(Beijing) – When police, the average age Uyghur woman at the height of the Chinese crown blast arrested, she was filled with dozens of other women in a detention center in a cell. There, he said he was forced to drink a medicine that you feel weak and nauseous did watch guards as he swallowed. She and others also naked once a week to strip and to cover their faces sprayed to guard themselves and their cells with disinfectant “as the fire department,” he said. will “was boiling,” she said by phone from Xinjiang, down the fear of retaliation mentioned. “My hands were ruined, peeled my skin.” The government in China’s far northwest Xinjiang region to resort to draconian measures to combat the crown, including physically residents in locked houses, put in more than 40 days quarantine for the entry and stop those who do not comply. In addition to what experts call a violation of medical ethics, some residents are in the drink of traditional Chinese medicine are forced noticed by the government, messages and interviews with three people in quarantine in Xinjiang social media. There is a lack of rigorous clinical data shows traditional Chinese medicine works against the virus, and one of the herbal remedies used in Xinjiang, Qingfei Paidu contain ingredients banned in Germany, Switzerland, the United States and other countries for a high levels of toxins and carcinogens. The last exhausting Lockdown, now in its 45th day, comes in response to 826 cases in Xinjiang since mid-July, as many cases in China since the first outbreak reported. But the Lockdown Xinjiang is impressive, especially because of its severity, and why was not a single new case of local transmission in more than a week. harsh taxes lockdowns elsewhere in China, mainly in Wuhan in Hubei province, where the virus was discovered. But although residents Wuhan were more than 50,000 cases and Hubei struggled with around 68,000 more than in Xinjiang, not forced there to take traditional medicine and have been permitted usually outdoors inside its ties with ‘exercise or food. The response to an outbreak of 300 cases in Beijing in early June was still mild, stuck with some districts selected for a couple of weeks. In contrast, more than half of the 25 million people of Xinjiang are under a block that are hundreds of miles from the center of the outbreak in the capital of Urumqi, AP noted from a review of the government and state media reports that span. you are back as Wuhan and the rest of China for the most part in normal life, Xinjiang block is supported by a vast surveillance apparatus that has turned the region into a state of digital police. In the past three years, Xinjiang authorities have blown a million or more Uighurs, Kazakhs and other ethnic minorities in various forms of detention, including the extra-judicial detention, in a widespread matter of security screw. After more than a month of detention Uighur woman he was released and sent to their home. The conditions are now better, says the AP, but she is still under blockade, despite regular testing shows free of the virus. Once a day, he says, it will force the community of traditional medicine practitioners in non-white marked bottles at her and said he would face arrest if they do not drink. The AP saw photos of the bottles, the media circulating resident share in the images of another Xinjiang and other correspond to the Chinese. Authorities say that the measures taken for the welfare of all residents, if they have not commented on the facts because they are more difficult than elsewhere. The Chinese government has struggled for decades for control of Xinjiang, sometimes violently with many of the region to confront native Uyghur, heavy rule annoy Beijing. “The Xinjiang Autonomous Region has confirmed the principle of the people and the life before … and the guarantees of security and health of local people of all ethnic groups,” said the spokesman of the Chinese Foreign Ministry Zhao Lijian a conference Press on Friday. Xinjiang authorities to carry out stringent measures, say financial experts for his lavish security apparatus taking place by some estimates on the planet more police per capita than any place. “Xinjiang is a police state, is basically the law of war,” says Darren Byler, a Uyghur researcher at the University of Colorado. “I really think the same Uyghur police, who are being forced to play effectively for a quarantine.” Not all recent outbreak in Xinjiang measures are targeted to the Uighur and other minorities, mostly Muslims. Some residents have applied to the majority Han Chinese in Xinjiang, though they used spared towards minorities, in general, the extra-judicial detention. This month thousands of Xinjiang residents have taken to social media to complain, that excessive measures against the virus in places that are often censored, partially covered with pictures of the residents in handcuffs on banisters and called the front doors with metal rods. A Han Chinese woman with the surname Wang has published photos of herself to drink traditional Chinese medicine before the medical workers into complete equipment. “Why force us to drink medicine, if we are not sick,” she said immediately erased in a post August 18. “Who will take responsibility in case of problems, after so much medicine to drink? Why do we have the right not even protect our health” A few days later he was simply wrote: “I have lost all hope. I cry when I think about it.” After heavy criticism, authorities eased some of the restrictions last week now allows some residents in their compounds, to go out and limited to leave a couple of the