• China 'legalises' internment camps for million Uighurs after the fact
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/oct/11/china-legalises-internment-camps-for-million-uighurs China’s far north-western region of Xinjiang has retroactively legitimised the use of internment camps where up to one million Muslims are being held. Chinese authorities deny that the internment camps exist but say petty criminals are sent to vocational “training centres”. Former detainees say they were forced to denounce Islam and profess loyalty to the Communist party in what they describe as political indoctrination camps. “It’s a retrospective justification for the mass detainment of Uighurs, Kazakhs and other Muslim minorities in Xinjiang,” said James Leibold, a scholar of Chinese ethnic policies at Melbourne’s La Trobe University. “It’s a new form of re-education that’s unprecedented and doesn’t really have a legal basis, and I see them scrambling to try to create a legal basis for this policy.” The international silence on this is astounding.
China stop please youre heading to genocide
China is begging for a terrorist problem
Unfortunately China knows how to quell that shit by reading 1984 and using it as a guide.
They've been committing genocide for decades, thry see no reason to stop now.
And no one is gonna do a goddamn thing.
Tibetan history for $400
Cheap goods though!
its already there
Of course not, the world is fine with holding up oppressive, genocidal regimes so long as they can offer something in return.
Pretty much. We’re starting to see it rear it’s ugly head. Russia, China, Saudi Arabia, even US. Meanwhile, Brexit is tearing up England and Europe is stuck in the middle.
People were throwing rumors that this place is going to be one of those 'camps' although it looks more like a farm to me back then
Just because China says it's legal now does not make it so.
Hey guys, friendly reminder that this has been going on since the 1990s and probably before even then. I'm honestly surprised people have been finding more about it recently. The Xiang Xang Region has always been China's hidden genocide. Remember all those knife attacks? They are likely even more prominent deeper in the mainland. Tibet has already been mentioned too, there's also Mao's great leap forward and the following famine. China is no stranger to genocide. Nationalist China was no different too during their war with Japan. Didn't want to join to fight off the Japanese invaders? You would be dragged off from your village and forcibly conscripted or killed. That 15 million death toll is likely far higher than it actually is. The Opium wars were just as brutal internally. This is just another footnote written in blood for the Chinese unfortunately.
Shout out to all the people who trust Xi Jinping more than Trump
but what would anyone do anyway? A stern letter from the UN? A big "I don't like this!" from the Pope? Go nuts and invade or something? You could march against it, but I don't think people want to take the risk either.
Legal within their borders != Legal worldwide
I trusted Xi Jinping to commit genocide and restrict human rights, and he lived up to that expectation. He's a horrible dictator who deserves to be shot a couple dozen times, but he's predictable, and not brain damaged.
Again, the question was: Would you trust [this leader] to do the right thing? Genocide and restricting human rights is not the right thing mate.
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