Next the hearing from the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist party, an alleged human rights abuses against the uyghur population. A mostly Muslim Minority in a country in the northwest. The testimony from human rights advocates and people detained in prison camps in the region. Its about three hours. And the select committee will come to order. At this beginning of ramadan, as muslims around the world commemorate Prophet Muhammad receiving the first revelations of the quran, we are here to say a horrifying truth. The uyghurs, many of whom matt practice the muslim faith, are being erased. Genocide is occurring. This time, at the hands of the Chinese Communist party. We are privileged to have with us many members of the weaker community. We are deeply grateful for your bravery. We know that it comes at a great cost. We prepare to hear firsthand testimony from the ccp concentration camp. I would like to turn to alicia we sell, whose father, auschwitz survivor and Nobel Laureate singularly capture the horrors of the holocaust in his book, without objection the video will be added to the record and the clerk will play the video. Thank you, chairman gallagher, Ranking Member and the whole select committee. Last year i spoke to the United Nations on International Holocaust remembrance day. My speech highlighted the uyghur cause. Some people were confused, others sought to dissuade me, what does the holocaust have to do with a weaker . Is the answer is we may say never again, but genocide is in fact happening again. It is happening on our watch. You are sitting in washington d. C. , i am sitting in new york. Some are watching from beijing. These places sometimes feel like the center of the universe. But they are not. There is a place right now where an entire people spend their entire day fearing imprisonment, forced sterilization and torture. There is a place for an absence of free press creating there is a place from which a handful of eyewitnesses, such as have survived to tell their story as my father did. My father swore in his nobel prize pieced never to be silenced. Wherever and however human beings suffer suffering and persecuted because of the race, religion or political views. At that moment, become the center of the universe. Xinjiang is the center of the universe. When members of the select committee, thank you for bringing us there with you. Tonight we have two guests who stories will take us to the president s intervenors, in a place where the world moral attention should be focused. The xinjiang, these two women were both inside the concentration camps. They are firsthand witnesses to the systemic unimaginable brutality. Witnesses to the attempted elimination of a people, a culture, a civilization. Witnesses to the largest extrajudicial mash interment of a religious minorities since the holocaust. Witnesses to erasure. That is why athlete we sell, who swore to fight those who would forget, swore to fight those who would avert their gaze. Today, and, fact we had a highprofile hearing on the hill where the ceo of a Major Company called tiktok was asked for times about whats happening in xinjiang, the genocide, and he refused to answer. The least we can do on this committee is make sure that in 50 years, when the xinjiang genocide is remembered as one of the most abominations of the 21st century, no corporate is active, no policymakers, no investor, no University President can look their grandchildren in the eye and claim they didnt know. Now recognize Ranking Member, Roger Christian morsi, for good evening, thank you mister chairman. Tonight we will hear the harrowing testimony of weaker and muslim women who are jailed in mass internment camps by the Chinese Communist party. The ccp. The pain and suffering these women endured is horrifying. The evidence presented here is not only corroborated by the testimony of other survivors, but also by thousands of pages of leaked internal ccp documents, photographs and even satellite imagery. The ccps genocide against uyghurs and other muslim groups its real. Not only is it going on to this day, it is expanding. It is not too late to confront these atrocities so that the famous saying, never again, can actually become a rally reality. The ccp is genocide not happen overnight. It was the result of decades of planning. With this crackdown has been both methodical and monstrous. A ccp religious Affairs Official described what theyre doing to the uyghurs in this way. Quote, break their lineage, break their routes, break their connections and break their origins. Completely shovel up the roots of, quote, twofaced people, take them out and vowed to fight these two faced people until the end. Today we know that as many as 2 million uyghurs and other muslims have been jailed in mass concentration camps. They are subjected to political indoctrination, torture, forced labor another human rights abuses. Tell us people have been disappeared, nearly half 1 million weaker children have been taken from their families. And tens of thousands of women have been forcibly sterilized. Even outside the camps, chinese High Tech Companies work closely with government officials to impose a pervasive and high tech Surveillance System that has been called and open air prison. The tech ecosystem used to repress uyghurs has global implications. The prcs largest High Tech Companies are exporting surveillance, facial recognition and social tracking technologies to other countries from iran, to syria, to burma, and therefore undermining democratic movements worldwide. In addition, the ccp has long viewed xinjiang as a strategic gateway, critical to the expansion of the belt and Road Initiative. International companies were invited to the xinjiang and have faced their supply chain on cheap sources of labor, which have turned out to be forced labor. As a, result the Global Economy has been contaminated by products made by forced labor, including about 20 of the world cotton, and half of the world police elite cone used