Satellite imagery from October 8 shows a large supply road being built into Nagorno-Karabakh from Azerbijan, presumably to resupply frontline Azeri forces. It connects to a preexisting road that goes to Talish, at about 3km from the nearest previously held Azeri position. Image
This new forwards logistics base has been set up in what used to be No-Man's Land, at 40.419815, 46.774321.
Within Nagorno-Karabakh itself, Azeri forces seem to mostly be utilising previously held Armenian/NK military positions, of which there are no shortage of. Image
South of Talish, the artillery bombardment of Armenian positions is VERY clear. Dozens of shelling craters are evident in just this small area (imagery colour-stretched to make the craters clearer) at 40.349665, 46.759191. None were there in mid-September. Image
Based on occupied positions, I'd guess that on Oct 8th, Azeri forced hadnt pushed far past Talish, frontline positions visible on the satellite imagery are shown here (aqua for Azeri, yellow for NK - couldn't tell you who holds white). This has changed since (geolocated footage). Image

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14 Oct
This is a complex of extrajudicial detention centres/prisons in Xinjiang's Aksu.

It has 35 multistory residential buildings to detain Uyghurs and other 'unloyal' ethnicities for acts of culture and faith.

It covers 126 hectares. 42x the size of Britain's Houses of Parliament. ImageImageImageImage
These walls are 15m tall, with 25m tall watchtowers every 300m around the perimeter of each internment camp. This is in addition to generally 6 layers of tall, barbed wire fencing between each residential building and the outside world. ImageImageImage
Each one has multiple large guardhouse buildings, which is directly connected to the perimeter wall by a bridge. These guardhouses are each 4 storeys tall. This means each camp has 6,400m of floorspace just for guardhouses. An office of that size would likely have >500 employees. ImageImageImageImage
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28 Sep
One facility out of a total of 380 detention camps is a school in Nilqa. Bad-faith actors/trolls have desperately tried to disprove this site. I'm going to tell the story of Dina Nurdybai to highlight the cruelness that denying the trauma of victims has. She was detained here. ImageImage
Dina was a business woman and a business owner, she owned a clothing company in Nilqa, and in 2017 was summoned for 'a chat' with police. This chat ended up with her being detained without rhyme or reason for almost a year.
She was taken directly to this facility, the Wuzan Middle School, where she was ordered to strip, undergo a full cavity search and then crammed into a room with 30 detainees and three beds.
Read 16 tweets
27 Sep
I truely can't believe the most contentious and contested aspect out of the 1000+ datapoints of human rights abuse we managed to map with the Xinjiang Data Project, the one that almost every tankie troll has been latching onto as a gotchya, is a location we never said was a camp.
I guess that speaks to the quality of the data, of 380+ camps, nearly 1,000 cultural sites (about 2/3 of which have been demolished or damaged), the only fault that people are trying to pick, is by 'disproving' a school that we never said was anything but a school.
It's also astounding that this aboslute torrent of abuse (you should see my mentions, every couple of seconds someone with a hammer-and-sickle name calls me a nazi), is stemming from misinformation by a professor at an Australian university. Who was told of his error hours ago
Read 7 tweets
27 Sep
The state of Australian academia...
smdh.
I wonder how @Deakin university feels about one of its professors trying to discredit our research my grossly mischaracterising it and refusing to offer ANY corrections to his mischaracterisation. It doesn't scream academic integrity to me.
The misinformation being spread and doubled down on by a university professor 'teaching' international relations to young minds is causing internet trolls to call me a terrorist.
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27 Sep
This professor is also pointing fault at our recent Xinjiang Data Project, but seems to be completely unable to comprehend that when you detain hundreds of thousands of people over a few months you run out of places to put them. Both these facilities were transformed into camps.
The Veteran's affair bureau used to look like the first picture. Nothing untowards here at all, and we would never claim that this picture showed a camp. In March 2018 authorities erected a tall concrete wall around the entire perimeter, put guard watchtowers on two corners...
... aded a highly securitised, two tiered entranceway (at the only gap in the 5m tall perimeter wall), with an extension of the guard post, and established heavily fenced areas to limit detainee's movements in the camp. You can see very clear fencing here, highlighted.
Read 27 tweets
26 Sep
The last few days have seen a few people try to discredit our report of 380+ detention facilities in Xinjiang by finding one they don't agree with, this THREAD will collect my threads debunking each and every one of these 'debunks'. If you find more thow them my way.
This site was referred to by the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs to call our claims completely false. Of course, they're wrong.
Here's a thread claiming that a camp is actually a school with video footage to prove it, but the video footage isn't shot within 5km of the camp.
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