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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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  • Geobloke@aussie.zoneEnglish
    43·
    1 day ago

    Too bad China had a habit of cracking down on journalists it doesn’t like. Imagine if the west could send someone in there to prove you right

    • davel [he/him]@lemmy.mlEnglish
      33·
      1 day ago

      Bullshit. You can go to Xinjiang and see for yourself, as millions do each year.

      “What we are dealing with is a nonfalsifiable orthodoxy”. From Michael Parenti’s Blackshirts & Reds:

      In the United States, for over a hundred years, the ruling interests tirelessly propagated anticommunism among the populace, until it became more like a religious orthodoxy than a political analysis. During the cold war, the anticommunist ideological framework could transform any data about existing communist societies into hostile evidence. If the Soviets refused to negotiate a point, they were intransigent and belligerent; if they appeared willing to make concessions, this was but a skillful ploy to put us off our guard. By opposing arms limitations, they would have demonstrated their aggressive intent; but when in fact they supported most armament treaties, it was because they were mendacious and manipulative. If the churches in the USSR were empty, this demonstrated that religion was suppressed; but if the churches were full, this meant the people were rejecting the regime’s atheistic ideology. If the workers went on strike (as happened on infrequent occasions), this was evidence of their alienation from the collectivist system; if they didn’t go on strike, this was because they were intimidated and lacked freedom. A scarcity of consumer goods demonstrated the failure of the economic system; an improvement in consumer supplies meant only that the leaders were attempting to placate a restive population and so maintain a firmer hold over them.

      If communists in the United States played an important role struggling for the rights of workers, the poor, African-Americans, women, and others, this was only their guileful way of gathering support among disfranchised groups and gaining power for themselves. How one gained power by fighting for the rights of powerless groups was never explained. What we are dealing with is a nonfalsifiable orthodoxy, so assiduously marketed by the ruling interests that it affected people across the entire political spectrum.

      • Geobloke@aussie.zoneEnglish
        43·
        1 day ago

        Cool, looks like you can use copy and paste, but don’t really say anything about journalists. Which on the topic.

        Nice of you to assume i can afford a ticket to East Kazakhstan to verify ML bullshit, but I can’t. Instead I need to trust media organisations and the international community. Can’t really trust Chinese state media as they arrested Cheng Lei and Yeng Hengjun and sentenced them behind a closed trial. They also tried to arrest Bill Birtles and Mike Smith for espionage.

        https://youtu.be/t-axd1Ht_J8 Discussing China’s set up of a prison network in East Kazakhstan

        Not that I think any of these will really dissuade YOU, but others who read this will know you are full of it

        • davel [he/him]@lemmy.mlEnglish
          33·
          1 day ago

          Nice of you to assume i can afford a ticket to East Kazakhstan

          Whether you can afford it or not, you’d be going to the wrong place. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Kazakhstan_Region

          Discussing China’s set up of a prison network in East Kazakhstan

          If Kazakhstan has prisons then talk to Kazakhstan. Anyway, both Kazakhstan and China have prisons because every country has them, some more than others. China has roughly the same number of prisoners per capita as Australia, and Kazakhstan has slightly more.

          Not that I think any of these will really dissuade YOU, but others who read this will know you are full of it

          Except for the ones who don’t think I’m full of it, and also the ones who know I’m not full of it.