cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/48071860
A new report by Genocide Watch, a rights group, concludes that the Chinese Communist Party’s policies against Uyghur Muslims meet multiple advanced stages of genocide under international law.
The report finds that the Chinese government’s actions in Chinese-occupied East Turkistan aka the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region span Stages 3, 8, 9, and 10 of genocide. These include systematic discrimination, mass persecution through detention and torture, exterminatory acts such as mass rape and the removal of Uyghur children, and ongoing denial by Chinese authorities and their international defenders.
Genocide Watch documents the use of mass detention camps, forced political indoctrination, bans on the Uyghur language, widespread destruction of mosques, forced labor programs, coercive population control policies, and the separation of Uyghur children from their families into Mandarin-only institutions. The report warns that these acts constitute both genocide and crimes against humanity under the Genocide Convention.
“This report removes any remaining ambiguity,” said Arslan Hidayat, Team Lead of the Save Uyghur Campaign. “Genocide Watch is clear that what is happening to Uyghurs is not cultural policy or counterterrorism. It is a coordinated campaign that has reached the extermination and denial stages of genocide. Governments that continue business as usual with Beijing are choosing complicity over accountability.”
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“These recommendations are not radical. They are the minimum legal and moral obligations of states that claim to uphold human rights,” said Imam Abdul Malik Mujahid, President of Justice For All. “The stages of genocide identified in this report are a warning to the world. History will judge whether governments acted when the evidence was undeniable or looked away while an entire people were erased.”
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They linked it because of the reason Volkswagen was selling the factory.
You either didn’t read the article (I get it, it’s paywalled) or you’re intentionally misrepresenting the link.
Either one makes your argument look bad.
Transcript of the article
Volkswagen VOW3 -0.38% has sold a car plant in China’s Xinjiang region that has drawn scrutiny over alleged human-rights abuses.
The Urumqi site, which is owned by a joint venture between VW and local partner SAIC Motor 600104 -0.32%, has been a source of controversy in recent years because of China’s alleged persecution of Uyghur minorities in the Xinjiang region.
Drawing scrutiny and allegations are not proof.
You’re drawing scrutiny from me right now that you’re a terrorist. I’m alleging that you’re a terrorist. Should we take these statements to court? Is that proof you’re a terrorist?
Another poster already broke down why there is no evidence in this articles or the sources it’s based upon. And claims without evidence may be dismissed without evidence.
Quoting allegations isn’t exactly the dunk you think it is when you’re dealing with folks who value facts.
They’re from .ML, what do you think it is?
Yep, it’s dogma over there that either it isn’t happening or the victims deserve it. ML or related governments are incapable of doing wrong or horrific things. To them that is something only the West can do.
The “proof” is “attracted attention in the West” and “under pressure from investors” - and then it found no such proof in the factory.
Why the wind down? Mentioned in the linked article from the year before:
That time Brandstätter also said he saw nothing. Now, I’m not inclined to believe what some capitalist corpo guy says about working conditions, but this whole thing is obviously political pressure, because Germany does not want their big manufacturing corpos so deeply involved in China, as it draws capital and jobs away from the country, the whole Uyghur angle is used as a reason to build pressure.
The report asserts: “Global scrutiny of supply chains linked to Xinjiangfactories resulted in Volkswagen’s exit from Urumqi”, which is not true or if so only in the sense that the pressure resulted in the closure, but not actual abuses.
This is also clear, when you check other linked articles, for example under “a source of criticism in Germany”, which is a union leader lamenting about exactly that and also using the same age old allegations as an argument that are used every time, although economic interests are the real reason he opened his mouth in the first place.
Later in the report even notorious discredited one-man-source Adrian Zenz, ideologue and religious extremist himself is being used as source for their judgement. It’s a sham. It’s political propaganda.
This whole little one-page “report” does not bring anything new to the table. They made up some criteria and released a report towards the end of the year, so the myth is being kept alive and accounts like Hotznplotzn, that do literally nothing else other then posting Anti-China and Anti-Russia propaganda, can rile you up and manufacture consent against them.
Stop being so gullible. There is no new proof for anything. It’s a rehash to gain attention. OP is right.