Just as UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet had arrived in China on May 22 for a six-day visit, which will include trips to Kashgar and Urumqi in Xinjiang, British asset Adrian Zenz, author of the lie that “1 million Uighurs” are locked up in Xinjiang, unleashed a wild slander campaign against China which has now gone viral. It is based on the release of hacked Chinese police photographs and documents, purporting to show repression of 20,000 detained Uighurs arrested between 2000 and 2018 in Xinjiang.
Nota bene: the documents, said to be extracted from the Chinese public security bureau (PSB) by anonymous hackers, were sent to Zenz—and only Zenz—who then immediately shared them with the media, and had them published by the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation for which he works. Zenz boasted that “it’s the first time we have police evidence that is unfiltered. It comes from hacking, so censorship is virtually impossible,” AFP reported him as saying. On the same day the files were published, Zenz also published an “academic” paper explaining that large number of Uighurs were detained due to Chinese political paranoia that promoted “exaggerated threat perceptions” of terrorism.
As of today, international media, with the British media in the lead, are publishing this “exposé” with blaring, hysterical headlines. Obviously, this is intended to sabotage Mrs. Bachelet’s visit, but the broader significance of the attack cannot be underestimated. It occurs at a moment of extraordinarily dangerous strategic crisis in which Russia and China are the major targets of an Anglo-American establishment driven mad by the collapse of its financial system. Britain’s BBC took the cake in its coverage, publishing the documents in a dramatic format with sophisticated computer graphics to portray alleged detention centers and guards in the darkest and most ominous way possible. Sources in the U.K. tell EIR that the Brits are “going crazy” with this news. London’s Guardian lavished praise on Zenz as a principled “scholar and activist.”
