This August 2020, photo provided by a Uighur under quarantine shows a bottle of unidentified traditional Chinese medicine in Urumqi, China. As parts of the Xinjiang region in China's far northwest enters the 45th day of a second grueling lockdown due to a coronavirus outbreak, the government there is coercing some residents into using traditional Chinese medicine despite a lack of rigorous clinical data proving it works.
The government in China’s far northwest Xinjiang region is resorting to draconian measures to combat the coronavirus, including physically locking residents in homes, imposing quarantines of more than 40 days and arresting those who do not comply. Furthermore, in what experts call a breach of medical ethics, some residents are being coerced into swallowing traditional Chinese medicine, according to government notices, social media posts and interviews with three people in quarantine in Xinjiang.
Once a day, she says, community workers force traditional medicine in white unmarked bottles on her, saying she’ll be detained if she doesn’t drink them. The AP saw photos of the bottles, which match those in images from another Xinjiang resident and others circulating on Chinese social media. “Xinjiang is a police state, so it’s basically martial law,” says Darren Byler, a researcher on the Uighurs at the University of Colorado. “They think Uighurs can’t really police themselves, they have to be forced to comply in order for a quarantine to be effective.”
Wang did not respond to a request for interviews. But her account is in line with many others posted on social media, as well as those interviewed by the AP. Since the start of the outbreak, the Chinese government has pushed traditional medicine on its population. The remedies are touted by President Xi Jinping, China’s nationalist, authoritarian leader, who has advocated a revival of traditional Chinese culture. Although some state-backed doctors say they have conducted trials showing the medicine works against the virus, no rigorous clinical data supporting that claim has been published in international scientific journals.
“We’re helping resolve the problems of ordinary people,” said Liu Haijiang, the head of Dabancheng district in Urumqi, “like getting their children to school, delivering them medicine or getting them a doctor.”
ChinaSuks 😂😂😂 Better let the population dies by millions like in US. Jajjaja Best of all is that medice is well proved in Wuhan and it works really well. Desinfectant is what your presidents wants to drink one month ago. Those are herbs from Chinese medicine. So funny.
Hey NBA what do you think of that. Silence...........
Thats horrifying, these so called disinfection measures against coronqvirus are deliberate action aimimg to humiliate and harming the Uighurs. You don't see CCP hosing down XJP or others with acidic disinfectant.
aydinanwar_ Why are we supposed to believe you?
DanielWickham93 Like we've seen in America, I think power is kept from certain groups of people because there's a general consensus that they will harm or destroy what was built. This is why everyone on earth needs to have the exact same human and civil rights without exception.
this treatment and bald-faced lying has reduced covid deaths to zero in China
Ahhhhhh, the joys of socialism.
margbrennan This sounds like our crazy President! Remember bleach and light...
margbrennan Fake news again. 😠
The good people of planet earth see the Evil for what it is : CHINAS POLITICS IS INHUMANE : the Middle East is up to the same old evil ways that it’s practiced for millennia.
What else can you expect? It was their barbarity that put us all in this mess.
If there is any vaccine invented by CCP, I hope the world not rushing to purchase!!! Because you know why they can finish clinical trial so quickly! You know the reason!
Hahaha who will believe in such nonsense without facts
The insanity of CCP is beyond one's imagination, and the virus combating measures are of no science bases
It’s just a downgrade from disinfecting the region by killing off the locals This shouldn’t be allowed at all, but no government is daring to act against China on such issues
Are there really someone trust her? Chinese respect the science and we know it won't work to the coronavirus. We won't drink disinfectant
Can we get Labron to comment on this?
China is evil
Trump's next miracle cure?
Cloud journalists... 😂
This is only a tip of the iceberg. These horrendous camps have gained much notoriety for abortion, sterilization. Put more simply, they are genocide. Not many Uyghurs could survive and tell us their tragedy.
China is a Devil to the world
Coming to a city in America near you.
Are they still alive , if so how many?
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Timcast realDonaldTrump
Is that how Americans watch the news every day? Starting with a picture, the content is all made up 😂 Drinking Chinese medicine is said to be so terrible 😱 I admit that the blockade in Xinjiang is very strict, but I have never heard my friends in Xinjiang say this situation
Meanwhile LeBron James and the rest of the NBA remains silent.
🤬😭
Tortured!
Sounds familiar. Someone in the 1940s did the same thing and we said never again.
Like what happened in USA detention centres around the world. is FakeNews
Will KingJames skip a game for this? Or remain silent. He wouldn’t want to upset his Chinese masters.
We are witnessing a modern day genocide before our eyes, and many nations do nothing. To ignore evil is to become accomplice to it.
My heart hurts 💔 for the Uighur Muslims under this tyrannical regime. Why is the world so silent 🤫?
where you at KingJames. fkn fraud
Torture of Uighurs in Chinese concentration camps under Xi Jinping's genocide.
Joe Biden's China
The exact opposite of US response. Extremes on either end make for bad medicine.
Is this kind of news available because of the retrogression of American people's wisdom or the madness of the media?
To hell with the criminal Chinese regime 🔥
Are we still turning a blind eye to what’s happening in Xinjiang and the systematic human rights abuses in China? EnoughIsEnough
5 million Iraqi Arabs, Christians, Kurds and Muslims killed for Oil!! Let’s start from there.
This reads like one of those savage Hun propaganda articles prior to WW1
This should be enough to make my 'Thumb' happier.
Well, we don't have to worry about nba cancelling any games in China over this kind of trivial stuff.
Fake news. Keep lying
melodyisdestiny Appalling.
I guess it’s better than a bullet to the head which is customary in China and Russia.
Wow propaganda much Batman ?
这种新闻竟然也有人信？
I wouldn’t believe anything coming out of China especially if it’s put out by MSM.
realDonaldTrump
You'd think such a reliable source would offer links to original and corroborated reports of these alleged incidents. Weird
Kinda like Trump telling people to try aquarium cleaner, inject bleach, and shine UV lights up their asses?
KingJames is still yet to comment on this humans rights atrocity being committed by China
Omg... Don’t give Trump any ideas.
evil
What does KingJames and a bunch of other NBA players think?
For God's sake, DON'T LET TRUMP SEE THIS ARTICLE! You know he'll try to have this crap implemented.
Hide yo kids, hide yo wife cuz they snatching up errbody
'C'mon man, their not bad people'.
realDonaldTrump you want to pick a fight, do it here. It's got everything you love to hate, China, freedom of religion violations, abortion, genocide. Use your mouth and thumbs for some good, for once.
Behold americans a real autocratic facist state where an actual genocide is taking place. Surely this will put things into perspective...
BotchlaUS i bet we are gonna find babies in incubators and anthrax in China soon
NBA NBAonTNT KingJames
octobadger1 blhack
And there are those who think that just wearing a mask is going too far.
The scooter the Galileo that I just sold the. Ignition key was made there and it links to an underground railroad
KingJames
Horrifying.
lol to combat coronavirus, does anyone other than the AP believe that
Sounds like another place where china is making crap up to ruin trumps reputation like them making coronavirus itd a sham virus
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