year, Idris has not been able to communicate with his relatives. He wonders, with growing unease, how they’re getting along with their new “family.”

#China #Xinjiang #Uighurs #Han Chinese

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Body of newborn baby found in backyard of Newcastle house as police search for mother

Updated June 18, 2019 16:51:26 Map: Waratah 2298 NSW Police are investigating the discovery of the body of a newborn baby in a beachside suburb of Newcastle. Key points:A post-mortem will be conducted to identify the baby's age, sex, and cause of deathPolice are calling for the public's assistance to help locate the baby's mother for her to be offered medical treatmentDistrict Commander Brett Greentree praised police for their response to the "heartbreaking situation" Police were called to Stockton just after 7:00am, where the baby's body had been found abandoned in the backyard of a Church Street house. The street was cordoned off and a crime scene has been established. During a press conference, Newcastle City District Commander Brett Greentree said he was unable to say exactly how recently the baby had been born. "It's very difficult to answer that at the moment. This will be a matter for the coroner," he said. "There will be a post-mortem examination which will obviously provide us a lot more information with respect to the sex of the child, and how that child may have passed away."

Photo: Streets around the Stockton home where the body was found were cordoned off by police. (ABC Newcastle: Colin Kerr) Call for public assistance Commander Greentree said officers had little information as to the mother's identity and he called for public assistance. "At the moment we have very serious and grave concerns for the mother who may need medical assistance, and we're doing our absolute best to try and identify the female," he said. "Surely somebody will have some idea and be able to assist us. "It is just really a heartbreaking situation, it's very very sad, and we're hoping that between the investigations and the community we'll be able to identify this female and, first and foremost, make sure she has medical treatment. "It's very important that this female has some medical treatment to make sure she is OK." Commander Greentree said the person who found the baby's body did not appear to be linked to the death. "At this early stage in the investigation the occupant of that residence has been assisting us and we don't think there's any connection at this point in time," he said. "That person is assisting us with our enquiries as are the rest of the neighbours in area." Commander Greentree said the person would be offered counselling, as would police officers.

Photo: Church Street, Stockton was cordoned off and a crime scene has been established following the discovery of the baby's body. (ABC Newcastle: Colin Kerr) "Certainly it's a tragic circumstance that I'm talking to you here today about," he said. "Certainly the occupant of that house we're putting support around that occupant and the police. "We attend incidents that others won't go to or don't want to go to. So I'm very proud of the officers that go to these type of jobs. "It just shows how difficult an occupation it [policing] is. But in saying that, we certainly have support in place for what is a heartbreaking situation for anyone to come across." Anyone with information about the baby or the mother have been urged to contact police at CrimeStoppers on 1300 333 000. Topics:police,welfare,death,babies---newborns,womens-health,waratah-2298,stockton-2295,newcastle-2300 First posted June 18, 2019 13:10:16 http://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-06-18/newborns-body-found-in-newcastle-backyard/11220602

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• the Baby Summit • Well after being on the road and holidaying with my family for 6 week, 4 days after being home I took off again but this time for work!!! For the third year running, I've been extremely lucky to be able to attend the biggest newborn & baby workshop in Australia.... And what an amazing 5 days it's been!!! I didn't really take a lot of photos, but here's just a snippet of the weekend (with some borrowed photos included) With over 300+ photographers, speakers, vendors and all set on the gorgeous Sunshine Coast it's an awesome working weekend away, with so much learning, networking, friends, talent, business, drinks and fun all included!!! My awesome #summitroomies for the third year #missedyouEm and with #Newcastle well represented, we had an awesome time... Now it's back to reality and to put into practice what I've learnt and taken away from this weekend!!! Back to work to a job I love!!!! See you next year #thebabysummit #TBSAU18 . #thebabysummit17 #TBSAU17 #sunshinecoast #qld #twinwaters #petaeyeingtonphotography #petaeyeington #huntervalleyphotographer #nsw #weekendaway #work #photographer #photography #love #photographerlife (at Peta Eyeington Photography)

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Describe caption Anti-Brexit protester Steve Bray (left) and a talented-Brexit protester argue as they repeat out of doorways the Houses of Parliament, in Westminster, in January.

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Describe caption Olivia Colman clutches her Oscar for deal of efficient actress, for her feature as Queen Anne within the The Favourite. She gave a heartfelt speech, asserting: "Or no longer it is in truth somewhat anxious. This is hilarious. I received an Oscar."

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Describe caption Swedish local weather activist Greta Thunberg (centre) meets Green Party Westminster chief Caroline Lucas (left) and Labour chief Jeremy Corbyn on the Dwelling of Commons in April. Ms Thunberg criticised the UK for supporting new exploitation of fossil fuels and exaggerating cuts to carbon emissions. An empty chair changed into as soon as left for ragged High Minister Theresa Can even simply, who did no longer wait on.

