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10 Jan, 4 tweets, 2 min read
This whole 'investigation' is hilarious. While they're talking, a satellite image showing ~1,500 detainees being forcibly transfered literally over their shoulder.
They also say that the BBC is wrong because that re-education camp has closed. Hence the transfer we see.
Here's a free tip to whichever propaganist intern is told to make the next debunking video:
Saying 'this particular concentration camp has closed therefore all the reports of concentration camps (that we just confirmed) are wrong' isn't the own that you think it is.
Their last effort to debunk showed drone video filmed 8km away from a prison as a way to disprove it. So at least this time they've put in more effort, even if it is equally unconvincing.
cc @TheJohnSudworth @ProducerKathy, if you haven't seen this.

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Reporters from the BBC visited a detention facility in Xinjiang's Kuqa that opened in mid-2017. In May 2019, a 35,000m2 factory opened directly adjacent to the camp. Less than a week after it was completed, satellite imagery caught ~1,500 people being moved to the factory.
The line stretches 200m between the camp and the factory, called Kuqa Pomegranite Seed Industry Co (库车石榴籽实业有限公司), and with a rough density analysis you can estimate the crowd at around 1,500 individuals. Moving DIRECTLY from a camp to a factory.
During the week between when the factory was completed and when a mass transfer of detainees was captured by satellite imagery the detention facility itself was significantly desecuritised. Watchtowers were removed, internal fencing was lowered and concrete walls were removed.
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It's interesting that 🙈-turned-propagandist Jerry here brings up Tongxin, Ningxia (by showing two sites more than 4km apart, both have been significantly damaged). In this thread I'll show through 16 different mosques in XJ how they've been systematically decimated.
First, I want to highlight one particularly nasty bit of disinformation in Jerry's original tweet. In the first picture (which he says is taken in 2019), he has blocked where the mosque's domes originally were with foliage. In reality they were demolished and removed in Oct 2019.
The minarets were removed between June and October 2020. Beyond the domes and the minarets, all the arabic script that was previously on the mosque in 2014 has been removed and replaced with Chinese writing.
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We have shown, thrown exhausting satellite evidence, that roughly 66% of mosques in Xinjiang have been destroyed or damaged, mostly since 2017. Visitors to Xinjiang since then have estimated to me that about 75% of the ones that do remain are closed.
Some of the photos I've seen showing the inside of closed mosques show an unbelievable amount of decrepitation. Sacred would be the last word to describe how they're treated with what Chinese authorities have done to these mosques
The entire city of Hotan, according to recent visitors, has two mosques that remain operational to any degree. That's a city of over 300,000 people. Fewer mosques than the city of Canberra, with a similar population but only 0.6% Muslim vs >95% of Hotan being Islamic.
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