Kabul: Terror of the Taliban has become so deedful that the native Turkic ethnic group Uyghurs living in Afghanistan are fearing that they could be sent back to China by the outfit to appease the Chinese regime.
According to a report of CNN, in the last few years, Uyghurs are worried that they could be deported to China, which in recent times have escalated religious crackdown in Xinjiang.
Up to 2 million Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities are believed to have passed through a sprawling network of detention centers across the region, according to the US State Department.
Uyghurs said that they thought the Taliban, who are in dire need of economic support, would not hesitate to exchange people for Chinese financial aid.
They are most fearful that the Taliban will eventually give them back to China, and China will just shoot them.
He said he was born in Afghanistan, the son of exiled Uyghur parents who came to Afghanistan in 1961 from China’s autonomous region of Xinjiang.
Speaking with CNN, a local said, he is caught between a homeland where Uyghurs are facing increasing repression and an adopted country where they are considered outsiders.
Former detainees allege they were subjected to intense political indoctrination, forced labor, torture, and even sexual abuse.
China vehemently denies allegations of human rights abuses, insisting the camps are voluntary “vocational training centers” designed to stamp out religious extremism and terrorism.
Tuhan said she fears what will happen to her and her family if they’re forced to return.
“All these past years, life was difficult … But what is happening now is the worst,” he said, referring to the Taliban takeover.
Many of them fled China after the Communist Party took control of Xinjiang in 1949. Some people migrated in the mid-1970s, during the chaos of the last years of the Cultural Revolution, crossing mountain passes in the south of Xinjiang to seek refuge.
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