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Moving Uighur workers in China

Business Daily

BBC

News, Business

4.4796 Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2020

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

A new report brings together fresh evidence of the forced transportation of Uighur Muslims from Xinjiang province to provide labour in factories across China. Ed Butler speaks to one of the report authors, Nathan Ruser from the Australian Strategic Policy Institute. In some cases the factories are linked to major brands like Nike, Apple and Volkswagen. Yuan Yang, Beijing correspondent for the Financial Times, says she for one is not surprised by the reports.

(Photo: Protesters attend a rally in Hong Kong on December 22, 2019 to show support for the Uighur minority in China, Credit: Getty Images)

Transcript

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0:00.0

Looking out the window, immediately there was a sea of debris.

0:04.8

13 minutes to the moon. Season 2, coming soon.

0:11.7

Hi there, I'm Ed Butler. Welcome to Business Daily from the BBC World Service. Today, we give you damning new evidence of human trafficking in China.

0:21.4

We've estimated that about 80,000 Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslim minorities

0:26.3

have been transferred from Xinjiang to the other regions of China in the past three years.

0:32.2

A government-backed program of forced labour, it's claimed,

0:36.1

and many global brands may be unwittingly involved.

0:39.4

Often, I found, multinationals don't even know who it is who is ultimately making their products

0:44.1

in China.

0:44.8

What's really going on within China's factories? That's Business Daily from the BBC.

0:51.7

A few weeks back on this program, we looked into shocking reports about forced labour in Western China.

0:57.9

There was increasing evidence we were told that people from the mainly Muslim, Uyghur population,

1:03.3

were not just being forced into re-education camps by the government, as had been,

1:07.9

widely reported in the global media.

1:09.8

They were also now being made

1:11.1

to work in factories for little or no pay, producing goods for the international market.

1:20.5

The sound there are factory workers shouting out the company's slogan in one Xinjiang facility.

1:28.9

Well, back in January, we heard from two Kazakh citizens, a woman called Gulzara-Elhan,

1:34.4

and another man who didn't wish to be named, both of whom had escaped what they described

1:38.9

as brutal factory conditions in the Xinjiang region.

1:47.0

Ladies would be taught how to sew

1:49.8

and work in small textile works.

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