The Economist did some great reporting on this a few months back, and it's good to see that the issue is starting to get even more notice across the world.
The Chinese government are basically building a massive surveillance-state in the regions the Uyghur people live, complete with ever-present police, informant networks and possibly over a million people being forced into "re-education camps" (where it's reported they're being subjected to everything from beatings to other forms of abuse). Makes for some pretty grim reading.
I understand that the real reason why they're going after the Uyghur is to squelsh any separatist initiatives and that their religion happens to be a convenient tool to use against them but as someone born to Muslim parents I don't even wanna step into China at all now. I'd come to peace with their heavy surveillance because it just seemed like Chinese citizens had a different set of priorities in life but this ethnic cleansing makes me way too uncomfortable.
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The Economist did some great reporting on this a few months back, and it's good to see that the issue is starting to get even more notice across the world.
The Chinese government are basically building a massive surveillance-state in the regions the Uyghur people live, complete with ever-present police, informant networks and possibly over a million people being forced into "re-education camps" (where it's reported they're being subjected to everything from beatings to other forms of abuse). Makes for some pretty grim reading.
https://www.economist.com/briefing/2018/05/31/china-has-turn...
Yeah I'm glad this is being cast into the light.
I understand that the real reason why they're going after the Uyghur is to squelsh any separatist initiatives and that their religion happens to be a convenient tool to use against them but as someone born to Muslim parents I don't even wanna step into China at all now. I'd come to peace with their heavy surveillance because it just seemed like Chinese citizens had a different set of priorities in life but this ethnic cleansing makes me way too uncomfortable.