China's counter-insurgency against the Uighurs:
1) Declare Islam a mental disease
"they were forced to renounce Islam, criticize their own Islamic beliefs and those of fellow inmates, and recite Communist Party propaganda songs for hours each day."
theatlantic.com/international/…
1) Declare Islam a mental disease
"they were forced to renounce Islam, criticize their own Islamic beliefs and those of fellow inmates, and recite Communist Party propaganda songs for hours each day."
theatlantic.com/international/…
3) Send a million ethnically correct party members to live in their homes (police their behaviors under threat of camps)
Subtext: Mass rape as policy.
"After Yunus’s parents and older brother were detained, only Yunus’s sister-in-law and 5-year-old brother remained in the house. Around the beginning of 2018, a Han Chinese man started staying with them full-time."
apnews.com/article/ap-top…
"After Yunus’s parents and older brother were detained, only Yunus’s sister-in-law and 5-year-old brother remained in the house. Around the beginning of 2018, a Han Chinese man started staying with them full-time."
apnews.com/article/ap-top…
4) An open-air prison, built with modern surveillance technology
"The app.. allows police officers to flag people they believe have stopped using a smartphone, have begun avoiding the use of the front door at home or have refueled someone else’s car."
"The app.. allows police officers to flag people they believe have stopped using a smartphone, have begun avoiding the use of the front door at home or have refueled someone else’s car."
"The police use the app at checkpoints that serve as virtual “fences” across Xinjiang. If someone is tagged as a potential threat, the system can be set to trigger an alarm every time he or she tries to leave the neighborhood or enters a public place."
nytimes.com/2019/05/22/wor…
nytimes.com/2019/05/22/wor…
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