{"id":12827,"date":"2022-10-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-11T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/savetibet.nl\/nieuws\/chinas-100-day-crackdown-on-crimes-and-tibet-ahead-of-party-congress\/"},"modified":"2022-10-12T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-10-11T22:00:00","slug":"chinas-100-day-crackdown-on-crimes-and-tibet-ahead-of-party-congress","status":"publish","type":"nieuws","link":"https:\/\/savetibet.nl\/en\/news\/chinas-100-day-crackdown-on-crimes-and-tibet-ahead-of-party-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s 100-day \u201ccrackdown on crimes\u201d and Tibet ahead of Party Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On 25 June 2022, China\u2019s Ministry of Security launched a 100-day crackdown labelled \u201cHundred Days Action\u201d targeting illegal activities related to crimes against women, children, the elderly, the disabled and powerless groups in society.[1]<\/sup> While reportedly prompted by a public outcry over police inaction in response to the assault of four women in Lubei district of Tangshen city, Hebei province on June 10, the crackdown has evolved into a campaign targeting gang crime and gradually shifting to enforcing \u201cstability\u201d in the lead-up to the 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, which begins on 16 October. In Tibet, in the run-up to the 20th National Congress, several apparently politically motivated arrests have been reported in the past months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The National Congress, held every five years, will discuss governance plans and priorities. During the meeting, Xi Jinping will be given an unprecedented third term as General-Secretary of the Communist Party of China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 100-day campaign began on 25 June 2022, and accordingly was to end last week. Its focus expanded from gang crimes against the vulnerable to so-called \u201cseparatist\u201d activities. As a result of the campaign, several Tibetans were reportedly arrested for possessing photos of the Dalai Lama or sharing information with contacts abroad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 100-day campaign suggests that, once again, the Chinese authorities are using a vaguely defined mission to arbitrarily, indiscriminately and without accountability limit the freedoms of Tibetans inside Tibet. This 100-day crackdown and its efforts to control and silence Tibetans has already transitioned and morphed into the security and stability maintenance plan for the 20th Party Congress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a departure from past pre-Congress strategies, the Chinese government has steered clear of provocative language that explicitly targets \u201cseparatists,\u201d \u201cthe Dalai Clique\u201d or \u201canti-China Western forces.\u201d It has instead employed vague and general language<\/a> emphasizing the use of the political and legal apparatus to \u201cresolutely adhere to the bottom line of \u2018no trouble, no chaos to the central government,\u2019\u201d \u201cstrictly supervise and inspect,\u201d \u201ckeep an eye on key areas,\u201d \u201cdiscover hidden problems in a timely manner and rectify promptly\u201d and \u201censure implementation with iron discipline.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A campaign to silence critics and distract from government incompetence<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Despite fears of rising crime across China, Qiu Baoli, head of the security administration bureau at the Ministry of Public Security, reported<\/a> in the first half of this year that criminal cases nationwide fell by 16.3% year on year, and people\u2019s sense of security has steadily improved. Given the decrease in reported instances<\/a> of crime and the shifting focus to gang violence, fraud and separatism, this raises suspicions that the 100-day campaign may have been launched for other reasons, such as to enforce stability ahead of the 20th National Party Congress or to reassure citizens who feel frustrated by the cruelty and callousness of government-enforced isolation tactics during the pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the end of September, a week before the campaign\u2019s original end date, the Chinese state newspaper China Daily reported<\/a> that \u201cpolice resolved about 640,000 criminal cases and detained 1.4 million suspects\u201d during the nationwide crackdown on crime. The head of the security administration bureau even boasted about new preventative policing capabilities that have \u201caccelerated the development of a public security prevention and control system.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Local adaptations of the 100-day campaign<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

In Tibet and other so-called \u201cminority\u201d areas, the campaign is apparently being used as a cover for authorities to intensify their crackdown on those who hold dissenting views.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Such local adaptations were reported in Xinjiang (known to Uyghurs as East Turkestan) as early as August. For example, while the national 100-day anti-crime campaign focused on crimes such as theft, US broadcaster Radio Free Asia reported<\/a> that Xinjiang officials are targeting allegedly \u201cdisloyal\u201d Uyghurs who are viewed as \u201creligious extremists,\u201d \u201cseparatists,\u201d \u201cterrorists\u201d and \u201ctwo-faced persons.\u201d A police officer in Hotan (Chinese: Hetian), a major town in southwestern Xinjiang, confirmed that, \u201cPickpockets and thieves are in the periphery of our target in this operation.\u201d \u201cThe main targets are the ones I mentioned earlier [disloyal Uyghurs].\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Examples of the crackdown in Tibet<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

According to Tibet Times, a Tibetan-language news site published in India, the crackdown has been in full swing<\/a> across Tibet\u2019s capital of Lhasa, with the Lhasa police force increasing police deployment. This has led to more arbitrary police searches and monitoring, resulting in arbitrary and incommunicado detentions of Tibetans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Tibet, the 100-day campaign has also adopted a digital focus. In the last few months, the Chinese government has posted banners<\/a> in Tibetan that read, \u201cDigital security for people, Digital security depends on people\u201d and held meetings with local Tibetans warning against contacting family members and business partners outside the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moreover, several cases of arbitrary detention and disappearance have been reported from Tibet. On July 31, Tibetan exile media outlet Voice of Tibet reported<\/a> that six Tibetans from the so-called Tibet Autonomous Region were detained for unclear reasons during the 100-day campaign in Tibet. On 12 August, Karma Samdup, from Sernyi District, was arrested for wearing a Dalai Lama locket and for keeping photos of the Dalai Lama<\/a> in his car. On 13 August, a mother and daughter duo from Nagchu city were arrested<\/a>, with the daughter subjected to incommunicado detention for contacting outsiders and for sharing illegal photos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition, the recent arrest of seven Tibetans<\/a> who have been allegedly accused of sharing information and audio-visual material of repressive COVID-19 restrictions may also be treated as cases under the 100-day campaign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recurrence of the 3-year crackdown in Tibet from 2018-21<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

The nature of the campaign in Tibet and Xinjiang could be likened to the earlier three-year crackdown<\/a> on crimes called, \u201cSweep away black and eliminate evil,\u201d implemented from January 2018 to 2021. In fact, the three-year crackdown on crimes was notably invoked when the current incarnation was launched. The three-year crackdown sought to eliminate organized crimes as well as \u201csocial disorder\u201d<\/a>. It was characterized by public displays of slogans<\/a> that read, \u201cWhere there is black, sweep it, where there is no black, eliminate evil, and where there is no evil, cure disorder.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Chinese state news agency Xinhua reported that, by the end of March 2019, the campaign had uncovered 14,226 cases of \u201cblack and evil\u201d activity involving 79,018 people. The environmental and anti-corruption activist Anya Sengdra was notably sentenced to seven years in prison<\/a> in December 2019 under this campaign against \u201cblack\u201d and \u201cevil\u201d forces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Footnotes:<\/strong>
[1]<\/strong> Global Times, 28 June 2022, \u2018China launches a 100-day campaign to crack down on illegal behaviors in wake of brutality at Tangshan restaurant\u2019, https:\/\/www.globaltimes.cn\/page\/202206\/1269231.shtml<\/a>. The campaign is also referred to as the \u201cHundred Days Action\u201d on the \u201crectification of public security in summer\u201d, see, Tibet Watch, 26 August 2022, \u2018Another Tibetan arrested for possessing photos of the Dalai Lama\u2019, https:\/\/www.tibetwatch.org\/news\/2022\/8\/26\/another-tibetan-arrested-for-possessing-photos-of-the-dalai-lama<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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