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?

  • Yun [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    There’s nothing inherently terroristic about expressing Uyghur cultural identity or practicing the Islamic faith, and both of those things have been criminalised in the Xinjiang Autonomous Region. There are laws against wearing veils or “unusual” beards

    Can you expand on the practicing Islamic faith being criminalized? I was aware of unauthorized religious gatherings in general being banned but nothing specific to Islam.

    While the veil/beard thing is bad, do we know that veils and "unusual" beards are a part of Uyghur culture?