I'm going to assume best intentions despite your snark. This is certainly not one person making up stuff. Sterilisation is not in any world acceptable to be forced on people. Nor is rape. Here's one decent and disturbing article https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-55794071
Even your implication that I have ulterior motives shows the sad state of public debate on such topics. I am also curious as to what you perceived as "snark"?
I have now fully read the article. Two Chinese US citizens claim they have escaped China where they were tortured for having too many babies. An alleged ex-guard corroborates their story, but cannot prove he was ever actually a guard. This case does seem like completely devoid of any proof. Are you seriously claiming this is sufficient evidence for genocide? But before anyone bites my head off for asking questions, please define genocide for me as you understand the word. It's extremely unclear what people are talking about in this case, as it continues to seem that no one claims any deaths.
The Uighur genocide and other hugely determinant ambiguous events are endemic to modern life. It almost seems like a feature than a bug.
There are so many iterations of this same phenomena- some hugely impactful moral question is poised, but the basic facts are never clearly established, just the allegations. Was Epstein controlling global elites with sex trafficking? Did the CIA kill JFK? Are aliens real and on Earth? Are there DNA targeted bioweapons in Ukraine? Is China genociding the Uighur? All of these questions are of huge moral import, but seemingly unanswerable. Rather, the fact that officials could answer them definitively, but do not, makes it appear as if the answer is 'yes'. However, I think the point of the questions themselves isn't to establish truth. Instead, the implications of the questions themselves further control, whatever the answer is. Either the CIA really did kill JFK, or they want the question to remain open, to increase the perception of their power. Either way, they don't want the question answered, they want it open.
Your question about the status of the Uighurs is rational and earnest, but the question itself might be purely instrumental for governmental control. That's why there's always commenters that will abuse the request for proof. The reality isn't the point, the point is to angry at China.
>The reality isn't the point, the point is to angry at China.
Only because the mass media have used anti-China sentiments to generate clicks and fear and politicians have fed on that to acquire votes.
The fact that we can't have a honest, fact based discussion about China, even on HN, is sad. Let's just be angry at China because "China" is literally what you're suggesting.
Let's not ignore the fact that Muslim Uyghur were/are causing terrorist acts on innocent people. This never gets brought up for some reason.
China has to deal with domestic Islamic extremists. It deals with it by mass re-education camps. This idea isn't unpopular in the West and if Western governments could muster up the will power, they'd do it too. At least it's far better than going to war, like what the US has mostly done against Islamic extremists. The west labels these camps as genocide to paint it as "China bad".
Nothing is ever black and white.
PS. Don't use personal attacks. You don't know me. I don't know you.
I wasn't trying to attack you, I was merely curious whether you specifically picked the username to clearly signal your stance or whether it was a coincidence.
>fact that Muslim Uyghur were/are causing terrorist acts on innocent people.
Bring the facts, don’t claim something is a fact without backing that up.
Also, according to leaked documents, the whole community, incl kids women and innocents, were subject to these actions, assuming there were some “terrorist acts” -still need your citation, preferably not from CCP backed media-, you go only after who committed these acts, legally persecuted through a fair court, but documents showed otherwise [1] and you can read summary of these here [2], according to these leaks, you are religious extremist if you are “Telling others not to swear”, “Not allowing officials to sleep in your bed, eat your food and live in your house”, “Not letting officials scan your irises” ,”Wailing, publicly grieving or otherwise acting sad when your parents die” and worse of all “Being related to anyone who has done any of the above”, that among other atrocities were committed like rape or harvesting the organs (see articles in my previous reply). When the government say “extremists” you need to look carefully what were these actions, grieving on family definitely isn’t one, but those are all usually the stages of genocides [3] and it seems it’s already on the 10th stage. These all go under the assumption there were no false flags [4] to start with, a way to justify the genocides later.
Bringing other countries atrocities as an excuse is even worse, and I don’t think I need to explain why.
Judging from the current international situation, articles related to China will bring a certain amount of traffic and click-through rates, and most of them are negative, making it difficult to tell the truth from the fake. I am already a little tired of such articles.
Most people by now watched a thousand online lynchings of people who pointed out the propaganda. They're either afraid or they themselves enjoy a good lynching. There is also very little risk of it backfiring as censorship takes care of any successful counter arguments.
It's easier to understand through the lens of history, specifically pre-ww2 Germany. The first Germans to turn NAZI were the stereotypical ones : fat, lazy, single, unemployed. Giving these people "ein Feindsbild" and a reason to be proud, without having to move a finger, resonated with these groups.
How did they get the rest of the population in line you ask? There's an old German joke from that time: "Four Germans and a nazi walk into a bar. Five nazis are now drinking beer together happily."
So to answer your question: No, they're not aware, even though it's this obvious. Reaching these people would mean them having to first admit they were wrong. And that's been pretty much out of style lately.
Not at all, Im not advocating for anything. In the same way the GP was as attacked for even asking about the validity of the Uighur genocide claim, you're now misrepresenting my statement. Why? Because the facts aren't the point, division and outrage are the point. You're demonstrating my point, not addressing it.
I have now fully read the article. Two Chinese US citizens claim they have escaped China where they were tortured for having too many babies. An alleged ex-guard corroborates their story, but cannot prove he was ever actually a guard. This case does seem like completely devoid of any proof. Are you seriously claiming this is sufficient evidence for genocide? But before anyone bites my head off for asking questions, please define genocide for me as you understand the word. It's extremely unclear what people are talking about in this case, as it continues to seem that no one claims any deaths.