China’s orphanages aim to assimilate a whole Uyghur generation into Han culture

Evidence

Within the walls of these orphanages, where children “between the ages of six months and 12 years are locked up like farm animals,” Chinese authorities carry out what is perhaps the crux of their genocidal program: engineering an entire generation of Uyghur Muslims to turn their back on their parents, religion, and culture in favor of the atheism, Mandarin tongue, and Han customs privileged by Beijing. … In the process, the Uyghur people are stripped of their very lifeline and future, their children. And a path is paved toward the elimination of 11 million Uyghur Muslims by stealing an entire generation of adolescents and children. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 630

Categorization

• XREF: The intergenerational-assimilation logic parallels Indigenous residential schools in Canada and Australia—forced removal of children to sever cultural transmission.
• SEED: A comparative piece on child-removal as genocide across cases: Uyghur orphanages, Canadian residential schools, Native American boarding schools—same mechanism of cultural severance.