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15 Oct, 4 tweets, 2 min read
NEW: Torment of the Uyghurs - Cover of the new Economist Magazine.

Based on new data provided by me to the Economist, showing that children of "double-detained" parents are put in orphanages or boarding schools. Xinjiang added 380,000 new boarding students btw 2017 and 2019.
Related article: economist.com/china/2020/10/…
"The persecution of the Uyghurs is a crime against humanity" (related opinion piece)
economist.com/leaders/2020/1…
My research report, analyzing the policies and the new data sets:
adrianzenz.medium.com/story-45d07b25…

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15 Oct
NEW: Parent-Child Separation research report analyzes
new local government data from Yarkand (Kashgar), showing one county alone w/ over 10,000 Uyghur children in “hardship” due to one or both parents detained. 1,000 w/ both parents detained.
link.medium.com/1bEEHSEwBab
The number of students in Xinjiang who live in boarding facilities grew by over 380,000 between 2017 and 2019, from about 500,000 to just below 900,000. An increase of nearly 80%, or 383,000, in the space of 2 years. Notably, right during the internment campaign.
Yarkand No.3 primary school is on a compound together with an orphanage building. A teacher writes that “[the orphanage] children also come to our school during the day and go back to the orphanage at night. The principal has to worry about their food and accommodation.”
Read 6 tweets
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15 Oct
THREAD: western university gets award for its collaboration w/ a Xinjiang paramilitary university who is directly implicated in re-education & forced labor, whose work teams reported on "problems" in Uyghur homes & paraded camp detainees to warn others. link.medium.com/wKCb0sROAab
New Zealand's @MasseyUni Professor Hugh Blair visits Xinjiang annually. In 2019, during the height of the internment drive, he received a Friendship Award from Shihezi University, the most eminent academic institutions of the paramilitary XPCC (blacklisted for HR violations).
Massey University defended its collaboration with Shihezi, saying that it is just about animal science. That's like Disney saying that it is customary to thank Xinjiang's Turpan propaganda office for letting them film in the shadow of concentration camps.
stuff.co.nz/national/30010…
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7 Oct
This is my detailed response to Beijing's allegations that I miscalculated or misrepresented population statistics in my "Demographic Genocide" report. I specifically rebut a report written by Lin Fangfei, Associate Professor at Xinjiang University. link.medium.com/9NU4hxpsnab
Lin's critique of my work was quickly taken up by Chinese state media.

After careful review, I argue that Lin's report is a piece of state propaganda under the guise of academic rigor. Her seemingly detailed and scientific critique doesn't contain any actual substance.
You would imagine that Lin is a senior academic, experienced in relevant fields, chosen by Beijing to attack my data work and calculations. No. She is junior & submitted her PhD in a different field in 2018. She doesn't have a single academic publication.
archive.is/sAZOG
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24 Sep
THREAD: In this NYT op-ed, I place the new discoveries about coercive labor training & transfer in Tibet in the wider context of Beijing's evolving ethnic minority policy.
My core argument is that this policy in essence harks back to the theories of...
nytimes.com/2020/09/24/opi…
...China's eminent anthropologist Fei Xiaotong and his concepts of the "Chinese Nation-Race" (中华民族) and the "pluralist unity" (多元一体), claiming that minorities such as Tibetans/Uyghurs are gradually melding into a Han Chinese "core" as a historical process.
Beijing, which needed a new minority policy approach after Deng Xiaoping's laissez-faire, adopted Fei's concepts under Jiang Zemin, who drew on them e.g. in a 1998 speech in Xinjiang: China had "too many languages", and the gradual reduction of languages is a universal trend.
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22 Sep
BREAKING: ***TIBET*** gets Xinjiang's militarized vocational training and coercive labor transfer scheme. State trained 1/2 million Tibetans by mid-2020 & set up a scheme to make them transfer their herds & land to state-controlled collectives. My report:
jamestown.org/program/jamest…
In 2019, Tibet (TAR) mandated "military-style" vocational training that includes "thought education", discipline, law & Chinese language, reforming Tibetans' "backward thoughts" & "weakening influence of religion". All in the name of poverty alleviation. Reminds us of...XINJIANG.
The similarities to Xinjiang are many, and since 2020, the scheme mandates quotas for the transfer of trained Tibetan "rural surplus laborers" to other provinces. In groups. Again, terminology & structure just like XINJIANG. By end of 2020, export scheme must cover entire TAR.
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20 Sep
Beijing now pays for Google Ads to display a link with a hit piece against me when you Google my name...! If you don't think that's OK, you can report it at this link:
support.google.com/google-ads/con… Image
To see the ad, you apparently need to search for results from the last week or 24hrs (via "search tools", see screenshot), scroll down until you see the ad, and copy the link to the ad on the complaint form. Image
You could say this is Fake News or similar, and could paste a website link that describes my real identity, such as e.g. victimsofcommunism.org/leader/adrian-…
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