• Shezzagrad@lemmy.ml
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    16 hours ago

    Be genuinely honest, what did it seem like for the local uguyrs? Do you think the west interpretation of what's going on there true or an exaggeration?

    • Flyberius [comrade/them]
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      14 minutes ago

      They are doing fine. I spoke with many of them, and in the rare occasion when politics came up and I mentioned the western line about the genocide there reactions ranged from laughter to outright horror. I ate their food. Danced with them in the public squares as Chinese people of all ethnicities are prone to doing. Their culture is celebrated in China, not suppressed. People come from all over China to experience it. China is very proud of the (I think) 56 ethnicities that compromise their country. It is enshrined in their laws that they are to be protected. The idea that they would just casually decide to snuff one of them out is absurd. And why now? Why didn't they do this when they founded the state?

      There is a high security presence in Xinjiang. The state borders multiple countries and has been subject to American backed Arab spring fuckery.