I don’t know why people think there is some grand psy-op CIA conspiracy to lie about what is happening to Uyghurs. You can (right now!) personally cross-check publicly accessible Chinese government documents from Baidu about “Xinjiang re-education camps” against Google Earth 1/9
It’s good to be naturally sceptical of what any government tells you, so you don’t actually have to buy what the U.S. government and its allies tell you about what China is doing to Uyghurs. There is such an abundance of evidence, you can research this all entirely yourself! 2/9
Use Baidu. Local government sites detail construction bids and tender notices for companies to build “vocational” facilities. Xinjiang bids specify that compounds must include high walls, watchtowers, barbed wire, surveillance and facilities for armed police forces 3/9
All the location data provided in these publicly accessible construction bids and tender notices can be plugged into Google Earth to find satellite imagery of these camps within minutes 4/9
The vast majority of what we know about these atrocities comes directly from the Chinese government itself, provided on their own websites! There is a huge paper trail that any Mandarin speaker can personally investigate if they so choose 5/9
And if this isn’t enough, just talk to Uyghurs themselves! Listen to their lived experiences. Personally, I’ve got Uyghur friends in five Australian cities, I’ve met and befriended Uyghurs from Canada, Turkey, Germany, the U.S. Every single last one has a story 6/9
I’ve seen screenshots of midnight video calls with Chinese police back home, using family members as pawns to obtain information about their lives overseas. Demands for photos of passports, car registration details, photos of homes, details about where children go to school 7/9
I’ve looked into the eyes of friends who fear that their parents could be taken at any moment, I’ve looked into the eyes of friends who don’t know what happened to brothers, cousins, uncles, grandfathers. Talk to Uyghurs directly, human to human 8/9
Yes, we’ve all read Manufacturing Consent, yes I know it feels cool to LARP as Neo in the Matrix, but the key point is you don’t actually have to see a psy-op behind everything, you can personally do the research to verify what is happening here. 9/9
