The persecution of the Uyghurs is a crime against humanity

Re:The persecution of the Uyghurs is a crime against humanity by docdeek on Thursday October 15, 2020 @06:51AM (#24787088)

I’m skeptical that there’ll be any action just as there has been no action after similar stories elsewhere in pretty high-profile media outlets.

The Washington Post ran the op-ed "China’s attacks on Uighur women are crimes against humanity” almost a year ago. [1] Foreign Policy magazine ran the argument "China Must Answer for Cultural Genocide in Court” in December last year. [2] The Atlantic ran a piece headlined "Saving Uighur Culture From Genocide” a week ago, too. [3]

And I think ’see it and nod’ is about right. We can’t say we didn’t know, we just decided there were other things that we prefered to be doing than stop it.

[1]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/10/21/chinas-at... [2]: https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/12/03/uighurs-xinjiang-china-... [3]: https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2020/10/ch...

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Re:The persecution of the Uyghurs is a crime against humanity by colechristensen on Thursday October 15, 2020 @07:04AM (#24787184)

What needs to happen is prominent people the Chinese population pays attention to need to call out and embarrass the state. The NBA taking a stand would have been great.

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