Canada's Parliament just voted to declare it a genocide. https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/uighur-genocide-motion-vote-1.5922711 And I've been seeing a lot of conflicting takes on it on twitter and here. From what I can gather from researching the main issue is lack of indication of full on genocide there, but there also seems to be a fair amount of evidence that these camps do exist. I fail to see how that is "good" as people on this site appear to be indicating?

    • Civility [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      I'm not the one who made that "inflammatory comparison". The Chinese Communist Party did. For as long as Bush's War On Terror was a thing the CPC was trying to equate what they were doing in the Xinjiang with it.

      As I said in the end of the sentence you only quoted the first part of

      that the CPC repeatedly tried to equate it with.

      🙄

      I don't appreciate being accused of using weasel words.

      The source is the official government news website for the Xinjiang Autonomous Region Tianshan net.

      Tianshan net's archive only goes back to October 2017 and this happened in March, but the SCMP reported on it sourcing the website here.

    • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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      4 years ago

      Yeah the NED (CIA affiliate) funded terrorist groups in the region. The CIA is absolutely involved in this issue, and the person you are replying to makes a reductive argument there.