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Kashgal is located in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in western China.Here, there is a possibility that the police will be reported to grow the beard.Even if you call too much for a wedding, or even if your child is called "Muhammad" or "Medina", it may be.

When you go to a nearby town by car or bus, there is a checkpoint waiting.Armed police officers check for banned apps such as "Facebook" or "Twitter" on the mobile phone of passers, scrolling text messages, and using some religious words.Sometimes I check it.

If you are a resident here, you will be nervous to call a family or friend abroad.A few hours later, the police may come to the house and ask questions that seem to have been eavesdropped.

4 hours by plane from Beijing. For millions of residents living in this land at the western end of China, this dystopia future has already become a reality. China has already deployed the world's most advanced Internet censorship system throughout the country, but is now building a precise surveillance nation in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. It is a nation that uses the latest technology and human security to monitor all aspects of citizens' daily life. The autonomous area is home to the Uyghur ethnic minorities. The Chinese government has accused the Uyghur tribe for forming an independent movement group and expanding terrorism. Since the spring of 2017, thousands of Uyghur and other ethnic minorities have been sent to the so -called "political education center" and disappeared. According to the relatives of the detainors, the use of social media apps made in Europe and the United States and studying abroad in Islamic countries seem to be the reason.

For the past two months, I have interviewed more than 20 Uyghur people and talked about life in the area.Some of them were just exiled and still living in Xinjiang.The majority wanted anonymous.If the name was published, he was afraid that his family would be restrained and arrested.

When they talked about what they talked about with the government and corporate records, the whole political system emerged.It is a completely modernized political system, reminiscent of paranoia in the Mao Zedong period, but also combines high -pressure security against extraterritis acts with high -tech tools such as iris recognition and eavesdropping on mobile phones.

The Chinese government has stated that Xinjiang needs safety measures because the Uyghur militant violence lurks.A turmoil has occurred regularly in the field.Approximately 200 people died in the riot in 2009.In 2013-14, attacks using knives and bombs occurred one after another, which also killed them.The Chinese government mentions the funds that have been injected into the Economic Development of Xinjiang, programs that make Uyghur universities and facilitates employment in government agencies, and argued that the Chinese government has improved the life of the Uyghur.ing.He asked Xinjiang's Public Safety and Public Public Activity Authorities for comments, but did not answer.Meanwhile, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China says that it does not know the surveillance system developed by the local government.

Asked the Press Le Kang of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for the reason why the surveillance system is needed, "I want to emphasize the fact that the people of Xinjiang are enjoying the happiness and peaceful labor and living environment."Told.He "I have never heard of local authorities about surveillance systems."

However, analysts and human rights organizations pointed out that 9 million Uyghur living in Xinjiang was suffering due to the behavior of a single hand.The Uyghurs account for about half of the Xinjiang population.They say that these repression pours oil into anger fire and causes extremism.

According to the people interviewed this time, the eyes of government surveillance seen everywhere in Xinjiang also affect the very common aspects of daily life.She says that a sophisticated young Uyghur woman, D, a sophisticated young Uyghur, has become unable to contact her grandmother living in a small village in Xinjiang.

He says that D is called to his grandmother, and a few hours later, the police will call him to the grandmother's house and call D in front of them.

Mr. D, who sits in my face -to -face cafe near the office, explodes the anger, saying, "I can't talk about how to destroy China with an 85 -year -old grandmother and I!"rice field.

After engagement, D invites relatives living in Xinjiang to a wedding.It was almost impossible for the Uyghur to get a passport, so D -Mr. D decided to postpone the wedding for several months, hoping that the situation would turn.

In May, D and her mother finally made a video call with relatives on the popular messaging platform "WeChat" in China.When D asked for the local area, they answered that there was no problem.One of them, feared by police eavesdropping, raised a handwritten signboard.It stated that "I couldn't get a passport."

Mr. D was depressed, but nodded and continued the conversation.After the call was over, she suddenly began to cry.

"Don't be misunderstood. I don't support the suicide bomber terrorist criminals and criminals who attack good citizens," said D."But at that time I told her mother that they could understand their feelings. I was able to understand their feelings because I was driven by intense anger."

The Chinese government has paid billions of people in the state -of -the -art technology to monitor Xinjiang.It is a technique such as a face certificate camera installed at a gas station and a drone that patrols the border.