Tales of Tenth Grade

Communist China is a region with a history of unjust detention and labor camps.  Only five years ago, China abolished the "re-education through labor", which forced people without trial to labor for years.  Now, as of August of 2018, a similar system is arising in the region of Xinjiang, located in Northwest China. According to the Chinese government, these new camps are focused on detaining minority groups such as Muslims, Uighurs, and Kazakhs in order to prevent temptations of radical Islam, and to help them escape poverty, provide job training, learn the Chinese language, and to become "modern people" who are useful to society.  Unfortunately, this propaganda is only part of the truth and there is still much more injustice to be revealed. The first event started in August 2018 in which an official target goal from the Chinese government was to send 100,000 citizens from Kashgar to the camps.  Kashgar is predominantly populated with the minority group of Uigh...

We, as a populace, are generally not very privy to many current events in our world. Lands are decimated, towns crumble to naught but ashes, cultures are wiped from existence, yet we continue about our lives unaffected and unburdened as a thousand miles assumes the distance of entire worlds. Even within our own country, we remain blissfully ignorant, unaware of the plight of our neighbors and fellow countries alike.  A ways across the sea lies a country known as China, a heavily populated region of East Asia in the throes of communism. Renowned for its production of countless goods and its strong economy, it is a country that wields great political power. Yet China is not just a country of communism, of factories and booming populations, but also of something the Chinese government likes to term a “re-education camp”. As innocent as a “re-education camp” sounds, its very name is a misnomer, belying the true torment occurring within these camps that bear striking r...