China using families as 'hostages' to quash Uyghur dissent abroad
www.bbc.co.uk
Refugees and activists tell the BBC intimidation tactics are tearing apart Uyghur communities overseas.
      • Rakn@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        01·
        1 year ago

        I mean the nice thing about the internet is that you can at least find videos documenting what the article claims. I mean sure… it could all just be propaganda. But somehow there is a little much of it from so many different sources.

        • GarbageShootAlt2@lemmy.ml
          2·
          1 year ago

          You say this and yet, what videos? How many have you actually watched vs assumed were there vs read the headline? I’ve seen a bunch of photos and videos and all of them were either hoaxes (calling normal buildings camps), ridiculous misunderstandings (like saying the screeching of brakes was screaming victims), or gross misrepresentations (e.g. normal prison transfers being a slate of new genocide victims). But if you just skim through what just so happens to trend on Reddit, you’ll see atrocity after atrocity and not stick around long enough to see the retraction, or the people in the comments debunking it, and so on.

          There’s a reason neoliberal outlets walked their claims back to “cultural genocide” over time, because there was nothing there except the testimony of like three people from a region of 15 million.

          • Rakn@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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            1 year ago

            I mean I’ve seen a few recordings of Chinese officials calling folks abroad and making „suggestions“. That was more than just reading headlines.

            But I guess you are right. It’s likely all propaganda and China is a paradise.

    • Fazoo@lemmy.ml
      11·
      1 year ago

      Or the fact we literally have drone and camera footage of mass arrests. I’m not one to view Vice these days, but one of their reporters went there and saw some rather suggestive situations as well.

      After Trump was so nice (dumb) enough to showcase just how clear US satellite photos are these days, one has to question why some here are so quick to cry in China’s defense. Especially after the very public take over of Hong Kong, you think an ethnic cleanse is out of the question?

      I’m sure some pro-Chinese twit will come rushing in with some whataboutism or a crack on US history, as if that excuses things.

      • OurToothbrush@lemmy.mlM
        05·
        1 year ago

        Especially after the very public take over of Hong Kong, you think an ethnic cleanse is out of the question?

        You’re projecting. China exempted ethnic minorities from the one child policy, that is how anti “han supremacist”(which itself is just white supremacist projection) they are.

        And the people of Hong Kong are 90 percent Han.

    • fishtacos@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      We put a lot of stock in personal stories, but we also pay a lot for incriminating evidence against China.

      Do you know about the 1 child policy (That was recently ended?) And how that affects this? Because I actually looked into it. But I bet an online personality won’t change your mind. So I won’t even bother.

      Remember America didn’t forcefully sterilize anyone. We just straight up bombed them, raped them, and shot them.

      Your biases are showing.