"Genocide is not taking place in #Xinjiang. More accurately, there is what can be called 'cultural genocide.' The Chinese has a major problem in their hands in Xinjiang. Separatism has become a serious problem for #China in Xinjiang and in some cases, the separatists in ...
... #Xinjiang resort to terrorist attack." Astonishing remark from the former U.S. ambassador to #China, Stapleton Roy. He was directly reiterating the narrative from #Beijing and described the situation in #Xinjiang as "a serious problem of separatism."
Roy went on to characterize the re-education camps as "a mass education that #China is trying to use to convince #Uyghurs that they are happy citizens of China." Unbelievable.
"Not all of them, but there have been terrorist attacks in Xinjiang and other parts of China that are traced back to #Uyghur terrorist groups. China has a real problem on its hand and it doesn’t know how to deal with it."
"What it is trying to do is to use mass-education as a means of convincing the #Uyghurs that they should be happy citizens of China.” @UyghurCongress @UyghurProject @hrw_chinese @amnestychinese
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