Thread by @ErkinSidick

Video: CCP authorities are demolishing an Uyghur mosque in East Turkestan. By a process of assimilation, CCP has caused & is continuously causing Uyghur race with 18+ million people to cease to exist as distinct legal, social, cultural, religious, and racial entities, as this:

Rian Thum, the well-known scholar of Uyghur history, just published dreadful satellite imagery showing that a major sacred site in the famous Uyghur city of Khotan has been bulldozed — and turned into a parking lot. See his informative Twitter thread:

https://twitter.com/RianThum/status/1255145291361120257

3/ In addition, the Australia-based forensic analyst Nathan Ruser (who previously analyzed satellite imagery from Xinjiang, including the notorious leaked video of a concentration camp detainee mass transport in Xinjiang), adds new photos and discussion:

https://twitter.com/Nrg8000/status/1255183086058233857

4/ Meanwhile, another sacred site, the gravesite of the modern Uyghur national literary hero Lutpulla Mutellip, was turned into a grossly kitschy park:

https://twitter.com/RianThum/status/1181959789800251395

5/ There is clearly currently an organized multi-year campaign to destroy Xinjiang's indigenous cultural heritage: razing mosques, neighborhoods, sacred pilgrimage sites, even the mandated destruction of ethnic home interior design, and more,

6/ as seen in these before-and-after analyses and reports:

dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7…

theguardian.com/world/2019/may…

uhrp.org/press-release/…

uhrp.org/press-release/…

7/ This ghastly campaign of destruction, which prompts comparisons between China's government and ISIS or the Taliban or the Nazis, is clearly part of the broader Chinese government assault on the indigenous peoples of Xinjiang (East Turkestan), ongoing since 2017,

8/ a campaign which aims to destroy their identity and autonomy, by way of harsh discrimination and persecution, concentration camps for identity-conversion, family separations, -- and now, population transfers:

scmp.com/news/

9/ I thank Tove Skutnabb-Kangas (tove-skutnabb-kangas.org) for the info in Parts 2 - 8 of this threat. I also thank Magnus Fiskesjö who prepared the original content that I posted here.
#SaveUyghurs from #CCP