A tropical storm pushes the Japanese government to evacuate hundreds of thousands of residents
Heavy rains accompany a tropical storm that hits Japan, and the government issues non-mandatory directives to evacuate residents from affected areas, and scientists warn of the effects of global warming on Japan
The Japanese authorities issued non-mandatory advisories to hundreds of thousands of residents in the central and western regions of the country due to the passage of Tropical Storm Mawar, which caused heavy rains.
The eye of the storm, which was previously classified as a hurricane when it hit strongly at the end of May, the US island of Guam, was Friday in the Pacific Ocean, southwest of Japan.
The evacuation directives included more than 410,000 people in Toyota City, in the central district of Aichi, and another 130,000 in Toyohashi, in the same district.
JR Central has suspended high-speed trains between Tokyo and Obaka, and more than 260 flights have been cancelled, according to public television.
Government spokesman Hirokazu Matsuno called on residents in the affected areas to "exercise extreme caution in the face of risks of landslides, floods and rising rivers."
According to scientists, global warming increases the risk of heavy rains in Japan, as hot air masses carry more steam.
In July 2021, heavy rains caused a huge mudslide in the coastal resort of Atami (southwest of Tokyo), leaving 27 dead.
Major floods in Kyushu (southwest Japan) killed more than 80 people in 2020. Two years earlier, the archipelago witnessed the worst floods in decades, during which more than 200 people were killed in the west of the country.
Expatriate Mamattokhti Imin found information about his two sons and a daughter-in-law in the "Old City Police Archives" : Uighur
Last year, the "Xinjiang Police Archives" released by the American Communist Victims Memorial Foundation informed a group of Uighurs abroad about their missing relatives. 82-year-old Mamtokhti Imin, who is currently living in Turkey, learned about his two sons and a daughter-in-law from his relatives who have not been able to get information for 5 years. The records show that her two sons, aged 11 and 7, were killed.
Internationally known as the "Xinjiang Police Archives", the archive originally belonged to the Old Town County Police Department, and contains more than 2,800 pictures of hostages and information on hundreds of hostages. In addition to holding the majority of hostages in Old Town County, the file also contains information on hostages from several other counties and cities in Texas. Although experts have come to a conclusion about the authenticity of this document through scientific observation and analysis, the Chinese side, as before, is promoting that these documents are fake and created by anti-Chinese people. Uighurs abroad are giving testimonials on official and social media about relatives and acquaintances they know from these documents.
82-year-old brother Mamttokhti Imin, who is currently living in Turkey, received an interview with our radio today, May 31, and stated that he received information about his two sons and a daughter-in-law from the "Old City Police Archives". He said that his eldest son, Polat, was 11 years old, and his youngest son, Gabpar, was 7 years old.
It turns out that Polat was originally a community leader in the village. He was kidnapped in mid-2017 and sentenced to 11 years in prison in 2018. Gappar, who has a certain religious background and is currently running a drug store, was kidnapped in early 2017 and sentenced to 7 years in prison in the middle of the same year. Both were charged with disorderly conduct by mob, according to the document. Brother Mamtokhti emphasizes that his sons were punished only because of their ethnic identity and Uighurness, while noting that their sons are people of sound faith and morals.
Mamat's brother, from this list, he found information about his daughter-in-law Hawanisa and his daughter-in-law's brother Pazil Amet. Mamet said that the file contains 31 pages of information about Langgar village in his hometown.
After the release of this file, it was reported in the international news that the old city of Kashgar is the county with the highest number of hostages in the world, and the number of prisoners in the old city is more than 10 times more than the number of prisoners in the United States.
After the "Old City Police Files" were released, the photos of the 2,800 captives in the files revealed that the "training centers" were not vocational training centers, as the Chinese claimed, but rather severe torture centers.
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