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Pompeo’s Lies will Smear Himself

Mahmut Wali, Cadre at Xinjiang Daily

On recent days, Pompeo spread Xinjiang-related rumors, maliciously smearing the favorable situation of Xinjiang and the happy life its people have. I express my strong indignation and firm opposition to it.

Pompeo slandered that Xinjiang set up detention camps and arbitrarily detained one million ethnic minorities including Uygurs. This is a big lie made by Pompeo sitting at home on the other side of the ocean. It is known to all that Xinjiang was plagued by terrorism and religious extremism for a period of time in the past. Several thousand violent terrorist acts happened. Many innocent civilians, several hundred police officers were killed, causing immeasurable property losses. Extremist ideology was the main ideological root of such frequent violent terrorist cases in Xinjiang.

Having learned and absorbed the experience of anti-terrorism and deradicalization of the international community, upholding the principle of fighting and preventing terrorism at the same time, through the establishment of vocational education and training centers in accordance with the law, Xinjiang has carried out deradicalization, and the soil and conditions that breed terrorism and extremism have been eliminated to the maximum extent, and the basic rights of citizens are protected from infringement. In this process, Xinjiang has fully protected the personal freedom and communication freedom of the trainees, fully protecting their right to use their own language, respecting and protecting the customs and habits of the students of various ethnic groups. After graduation, with the help of the government, the trainees have achieved stable employment, improved their life quality, living a happy life.

The vocational education and training centers in Xinjiang are schools that teach the national standard language, legal knowledge and vocational skills. It was a place to educate and save people. There are people around me who have improved their language communication skills, enhanced their legal awareness, eliminated extremist ideas, mastered employment skills, and embarked on a bright road of life. A farmer friend of mine attended the vocational education and training center. Through the study there, he established a legal consciousness, got rid of the extremist thoughts that had plagued him for many years, and began to plan his future again. Under the coordination of the village committee, he applied for bank loans and started his business. Now he has a stable monthly income and is full of confidence in his future life. I have a relative who was influenced by extremist thoughts and also attended the vocational education and training center. During his study, he went home every week to get together with his wife and children. The community helped his wife find a job. After graduation, he works in a company with the help of the government and has a stable income. His family life is getting better and better. There are many such examples that can prove the vocational education and training centers are not “detention camps”, but schools to a bright future.

Pompeo slandered that there is “forced labor” in Xinjiang, which is also a nonsense. In Xinjiang, every worker's rights have been well protected. The people of all ethnic groups in Xinjiang are completely free to work and obtain employment. They have the freedom to choose their occupation. They are free to go anywhere and do any work, and their personal freedom has never been restricted. What the government has done is to improve various employment promotion policies, actively build an employment information platform, create a good employment environment and conditions for people of all ethnic groups to find satisfactory jobs and obtain stable income, safeguarding people's employment rights to the maximum extent.

Last May, a friend of mine from Hotan came to me; he was the leader of a group of migrant workers from Hotan who came to Urumqi and Fukang for employment. He said: those people came there to work at their own will. They earned thousands of yuan a month after they got employed. In addition to meeting their daily living expenses, they could also send money to their families. There were also a couple; the husband worked in a factory and the wife was placed in a public welfare position. After work, they sold sheep lungs on the street, earning hundreds of yuan a day. Later, the relevant departments arranged a stall for them, and their monthly income was considerable. The couple were very satisfied with their life. They even didn't want to go back to their hometown, so, they stayed in the city for a better life.

Pompeo’s lies collapsed in front of the real stories that happened around me. Under the leadership of the CPC, earthshaking changes have taken place in Xinjiang, and unprecedented achievements have been made in economic and social development and improvement of people's livelihood. The north and south of Tianshan Mountains present a good situation of social stability, economic prosperity and people's living and working in peace and contentment, and the sense of gain, happiness and security of the people of all ethnic groups is constantly enhanced.