China weaponizes Uyghur children as informants against their own parents

Evidence

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

• XREF: Echoes the historical technique of turning children against parents found in other settler-colonial and assimilationist projects, such as US Indian boarding schools.
• SHARE: The sharp detail that teachers enlist children to spy on parents’ religious practice is exactly the kind of case-fact to trade with someone following the global Islamophobia or Xinjiang dockets.