A Million People Are Jailed at China's Gulags. Here's What Goes on Inside

Re:A Million People Are Jailed at China's Gulags. Here's Wha... by zachguo on Friday October 18, 2019 @03:01PM (#21294152)

This has actually gained mass coverage recently given the current geopolitical atmosphere. However, I would take this with a grain of salt. If you do a bit of research, you will find the claim was made by people related to the East Turkestan Islamic Movement[1](a terrorist organization linked to Al-Qaeda) and the World Uyghur Congress.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkistan_Islamic_Party [2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Uyghur_Congress

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Re:A Million People Are Jailed at China's Gulags. Here's Wha... by ebg13 on Friday October 18, 2019 @03:14PM (#21294246)

> the World Uyghur Congress

How suspicious that a person talking about mass abuse is part of the group being abused. /s

The WUC is not recognized as a terrorist organization by anyone except China. China labels anyone who disagrees with them as terrorists, particularly religious groups (hello Falun Gong https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Falun_Gong).

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Re:A Million People Are Jailed at China's Gulags. Here's Wha... by zachguo on Friday October 18, 2019 @04:02PM (#21294627)

I didn't claim WUC is a terrorist org, but it has a clear separatism agenda, which aligns with ETIM's goal even if there's no verifiable link between them. Personally I'm skeptical, considering how rampant misinformation is nowadays.

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Re:A Million People Are Jailed at China's Gulags. Here's Wha... by RugnirViking on Friday October 18, 2019 @05:10PM (#21295114)

I'd want to separate from a state responsible for supressing and punishing the use of my language in all official media and schools too.

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Re:A Million People Are Jailed at China's Gulags. Here's Wha... by victoro0 on Friday October 18, 2019 @04:57PM (#21295018)

And is there anything at all wrong with separatism?

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