Comments by "Matthew Loutner" (@Matthew_Loutner) on "Living in China"
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@DareDevilMinecraft
Steve Inskeep: Let's set aside the word “genocide”, though, and focus on the things that our correspondents have found: large numbers of people imprisoned, people encouraged to give up their language and culture. You acknowledge those things or not?
Ambassador Qin Gang: You have to make a distinction between people breaking the law and being sent to prison and some other people being sent to the vocational training center.
Steve Inskeep: You are referring to what outsiders called camps?
Ambassador Qin Gang: Those people breaking the law, the terrorists, of course, the destination for them is prisons with barbed wire and high walls. To keep the society safe, we have to bring them to justice. There is no problem, as you do in the United States. But for those people, to some extent, more or less influenced by extremist ideas, which is a driving factor to many people in any terrorist and separatist activities, we give them a chance. We use a measure to correct them. It’s what we call a preventive measure.
Steve Inskeep: Preventing them from having terrorist thoughts before they have them.
Ambassador Qin Gang: Those people...not every Uyghur was sent to the school. But when we found some people, as I said just now, more or less influenced by extremist ideas, before they are getting worse, we send them to the school, giving them education on language and law and give them vocational training, so that when they finish, they can get a decent job with a good pay, so they can support themselves and they can support their families, so they will no longer be engaged into extremist and separatist activities.
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