region after a bureaucratic approval process. Wang did not respond to a request for interviews. But his account is published in line with many other social media, and interviewed by the AP. A businessman Han between Urumqi and Beijing told the AP that was quarantined in mid-July. Although it has five times and negative test each time said Crown test plug, not him, nor the rent authorities – not so much as a walk. When he complained about his online status, he said that his deleted messages and had been told to remain silent. “The most terrible thing is the silence,” wrote the Chinese social media site Weibo mid-August. “After a long pause, it falls into the abyss of despair.” “I’ve been in this room for so long, I do not remember for how long. I want to” just forget he wrote again, day after. “I write my feelings to calm myself, I exist again. I fear will be forgotten by the world.” “I’m falling apart,” he told the AP recently refused for fear of retaliation mentioned. is forced to take traditional Chinese medicine, he said, and the liquid from the same wing with white bottles as the Uighur woman. It is also claimed in error, for violation of the FDA wants to be regularly forced by US Customs and Border Patrol Lianhua Qingwen, a remedy herbal take effective against COVID-19 Since the beginning, the Chinese government pushed the traditional medicine for its people. The funds are nationalist President Xi Jinping, China announced authoritarian leaders who supported a revival of traditional Chinese culture. Although some doctors say government support that have been made against the virus studies medicine works show rigorous clinical data indicate that demand has argued published in international scientific journals. “None of these drugs has been scientifically proven to be effective and to be sure,” said Fang Shimin, a former biochemist and author for its scientific fraud investigations in China known to live in the US now. “It ‘s immoral to force people to take medications, unproven sick or healthy.” The first time the virus starts promoted proliferation, flooded thousands pharmacies in Hubei Province for traditional remedy search by state support of efficacy against the virus. Bottles of pills were hidden in care packages overseas Chinese workers and students sent with the Chinese flag emblazoned some, others read: “Home is always firmly upwards.” But the new measures in Xinjiang forcing some residents to take medicine is unprecedented, experts say. The government says that the participation rate in the treatment of traditional Chinese medicine in the region has “reached 100%”, the report of a state media. When asked about complaints about residents who were forced to take Chinese medicine, a local official said that was done “according to the experts.” “We help to solve the problems of ordinary people,” said Liu Haijiang, the head of Dabancheng in Urumqi “how to get their children to school, that provide medicine or a doctor.” ‘Ve the rise of Xi, critics of traditional Chinese medicine with silence. In April, an influential medical Hubei, Yu Xiangdong, a hospital management position has been removed for questioning the effectiveness of the agent has confirmed a release. An announcement of the online government Yu said “opened inappropriate remarks published epidemic prevention policy of the nation and the Chinese traditional medicine for slander.” In March, the World Health Organization removed guide on its website said that herbal remedies are not effective against viruses and may be harmful, say it is “too large”. And in May the government in the city of Beijing announced a bill that the speech “defamed or slandered” would criminalize traditional Chinese medicine. Now the government is driving the Chinese traditional medicine to treat COVID-19 abroad, pills and specialists in the countries sending the Philippines such as Iran, and Italy. Other leaders also cited unproven and potentially dangerous remedies – in particular the US president Donald Trump, which can cause disturbances of the heart rhythm drug hydroxychloroquine, malaria embarrassed, even though there is no evidence that it is effective against COVID- 19 But China will be the first citizens of strength – at least in Xinjiang – to take them. The push by the Chinese government for traditional medicine to strengthen the fortunes of billionaires and the filling state coffers. The Wu Yiling family, the company’s founder, Lianhua Qingwen ago, has seen the value of their investment more than doubled in the last six months, which makes them more than a billion dollars in compensation. also benefit: the Guangdong government, which holds a stake in Wu companies. “It ‘a huge waste of money these companies make millions,” said public health expert, who works closely with the Chinese government, refusing to be identified for fear of retaliation. “But then again – why do not you take it? Is there a placebo effect, is not harmful. Why bother? There’s no reason to fight this.” The measures are very different from city and region, and not all residents take medication. The Uighur woman said that despite the threats against them, the liquid and pills in the bathroom toilet. A man whose parents Han in Xinjiang told the AP that the funds are voluntary for them. Although the measures are “extreme,” he says, they are understandable. “There is no other way if we want to control the government this epidemic,” he said, declining to be named to avoid reprisals. “We do not want to become our epidemic such as Europe or America.” Image Copyright AP
In China Xinjiang, drugging accompanied Crown Lockdown
