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China’s Uighur Camps Swell as Beijing Widens the Dragnet

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44 pointsdcgudeman12 comments

If China is using for example Apple's data to help incarcerate their citizens, does anyone else think Apple shares responsibilty? Would a Uigur that was detained and tortured have possible legal standing in the US to sue the American corp. that helped enable the surveilance?

Doubtful, as that surveillance was likely authorized by law.

https://www.rfa.org/english/news/uyghur/report-uyghurs-in-ch...

Apple not required (nor would an iPhone be affordable - Sinkiang is one of the poorer regions of China).

> "why do you believe in religion, there is no God"

This is why tolerance is so important. When there is no tolerance, then people will justify anything.

Want to know a really good way to increase the power of a separatist group? Build internment camps. Congratulations, you played yourself.

I feel this is so much worse than the current US government policy is, regarding Muslims. It’s sad that these groups get no support from middle east countries or Pakisthan that should sympathize with their plight.

They're not specifically targeting muslims, at least for now. For example, Hui muslims, another Chinese minority, aren't persecuted. It's more to do with the Uighur ethnicity.

China basically is occupying a foreign country that they annexed 50 years ago and is now subjugating its conquered people to literal fascism. Where is the West's denunciation?

I have a theory that this is a common pattern for the Chinese government, this uighur instance just spilled open.

Tibet had excellent PR and even that didn't help them

This is probably why:

"We have to conquer our own country and purify it of all infidels. Then, we should conquer the infidels' countries and spread Islam. The infidels who are usurping our countries have announced war against Islam and Muslims, forcing Muslims to abandon Islam and change their beliefs."

– Abdullah Mansour, current leader of the Uyghur separatist movement Turkistan Islamic Party (East Turkestan Islamic Movement), from "The Duty of Faith and Support," Voice of Islam/al-Fajr Media Center, August 26, 2009.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism_in_China#Xinjiang

Go ahead, intern away China.

That is one guy. I never met anyone who espouses that on the ground. If anything, that quote is aiming to generate (a previously mentioned) external support from nations that you would think would want to help due to a shared religion.

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