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Describe caption Football fans line the streets at an commence-high bus parade around Liverpool in June. Liverpool received the Uefa Champions League closing 2-0 against Tottenham, at Wanda Metropolitano stadium in Madrid.

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Describe caption An RAF Chinook helicopter flies in sandbags to shore up a dam at Toddbrook reservoir, after it changed into as soon as broken by heavy rainfall within the summertime. Greater than 1,500 of us had been evacuated from Whaley Bridge, in Derbyshire, in August over fears the dam would crumple and flood the metropolis. Speedy-term work to repair the broken dam will commence up in 2020.

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Describe caption Chelsea pensioner and D-Day ancient George Skipper, 95, poses for photos at his dwelling within the Chelsea Royal Properly being facility. Mr Skipper, who landed in Normandy on 6 June 1944, sailed abet there to discover the 75th anniversary.

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‘You don’t achieve anything in the movement by yourself’

UNISON’s new president Gordon McKay is a mental health nurse from the union’s Ayrshire and Arran health branch. He’s been a member of the union for 31 years, having joined the NHS in 1987 and UNISON forebear NUPE on the very same day.

“In working class communities in Scotland, that’s what you did – you joined your union straight away,” he says.

But he’s keen to stress that joining a union was far from an unthinking action. “It was recognised that the best way to defend yourself was to defend your colleagues, in the knowledge that when the time came, they would defend you.”

It was always a conscious solidarity.

Gordon moved into his speciality of mental health nursing in 1988. He recalls: “I was on days off on Monday and Tuesday and on strike on Wednesday. My first working day in mental health was the 1988 day of action.”

He didn’t become an activist immediately, he says. He and his wife were just starting a young family at the time.

But Gordon does remember, very clearly, the incident in the early 1990s that led to him becoming more active.

‘I just thought, I ain’t putting up with any of that’

A young colleague was being dressed down by “a relatively junior” manager.

“He gave her an absolute hell of a bollocking in the middle of a corridor. And that was because she had nipped off for five minutes to use the phone.

The woman’s two-year-old daughter was at home with chickenpox, being looked after by her grandmother. “She phoned to see how the wee one was. And we got this tirade. You know: ‘You should consider yourself lucky to have a job and if I see you using a phone again without getting my permission you won’t have one’.

“She was a young girl and she was in tears, she was distraught. “I just thought, I ain’t putting up with any of that. And if I can help people who either want to challenge that sort of behaviour or just need someone to talk to, then yeah, that’s gonna be me.”

That refusal to stand by when he witnesses injustice, or people in need of solidarity, is still there three decades later.

‘To have no hope, no aspirations, no dreams, when everything’s just about the next plate, must be a hell of a way to live’

Gordon McKay was elected UNISON president by the National Executive Committee (NEC) at the end of June’s national delegate conference.

It’s traditional for presidents to nominate a charity and use the increased profile of their presidential year to raise awareness and funds for their chosen cause. Though Gordon hasn’t yet settled on the specific charity, he knows the cause he will be supporting.

“It will be mother and newborn baby support in sub-Saharan Africa, probably Malawi,” he said.

“I was sitting with my daughter about six months ago watching a programme on TV [on the issue]. I remember saying to her: ‘I wonder where these people will be in a year’s time’. And she said: ‘Well, we know where most of them will be. Most of them will be dead’.

“I think that to have no hope, no aspirations, no dreams, when everything’s just about the next plate, must be a hell of a way to live. And anything, anything we can do just to make that slightly better…”

As “president of the biggest union in the UK” he is in the perfect position to help make things more than slightly better, both for people on the breadline in sub-Saharan Africa and for those working like himself in vital public services in the UK.

So does Gordon have any specific targets or goals for his year as UNISON president?

“I’ve always thought, whether as an activist or a member, that setting yourself goals for what you want to do in your trade union does not work,” he says.

“Because the reality is you don’t achieve anything in the trade union movement by yourself. What you do, is you achieve it with other people.

“What I would hope I can participate in achieving with others is probably twofold.

“The first would be to continue to make the case with the public for public services – to get the message across that it’s public services that hold our society together, and how they do that.

“And the second, I think, would be to continue to be part of UNISON’s Pay Up Now! campaign, to get back some of the £18,000 that’s been stolen off our members over the last seven years to pay for the greed and incompetence of other people.”

Gordon is joined on the presidential team by senior vice president Josie Bird (pictured above with Gordon at national conference) and junior vice president Sian Stockham.

Josie is a local government worker from Newcastle, where she has worked as an administrative officer for the past 17 years. The secretary of the union’s Newcastle City branch, she also chairs the NEC’s finance and resource management committee.

Sian is a support care worker from Abergavenny. She has been a member of the NEC since 2005, where she holds the seat representing fellow low-paid women members in Wales.

Photos: Steve Forrest

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