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The drone footage is of actual prisoner transfer from Kashgar Remand Prison extrapolated from shaved head and text on garbs. These are videos of actual transfer
by dirtyid 6y ago
The drone footage is of actual prisoner transfer from Kashgar Remand Prison extrapolated from shaved head and text on garbs. These are videos of actual transfer process in the reeducation and work programs. No shaved heads, basically bus tours, with no where near prison transfer level of coercion. They're boring, so you get propaganda trying to spin the former into the latter.
https://www.codastory.com/authoritarian-tech/china-uyghur-migration/ https://www.codastory.com/authoritarian-tech/china-uyghur-mi...
The buzzfeed study is one of the first decently comprehensive analysis. It doesn't go the actual step to break down each site in detail (i.e. calculate capacity by square footage) which would be actually useful. It does however identify ~300 camps total in the region. The 1-2 million estimate by Zenz that western media regularly repeats is based off his unsubstantiated estimate of 1,200 camps (ASPI). Yet, we're not seeing the corresponding downward revision in numbers.
https://www.aspi.org.au/report/mapping-xinjiangs-re-education-camps https://www.aspi.org.au/report/mapping-xinjiangs-re-educatio...
So far, the entire situation can be summed up as willful ignorance to facts because propaganda > truth for geopolitics. State level institutions in the west have the resources to extrapolate the scale of the XJ programs accurately, but the reality is an underwhelmingly boring dystopia (and it is extremely dystopian) as revealed by leaked CCP documents itself. So the narrative is built on a mix of cherry picked facts and fake news. For instance the codastory on XJ work programs cited the minimum compensation for those in the program is 13RMB per hour as a negative, but that's basic entry level manufacturing wage in China and 2x higher than average income of Hotan where that batch of workers were from. Yet no one is going around reporting XJ vocational training detainees from poor agriculture towns are being paid double their usual income for manufacturing jobs. Incidentally maybe also why the Buzzfeed study, partially funded by RFA / Open Technology Fund goes so far as to identify the number of camps but don't go the extra step of estimating internment capacity, preferring to again, repeat Zenz estimates based off poor methodology that concluded 4x camps existed, something the buzzfeed study itself invalidates.