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So how exactly was she “engaging state security,” by teaching about Uyghur culture?!
China is a tyrannical regime. Logic is not a requirement.
Seems more like a lesson learned from all the people the US placed in Gitmo without even a secret trial. And at least China had the argument that they literally did have many spread out terrorist attacks from more radical believers in the Uyghur communities inside China. I think that both the US and China handled shit bad as fuck. But until the US fully shuts down Gitmo and returns it to Cuba, and ends all of our black sites. Then it isn’t exactly something that the US has any real right to talk any shit about just because it is China. We are beyond the level of tyrannical, we are just better at controlling the narrative and have somehow been allowed to just dictate what other nations are “good” and “evil”.
China is doing more to un-fuck their bad choices, as they have made sure that folks that shouldn’t have been mixed in were able to get jobs and technical/vocational training/school. The US never put any tiny amount of even PR level shit for helping Muslims we grabbed up and tortured while being held without any level of legal protections. There are some folks that might just be kept forever at this point as they are afraid that those people might become actual terrorists after being treated so badly while innocent.
Does that mean China gets a pass? No. But the US has done far more in the past 40 years to create the very extremists and terrorists that we keep seeing pop-up. We have done more to create suffering on a global scale since the end of the British Empire. We just hide it better and our gaslighting is top notch from media to trade. Just because we have “freedom of speech” doesn’t mean we aren’t tyrannical.
The whataboutism is strong with this one
~80 prisoners wrongfully detained in conjuction with a terrorist attack that killed thousands = the ethnic cleansing of an entire people directly by the state and the imprisonment of teachers
The lemmygradians huff the good stuff as usual.
Anyone from hexbear care to add to this?
I heard China poisons our water supply and is responsible for all stillbirths in America. My source is hysteria.
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This is such a misguided take that I find it hard to believe it’s not deliberate. Why do certain Americans always have to make everything about themselves?? Stop distracting from the fact that the Uyghurs are being wiped out. Normal people who are being rounded up, arrested and never seen again. It’s on a par with the what the Third Reich were doing to Jewish people in the 1930s.
The Uyghur’s are not being wiped out. There has never in history been a genocide where the population went up. The Uyghur fertility rate is over 3.0, which is still over replacement rate.
I like China.i wksh america cared about me like china does its people. Xi seems cool
Well, she was missing since 2017. Probably being re-educated to teach Uyghur kids to worship Xinnie the Pooh
This is the best summary I could come up with:
BEIJING (AP) — A prominent Uyghur scholar specializing in the study of her people’s folklore and traditions has been sentenced to life in prison, according to a U.S.-based foundation that works on human rights cases in China.
Rahile Dawut was convicted on charges of endangering state security in December 2018 in a secret trial, the San Francisco-based Dui Hua Foundation said in a statement Thursday.
“The sentencing of Professor Rahile Dawut to life in prison is a cruel tragedy, a great loss for the Uyghur people, and for all who treasure academic freedom,” John Kamm, executive director of the Dui Hua Foundation, said in a statement.
She disappeared in late 2017 amid a brutal government crackdown aimed at the Uyghurs, a Turkic, predominately Muslim ethnicity native to China’s northwest Xinjiang region.
Dawut was internationally renowned for her work studying sacred Islamic sites and Uyghur cultural practices in Xinjiang and across Central Asia, authoring many articles and books and lecturing as a visiting scholar abroad, including at Cambridge and the University of Pennsylvania.
News of her life sentence shocked Freeman and other academics in Uyghur studies, as Dawut didn’t engage in activities opposing the Chinese government.
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Hexbear cheers uncontrollably
I’m not sorry to say this , I don’t trust anything this paper says simply because it is an attempt to beat the cold war drum
The US based foundation the article is citing said they have a source who told them this woman was sentenced to life. Other than that Radio Free Asia claims to have interviewed her coworkers to confirm she was arrested in 2018. That’s the extent of the evidence as no other information was provided. I think it’s reasonable to have doubts.
No it is citing another article which is entirely based on a nebulous trove of leaked documents that has no “person” that is “saying” any of this. No effort to provide these documents for validation at all. Radio Free Asia is an Adrian Zenz rag that has been proven to fabricate evidence, use terrible research methods, and is nothing more than a moutepiece for a racist, antisemitie, Christian Fascist.
Is there any evidence besides this unnamed unicorn source on the arrest and sentence?
No.
There is no actual source for this, the Dui Hua foundation is basing this on a new york times article which has a single source “a trove of 300 leaked documents” however they have no actual person associated with the leak, have not provided the “trove” for authentication, and the documents themselves have been categorically refuted by government officials. This all comes from a long line of source: “I made it up”
Take this with a grain of salt. There’s not any evidence presented here to suggest that these claims are true. The US based foundation the AP is citing references an unnamed source but that’s it.
