China recruits Uyghur children to spy on their own parents

Evidence

That scene would seem to be a routine one, particularly in a post-COVID-19 world. However, when juxtaposed with concurrent realities for Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang, the scene highlights a morbid contrast. China’s genocidal designs in Xinjiang have turned children against their parents, seeking to eliminate the latter and assimilate the former. … “China’s crackdown has some Uyghurs in Xinjiang worried that their own children will incriminate them, whether accidentally or because teachers urge kids to spy on their parents,” Sigal Samuel reported in The Atlantic. China’s project of disintegrating families, the building block of Uyghur Muslim society in and beyond Xinjiang, is achieved through the routine program of enlisting young children—like the adorable Dara—to report on the religious activities of their parents to (state-controlled) teachers. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 627

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth chasing The Atlantic’s Sigal Samuel piece for the original reporting on children informing on parents in Xinjiang.
• XREF: State use of children as informants parallels patterns in McCarthy-era America and Soviet-era denunciation cultures.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 627