solar panels. In 2021, Congress Passed the bipartisan uyghur forced labor for bundchen act that forces companies to move their supply chain to ensure they are not profiting from forced labor and genocide. More needs to be done and this committee can help lead the way. Make no mistake, ccp leaders are absolutely listening to us closely this evening. They are intently focused on world opinion, and they fear being held accountable by the International Community for their actions. This evening, lets make sure the ccp heres a slot unclear. They are genocide must end. Tonight, as the second night of ramadan. Thousands of migrant constituents, millions of fellow americans and countless others are celebrating the holiday with family. And our country they are free to practice their religion, and although i am not muslim, i wish them ramadan mom barak. In the prc, however, jinping has decided to continue the up is lynn. The sinicize asian of islamic means that men are not allowed to wear, beard and women cannot wear hijabs. Unlike, hear from our village and in china means the freedom to practice religion as chairman xi sees fit. That is not freedom. That is tyranny. I close with the case of dr. Goshen abbas, a uyghur medical doctor who was forcibly disappeared in 2018. He was sentenced in 2022 a 20 year prison term because her american sister, rashawn abbas, criticize the ccp from here, within america. I know the situation well because rashawn was my state of the union guest. She has Serious Health conditions and has never been involved in political activism whatsoever. As with others, i say to the ccp, release her and the others now. I yield back. Thank, you Ranking Member. If any other member wishes to speak, or make our statement to the record. The statements will be added to the record. We are deeply privileged this evening to hear from two firsthand witnesses to the weaker genocide. We are honored to have with us tonight, miss cuba hard hodgepodge, it an incredibly brave woman who spent two years in xinjiang camp. Shes the author of how i survived the chinese reeducation camp, the Uyghur Womens story. The First Published account describing life inside the camp, miss haitiwaji lives and friends with her family and were incredibly grateful that she traveled here to share her story with us. We are also privileged to be joined by miss kelvin or is to, duke a human rights activist and witness to the genocide in xinjiang. Miss soup worked as a chinese language teacher for a Primary School student before she was assigned to work as a teacher in the reeducation camp after seeing and experiencing the atrocities firsthand, she became an extraordinary advocate for all those languishing under the thumb of the ccp. She resides in the netherlands and we are grateful that she traveled to be with us here tonight. Welcome and thank you for being with us here tonight this evening. If you could please stand and raise your right hand, i will now swear you in. Do you swear or affirm under penalty of perjury, that the testimony youre about to give is true and correct to the best of your knowledge and information so help you god . [inaudible] you may be seated, let the record show that the witnesses have answered in the informative. Please be seated. Thank you. Miss haitiwaji, you may begin. [speaking nonenglish] translator my name is gulbahar haitiwaji, since 2006 i lived in france. At the end of 2016 i was lured back to china to do my retirement process. Before i went back to china, my passport was taken and then they sent me to these detention camps for three years. [speaking nonenglish] translator first they checked my face, and then they detained. The condition in the detention camps were horrible. Although women were shackled in our language was prohibited to speak. [speaking nonenglish] [speaking nonenglish] translator and in the name of taking us out of the cells and to see the fresh air, when reality they tortured us on the cold weather. And they also interrogated us from time to time, each time they interrogated us they put black hoods on our heads, and they shackled us and they uncovered us and then they took off to the Interrogation Room. It took us to an Interrogation Room and then they interrogated us. [speaking nonenglish] 1st of april 2017, the ultimate detainees would be chained onto the bed. I was chain to the bid for 20 days. [speaking nonenglish] translator there are cameras all over the camp, every place. We every move was monitored. Twice a year they said they would administer a vaccination, but in reality, after vaccination, all the womens periods stopped. [speaking nonenglish] translator i spent two different types of concentration camps. One was they were detained from 17 years old to 70 years old. And there was later they moved me today from camp which happened on october 18th, 2018. It took us to a new camp. But the building that the new camp they invested, allotted costs huge amount. From that camp i could imagine that the china systematic abuse against the uyghurs was something that was not a short term plan. It is long term plan. [speaking nonenglish] translator we spent 11 hours in that camp to learn brainwashing education. Nick was the history, laura and we have to sing read songs. At the end of each weekend we have to test about what weve learned. [speaking nonenglish] translator in the new camp, on november 5th, 2018, the organized group of poor people together and they brought us to trial. The trial they asked they sentenced me to seven years jail. [speaking nonenglish] translator if we found out we spoke our language they would lock us in a separate room, they would leave us for 24 to 72 hours and lock us in a tight chair. They would keep us until we say that were never gonna speak that language. [speaking nonenglish] translator with the excuse of reeducation, they tried to innocent people. The reason for detention was simply that some people were a head scarf or kept a quran in the couch or they went to Foreign Countries and connected with a