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Actually it's China that appears to be borrowing from the US propaganda playbook by using the war on terror as a pretext for incarcerating up to 30% of an ethni

Actually it's China that appears to be borrowing from the US propaganda playbook by using the war on terror as a pretext for incarcerating up to 30% of an ethnic and religious minority. Even Human Rights Watch has reported on them. https://www.hrw.org/report/2018/09/09/eradicating-ideological-viruses/chinas-campaign-repression-against-xinjiangs https://www.hrw.org/report/2018/09/09/eradicating-ideologica...

acqq 7y ago
Thanks for that link, I see no use of "concentration" camps term there. Where do you get that 30 percent though? That would be at least more than 3 million people! The biggest claim I know of is, as an example, 1700 out of some specific town of 32,000 inhabitants, and that could be realistic if the said town was indeed the center of the extremist activity, including some kind of preparing a paramilitary organization: https://www.rfa.org/english/news/uyghur/target-06292018132506.html https://www.rfa.org/english/news/uyghur/target-0629201813250... Note how that specific claim (of around 5% of that 32000 people town) is first blown up to be "10%" and then put in the title as "One in 10 Uyghur Residents of Xinjiang Township Jailed or Detained in ‘Re-Education Camp’" to bind the title not to the specific town but to the whole province with 11 million residents. Which is again less surprising knowing that it's RFA who publishes it that way: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Free_Asia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Free_Asia Paid by U.S. taxpayers, initially directly organized by the CIA. Now it is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Asia_Foundation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Asia_Foundation "the US government described the Asia Foundation as a "quasi-nongovernmental organizations" and said that "the core of its budget" was still provided by the US government." And even that RFA didn't use the "concentration" word.
- namirez 7y ago
  I'm not claiming that I know the exact numbers; I don't. But this was reported by the same news outlet: https://www.rfa.org/english/news/uyghur/millions-08032018142025.html https://www.rfa.org/english/news/uyghur/millions-08032018142...

acqq 7y ago

Thanks for that link, I see no use of "concentration" camps term there. Where do you get that 30 percent though? That would be at least more than 3 million people! The biggest claim I know of is, as an example, 1700 out of some specific town of 32,000 inhabitants, and that could be realistic if the said town was indeed the center of the extremist activity, including some kind of preparing a paramilitary organization: https://www.rfa.org/english/news/uyghur/target-06292018132506.html https://www.rfa.org/english/news/uyghur/target-0629201813250... Note how that specific claim (of around 5% of that 32000 people town) is first blown up to be "10%" and then put in the title as "One in 10 Uyghur Residents of Xinjiang Township Jailed or Detained in ‘Re-Education Camp’" to bind the title not to the specific town but to the whole province with 11 million residents. Which is again less surprising knowing that it's RFA who publishes it that way: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Free_Asia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Free_Asia Paid by U.S. taxpayers, initially directly organized by the CIA. Now it is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Asia_Foundation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Asia_Foundation "the US government described the Asia Foundation as a "quasi-nongovernmental organizations" and said that "the core of its budget" was still provided by the US government." And even that RFA didn't use the "concentration" word.

namirez 7y ago
I'm not claiming that I know the exact numbers; I don't. But this was reported by the same news outlet: https://www.rfa.org/english/news/uyghur/millions-08032018142025.html https://www.rfa.org/english/news/uyghur/millions-08032018142...