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I've been reading this story claiming about 1 million ethnic Uighurs in China are held in secret interment caps. I find it incredible it's not being widely picked by the BBC and other western news agencies......
If true, it's staggering that anything like this can exist especially with the numbers of people involved.
The headline and the article don't quite tell the same story. The headline implies some sort of Holocaust scale camps, the article says its a crackdown on a religious minority "effectively turning the region into an internment camp" which is stretching a bit?
Its shit, but nothing new for China.
I visited Kashgar a couple of years ago and this was before the current crack down. It was pretty clear it was a police state being run there with security cameras at every intersection in the city, police checkpoints in and out of town (where the police had passport scanning tech), heavily armed police/army patrolling the streets and an overwhelming appearance that the Chinese were cracking down on the Uighers. I saw some pretty disrespectful scenes from the Chinese border guards towards an old Uigher guy when a Chinese border guard back handed the old guy's hat off his head and then push him around. The Uigher guy looked to be about 80 and it was super uncool. Privately Uighers would say there were people disappearing to detention camp. It was bloody sad to see and my opinion of the Chinese govt really went down after that.
Sadly the Chinese government do not have a good track record.
While I was traveling in Asia I was surprised by reactions to past mass murders or current persecution. Humans are very flexible when it comes to doing things that they think will help them survive with limited remorse.
For all of our grandiose it would not take much to tip the public in the UK to doing similar things. The power of some cleverly placed adds... Instill remember the banned new labour new danger ads that were banned. They are nothing compared to more recent pushes...
Confucianism, Unfortunately while helping to pull people together under good of the community also has the extreme respect of hierarchy which make questioning up the the chain a big thing in Chinese culture. I think this help to keep the Chinese government. This is then used to help push the one nation Han ideal. Very sad. Pete Jones has had some links on one of his blogs to some horrible photos of government crackdowns in the area.
It's not purely a Chinese problem, it's intrinsic to the systems of govt we have these days - amoral inhumanity.
We have don't have to look as far as China to see other examples.
I can well believe it. Tibet, mongolia. The south china sea islands?
The way they treat their shopstaff etc(always have to bow their heads as they pass their superiors), and refuse to serve westerners in some stores, chinese hotels etc, shows a lot of arrogance.
All those chinese built dams on the mekong, in burma and laos, they never took into account the needs of the locals. just lent billions and took whatever they could
refuse to serve westerners in some stores, chinese hotels etc, shows a lot of arrogance.
I see a parallel with some of the more rabid Twitter/Facebook feeds from the UK/USA