foreign country. Detained people included the professionals and intellectuals. [speaking uyghur] translator march 13th, 2019, they moved me to a bit better conditions in a detention facility. But that facility all had to do was eat and rest. [inaudible] for that detention i stayed under the supervision or monitoring of three male guards and eight female policeman. They had to feed me because i was i lost so much weight and i wait less than 50 kilograms. In order to that purpose was because, after i went back to france and they made sure that they wanted to prove that i was detained in a concentration camp and there was genocide happening in they fed me before they sent me to france. [speaking uyghur] translator ,. Before i came to france, the police boss told me that whatever i witnessed in the concentration camp, i should not talk about it. If i do they said they would retaliate against my family members back home. And wr he had witnessed in the concentration camp i should not talk about it. If i do they said they would retaliate against my family members back home and the consequences and they would pay for those consequences. [speaking native language] after i came to france with my experience and was published and after my book published chinas government accused means that i am a terrorist. I lost contact with my family. Thank you. Thank you for sharing your story you are now recognized for your opening statement. [speaking native language] translator distinguish ladies and gentlemen i am a concentration camp witness. On march 92017 i was sent to the concentration camp which is in the district for six months. [speaking native language] translator this is a full building and it is covered with razor wire and inside the building the policeman looks like a war zone. [speaking native language] the detained male prisoners 90 percent of them 17 years old through 40 years old through 70 years old. [speaking native language] there are between 30 and 40 prisoners detained. [speaking native language] and even to be monitored they have to spend it and also none of them had any shower in six months. [speaking native language] translator like this they came and shackled. And and so they are unable to expand so they have to crawl out in the classrooms for reeducation. [speaking native language] translator mother in the classroom or outside they call you by a number and then take you for interrogation the room is located not too far so hour 30 minutes said they have taken to hear horrible screaming sounds because they are interrogating. [speaking native language] translator there are four types of methods when his electric helmet, electric love and the chair. [speaking native language] translator after the interrogation on interrogation and torture we are unable to come for weeks and months. [speaking native language] translator from september through november, 2017 i was moved to the six floor building which kept female prisoners. [speaking native language] translator there is no balcony on these buildings 10000 female prisoners detained. [speaking native language] translator the old female prisoners the hair was shaved and they were wearing a gray uniform. And those is only, numbers. [speaking native language] translator this email prisoners were given unknown medicine and taking blood from them. [speaking native language] translator 90 percent of the prisoners are from 18 through 40 years old. After they take the medicine that period period even the women who were breastfeeding the babies it will stop after taking the medicine. [speaking native language]. I have witnessed that it nonstop for two months because of bleeding, she passed away. I have witnessed the death of the girl. [speaking native language] [speaking native language]. Sixty outside camp is not different its like an open prison. Outside the camp they are monitoring sterilization. For example this is the policy issued by the government by these policies many women need to insert iuds and sterilized. [speaking native language]. B6 just like many other women in my homeland. At the end of may 2019 i was sterilized in hospital. [speaking native language] b6 china issued another policy. And through that policy face abuse, race and humiliation on the chinese at their own houses. And for. One of the chinese officers stayed at my house. There are five policies staying together. [speaking native language]. Translator five together eat together, cook together, learn together, and sightseeing together. [speaking native language] jen for before the mail chinese officials why staying in the house, at my house . They date one week initially. Their state when im cooking in the kitchen or doing something the chinese official would come just to relentlessly touch all over my body and by showing the paper saying look in the policy standard we can cook together, do things together. Excuse me or praise meet my cooking and they try to touch me and abuse me and kind of humiliate me. [speaking native language] and for before from 2018 there many slave factories. There are many detained on the people detained in the concentration camps were forced to work in the slave factories. And for them for 2019 with the help of my netherland citizen daughter i was able to escape the netherlands. I was able. However because simply he is unable to come with me. [speaking native language] [speaking native language]. Translator from generate 2020 i start to speak out about the genocide that happened in my homeland. My witness testimony is published in guarding, bbc and cnn. After these the use my husband and they contacted me. [speaking native language]. Translator this is a policeman, he used my husband and my sisters a video and run me on february 18, 2021. He forced me too work for Chinese Government and i refused. Then four. [speaking native language] before just one day before the tribunal happened june 4, 2021. Again my husband chat and reached out to me. They used very abusive languages against me. And also at the end they fo