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China-Japan-Koreas
Don't forget the Uighur amid the coronavirus crisis
2020-02-17
[Aljazeera] When a people are subjected to the most unimaginable forms of cruelty at the hands of a brutal regime and prominent world powers are unwilling to take any meaningful steps to stop that cruelty, where and what do they then turn to? When a tragedy strikes the government that abused them, could they be excused for believing it to be divine intervention?

The largest mass atrocity occurring in the world today, unfortunately, speaks to this sad reality.

The Uighurs and other mostly-Muslim Turkic minorities in China are being subjected to the most brutal forms of oppression and the Chinese government's so-called "re-education camps" are holding over a million of them out of sight.

To counter any criticism of its treatment of the Uighurs, China has employed a language of "de-radicalisation" that has been normalised throughout the world by repressive governments to mask their own policies of death and destruction.

While other groups that suffer under inhumane policies either at the hands of their own governments or others often find themselves championed by a competing force and score some gains while being used as a political football, the Uighurs do not seem to qualify even for that.

Last month, US President Donald Trump signed a new trade deal with his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, bringing the two-year trade war between the two superpowers to an end and making his administration less willing than usual to even mention the gross human rights violations committed by the Asian giant.
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Posted by:Besoeker

#7  "What uighurs?"
Posted by: swksvolFF   2020-02-17 16:52  

#6  There is a wigger virus now? That does explain Eminem and all those white-boy rappers.
Posted by: SteveS   2020-02-17 11:20  

#5  Just saying, is there another combination of phrases that could be more anti-western: "mostly-Muslim Turkic".

I do have some co-workers from the region that are of Han origin, always quick to remark 'Hell no, I am not a Muslim".

Rights rapidly evaporate for clearly identifiable groups that do wrong. Meet Darwin.
Posted by: Beau   2020-02-17 08:27  

#4  
Mao's recalcitrant giant,
with Fabianists non-compliant.
"They're free to eat bats,
mice, pekingese and... gnats !
But we don't suffer
the disease most defiant."
Posted by: Dron66046   2020-02-17 07:04  

#3  Confucius send little of note,
But from Falun Gong contact, he quote,
"Beijing cabdriver gab:
Drab Manchurian lab
Engineering Mohammedan goat."
Posted by: Chamble the Furry5004   2020-02-17 05:43  

#2  so far, per official counting, only 75 infected and only 1 death in Xinjiang province
Posted by: lord garth   2020-02-17 05:20  

#1  Also, as we worry about the spread of the virus, we should spare a minute to think how this new tragedy may affect the Uighurs themselves. After all, if the coronavirus was to spread through the closed, cramped camps holding scores of Uighurs, we almost certainly would never learn the full extent of their devastation.

Since they could have very likely been a targeted population, that would be my guess as well.
Posted by: Besoeker   2020-02-17 03:22  

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