Recognize the CCP’s Double Persecution in Xinjiang

Women’s double vulnerability is not unique to Uyghurs. In the last decade, tyrants and terrorists have targeted Ezidi women in Iraq and Syria, Catholic sisters in Yemen, and Rohingya women in Myanmar and Bangladesh. Likewise, the attack is “gendered” because women are wives, mothers, and conduits of religion, tradition, and culture. For a regime to destroy the institutions of family and faith, it is not enough to kill women. The gendered nature of their being—and their natural roles in society—must also be destroyed. As atrocities in Central America demonstrated, mass rape is used as a weapon of war because it not only destroys families and communities in the present but also disrupts their formation for generations into the future.  Read Full Article »