tweet link -> https://twitter.com/AP/status/1447147267669037057?s=20

archived -> https://web.archive.org/web/20211012141845/https://twitter.com/AP/status/1447147267669037057?s=20

For the records, here is a NED official tweet mentioning they have been "funding Uyghur groups" since 2004:

img -> https://i.imgur.com/Wr8EOYS.png

tweet -> https://twitter.com/NEDemocracy/status/1337063301113581568?s=20

archived -> https://web.archive.org/web/20211012142639/https://twitter.com/NEDemocracy/status/1337063301113581568?s=20

Here is a video someone posted below the tweet -- of a guy discussing this shift in narrative (using this article, specifically). He makes the case that the *actual* cultural genocide occurred/was occurring when Salafism was injected into the region and supported by outside actors in the Western axis. I think the video is pretty good, and, among other things, he shows that NGO internal memos refer to the "concentration camps" as 'vocational centers' -> https://youtu.be/78s7yP2BdF0?t=0

Here is Lawrence Wilkerson spilling the beans also -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrufheMU-WQ&t=0s

  • 420blazeit69 [he/him]
    ·
    3 years ago

    The worst plausible scenario is that China treated Uyghurs like the U.S. treated black people during the War on Drugs. But China started maybe ten years ago and has already stopped, where the U.S. started fifty years ago and is still going.

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
      ·
      3 years ago

      I think its curious how "Uyghur Genocide!" was a narrative that got cooked up just as we were departing Afghanistan. And now that we don't have a bunch of military assets in the neighborhood, we're being told that everything is settling back down again.

      Really big :soviet-hmm: moment.

      I'll be even more curious to see how Chinese bureaucrats interface with the new Taliban government, and whether Americans rediscover their fear and loathing of Muslims as a result.