China makes contentious comparison between Gaza and Xinjiang
China makes contentious comparison between Gaza and Xinjiang
Chinese state-affiliated social media accounts are using Israel's fight against Hamas to highlight Beijing's treatment of Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang.
"our genocide is better than their genocide"
The underlying message seems to be "the UN and the West condemn Xinjiang as a criminal genocide (no killing and no weapons used) while enthusiastically praise Israel for defending their (made up) God granted promised land".
And the fact that the west is using double standards is, unfortunately, quite true even if this is a horrible piece of propaganda and both actions are equally despicable and deserve condemnation.
(no killing and no weapons used)
You should read this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uyghur_genocide
For example:
standard Uyghur language textbooks used in Xinjiang since the early 2000s were outlawed and their authors and editors sentenced to death or life imprisonment on separatism charges. The textbooks had been created and approved by relevant government officials
Or:
"Internment camps contain designated "interrogation rooms" where Uyghur detainees are subjected to consistent and brutal torture methods, including beatings with metal prods, electric shocks, and whips."
You could also read this:
A reminder:
- incarcerated more than an estimated one million Turkic Muslims without any legal process in internment camps.
- since 2017, some sixteen thousand mosques have been razed or damaged
- hundreds of thousands of children have been forcibly separated from their parents and sent to boarding schools
- arbitrary detention of Uyghurs in state-sponsored internment camps, forced labor, suppression of Uyghur religious practices, political indoctrination, severe ill-treatment, forced sterilization, forced contraception, and forced abortion
- from 2015 to 2018, birth rates in the mostly Uyghur regions of Hotan and Kashgar fell by more than 60%
- the Chinese government breached every article in the Genocide Convention
- credible reports of mass deaths under the mass internment drive, while Uighur leaders were selectively sentenced to death or sentenced to long-term imprisonment.
- reported that the Chinese government gave explicit orders to "eradicate tumours", "wipe them out completely", "destroy them root and branch", "round up everyone", and "show absolutely no mercy", in regards to Uyghurs
- camp guards reportedly follow orders to uphold the system in place until "Kazakhs, Uyghurs, and other Muslim nationalities, would disappear...until all Muslim nationalities would be extinct"
- "Internment camps contain designated "interrogation rooms" where Uyghur detainees are subjected to consistent and brutal torture methods, including beatings with metal prods, electric shocks, and whips."
- evidence of atrocities in Xinjiang "likely meets the requirements of the following crimes against humanity: persecution, imprisonment, enforced disappearance, torture, forced sterilisation, and enslavement" and that "It is arguable that genocidal acts have occurred in Xinjiang, in particular acts of imposing measures to prevent births and forcible transfers."
- some academics and researchers have also termed the abuses as part of an ongoing project of Han settler colonialism
- rape and torture were commonplace and that authorities forced detainees to take a medicine that left some individuals sterile or cognitively impaired.
- standard Uyghur language textbooks used in Xinjiang since the early 2000s were outlawed and their authors and editors sentenced to death or life imprisonment on separatism charges. The textbooks had been created and approved by relevant government officials
Permanently Deleted
According to Lemmy's developers, there is no genocide of Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang and you'll be banned from lemmy.ml if you mention it
It's politically inconvenient.
To be fair, they're hardly alone in that. The Muslim world is also happy to look the other way, because China is seen as a potential ally, as mentioned in this article.
But to paraphrase Norm McDonald, I don't think the worst part is the hypocrisy. I think it's the genocide.
because China is seen as a potential ally
Ouch, everyone immediately outside of East Asia is going to get a rough history lesson about Han Chauvinism. People in the west have a radically different view about race than the rest of the world. One that's mainly built upon the social construct of racial hierarchy, a concept that didn't really exist in the east.
Eastern "racism" has more to do with historical ethnic conflict that stretches back thousands of years. The Chinese government has been attempting to implement han chauvinism under the guise of western nationalism. Creating the class of zhonghua minzu or non Han Chinese, enabling them to assimilate and depopulate ethnic minorities in a way that is palatable to the west.
Even if there was no evidence of reeducation camps or destruction of cultural land marks, just the evidence the CCP has published allows us to see behind the veil of Han Chauvinism.
Based on their own census data we can see that ethnic minorities are being driven from their historic capitals to the rural areas surrounding them. That their birth rates have fallen by a third, despite the massive amounts of resources being directed to the area. That ethnic han migration is being subsidized, pushing minorities out of their homes and into the rural countryside.
Most damning of all, even though the Han claim that "autonomous" regions are governed by ethnic minorities of the region, they have to report to a Han secretary. The Han will placate the global stage with these claims of autonomy, but if you look at the politburo where the real power of the government rests. We can see that no ethnic minority has ever been allowed into an actual seat of power within the Chinese government.
I feel like a lot of my western leftist counterparts are so used to fighting the western ideology of racial supremacy, that they forget that it's a relatively modern concept. They don't see that just because ethnic conflict is happening within the same "race", doesn't mean it isn't driven by the same imperialism as western race relations.
Wayyyyy too many people are obsessed with uncovering hypocrisy, as if the world doesn't run on hypocrisy like America runs on Dunkin.
Xinjiang? China's experiment with state-sanctioned "reeducation" camps? that Xinjiang?
not sure how that's similar at all, but please, do go on.
The article states that an image was uploaded to X which seemed to imply that US foreign policy resulted in what is currently happening in Gaza, whereas Chinese policy leads to the current prosperity in Xinjiang. Which is quite a frightening comparison.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
There's no tiny street in East Turkistan (Xinjiang's name before the 1949 Chinese invasion) where you can even speak or throw a rock," said Rahima Mahmut, the U.K. director for the World Uyghur Congress, told Newsweek.
"China has destroyed the very essence of Uyghurs' lives and identity, not just their homes," Salih Hudayar, prime minister of the East Turkestan Government in Exile, told Newsweek.
"The top priority is to bring about a cease-fire and end the war as soon as possible to avoid the conflict from expanding or even getting out of control and causing a serious humanitarian crisis," said Chinese leader Xi Jinping during a meeting with Egyptian Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly.
However, the current conflict has provided Beijing with a strategic opportunity to seek the support of Arab states while attempting to sideline the issue of Uyghur mass detentions in Xinjiang.
The Chinese embassy in Paris posted a cartoon showing Uncle Sam holding up a sign with the message "I Veto" while a group gathered at the United Nations looks at fire raging in Gaza.
"Every country has the right to self-defense but should abide by international humanitarian law and protect civilians," Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi told Israeli counterpart Eli Cohen in a telephone call Monday.
The original article contains 984 words, the summary contains 209 words. Saved 79%. I'm a bot and I'm open source!