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Tortured in huge internment camps, forced labour and mass sterilisations: The Chinese state’s attack on the Uyghur people, an ethnic minority in western China, is akin to genocide, with an estimated one million people arbitrarily detained. An in-depth look at how Beijing has committed grave human rights offences over decades.

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[–] Lmaydev@programming.dev 20 points 2 years ago

It's not akin to genocide. It is textbook genocide.

[–] tardigrada@beehaw.org 8 points 2 years ago

Sinicization of Islam in China is genocidal ---[Opinion]

It has been reported that more than one million ethnic minorities have been killed, arrested and forced into detention camps/prisons, what is referred to in Beijing as “re-education camps”, like the one witnessed during the Cultural Revolution. In reality, minority people are subjected to humiliation, torture and political indoctrination in these so-called camps to make them “de-radicalised”. China claims this to be an effective way of “tacking extremism”, whereby, once de-radicalised, these people would acquire skills to be employable and contribute to the economy. The mass internment system has affected not only those subjected to the state crackdown but also the family members of those incarcerated, especially children.

[–] watson387@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] tardigrada@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago

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