On May 8, Olivia Enos, director of the Hong Kong Freedom Committee's Washington office, published an article in Forbes magazine, expressing her deep sadness at the prospect of Uyghur children separated from their parents.
In her article, "The Urgency of Protecting Uyghur Children and Their Parents," Olivia Enos explains how her motherly care for Uyghur children feels different:
“As I write this article, my first son is 10 weeks old. This boy is going to be very important to me soon. I have to be responsible for raising him and keeping him safe.
"Although I know the brutality and horror of the genocide and crimes against humanity committed by the communist Chinese government against the Uyghur Muslims, my newborn son made me feel even more the pain of children separated from their parents by the Chinese government."
In an interview with our radio station, Olivia Enos said about the motherhood that prompted her to write this article: "Although I know the genocide and crimes against humanity that the Uyghurs have faced and are still going on, every Uyghur family after becoming a first-time mother after giving birth to my son at the end of February I gained a deeper understanding of the violence and conspiracies I faced. I realized the importance of the bond between mother and child and how China tried to break this bond. Although the Chinese government does not see the family as the center of society, the place where values and sense of identity are inculcated, they are doing just that. I mean, China is taking away the most fundamental characteristic of humanity and the unity of the family from the Uyghurs."
In this article, Olivia Enos mentions three videos that influenced her. This week, the Zimistan network released three videos of Uyghur children between the ages of 5 and 10, in which the Uyghur children speak Chinese and say they love and join the Chinese Liberation Army. That is, they say whatever the Chinese teach.
Adrian Zeniz, who conducted a systematic study using Chinese government documents, announced that there are 900,000 Uyghur children separated from their parents by the Chinese government, and that these children will be educated entirely in Chinese. The above videos prove that the Chinese government has transformed those children with Chinese education and awareness.
Olivia Enos said: “I think anyone who sees the faces of these boys, who hears the words they're being forced to say, can feel the oppression that these children are going through. "I mean, when I look at those boys' faces, I look at my son's face and I think, oh God, I'm never going to let my son be brainwashed like that."
Olivia Enos writes in this article: "It is known that the Chinese government separated Uyghur children from their parents, with the ultimate goal of making these Uyghur children follow the Party, not their parents. Some of the children were orphaned because their parents were also sent to camps or prisons as political criminals. An estimated 1.8 to 3 million people died in these camps. Some of them are sent to other parts of China and are forced to work. "Because the Chinese government aborted the children of Uyghur women and made them sterile, some Uyghur children were not even born."
Olivia Enos told the US Congress: "Uyghur children and their families must be our first priority. The U.S. Congress and the executive branch should not do anything about the closure of these camps and the release of the prisoners. The U.S. House Committee on Chinese Affairs, the Special Committee on U.S.-China Rivalry, and other committees should investigate and testify about the Communist Chinese government's de-ethnicization of Uyghur children, and punish the Chinese officials responsible for brainwashing Uyghur children by sentencing them to orphanages. The U.S. Congress and government should grant second-class asylum to victimized Uyghur families and bring them safely across our borders; Members of the U.S. Congress should also continue to advocate for the release of kidnapped Uyghur children like Rachel Omar. (Raheela Omar was only 15 years old when she was kidnapped in 2018).”
Olivia Enos expressed the urgency of rescuing Uyghur children and their parents: "I think we need to find individuals who violate human rights and oppress people in this way. The US government has already declared China's actions as genocide and crimes against humanity, which means that the crime is not over, but is still ongoing. So it is necessary to take measures against it. Therefore, I hope that the members of the US National Assembly will recognize this point and continue to make efforts to do more to protect the innocent children who have become the targets of China's attacks.
Olivia Enos concludes her article by saying, "I am writing this article on maternity leave, and I hope that people around the world will help and protect my son, even if I cannot help. Motherhood knows no borders. We stand with the Uyghurs who have been separated from their beloved children. We will not return from this path until every Uyghur child is free and achieves his dream.
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