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Well if you go by UN (aka diplomatically actionable) definitions, by formally extending family planning uniformly to minorities which previously disproportionat

Well if you go by UN (aka diplomatically actionable) definitions, by formally extending family planning uniformly to minorities which previously disproportionately targeted Han, China did not start genociding Uyghurs but effectively stopped genociding Han. Unless the argument is family planning is genociding everyone, in which case the primary victims are still urban Han. The verbiage trying to define Cultural Genocide makes more sense: (d) Any form of assimilation or integration by other cultures or ways of life imposed on them by legislative, administrative or other measures; "Trying" because there's no official definition of cultural genocide at UN, hence the game by certain interests attempting to fit XJ into literal genocide box. If the matter is intention then no need to conflate sinicization with destroy, if only for the reason reducing 56 official minorities to 55 would ruin Xi's legacy. If PRC actually wanted to destroy / genocide Uyghurs, it could do so much faster and cheaper than spending 5+ years and trillions in resources. Enough time has passed that even warn torn Germany's rudimentary death camp infrastructure applied to XJ would have reached final solution by now. China is capable of doing what Nazi's did over years in weeks, but hasn't for the exceedingly simple reason that the goal is not to genocide.

hkmaxpro 6y ago
Read the whole Genocide Convention of 1948: > genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: > (a) Killing members of the group; > (b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; > (c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; > (d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; > (e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group. Was CCP trying to destroy Han via the One-Child Policy? No. Was CCP trying to destroy Uighurs via (b)(d)(e)? Arguably yes. https://treaties.un.org/doc/publication/unts/volume%2078/volume-78-i-1021-english.pdf https://treaties.un.org/doc/publication/unts/volume%2078/vol...
- dirtyid 6y ago
  (b)(d)(e) applied to and still does to Han as well, there's no distinction in terms of family planning. Hence no intent to destroy. The distinction is the greater XJ security architecture, in which case it's comparable to prison industrial complex that disproportionately target minorities, which again, has been likened to cultural genocide. If the CCP wanted to destroy Uyghurs, they'd destroy them, not setup elaborate sinication program.

hkmaxpro 6y ago

Read the whole Genocide Convention of 1948: > genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: > (a) Killing members of the group; > (b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; > (c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; > (d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; > (e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group. Was CCP trying to destroy Han via the One-Child Policy? No. Was CCP trying to destroy Uighurs via (b)(d)(e)? Arguably yes. https://treaties.un.org/doc/publication/unts/volume%2078/volume-78-i-1021-english.pdf https://treaties.un.org/doc/publication/unts/volume%2078/vol...

dirtyid 6y ago
(b)(d)(e) applied to and still does to Han as well, there's no distinction in terms of family planning. Hence no intent to destroy. The distinction is the greater XJ security architecture, in which case it's comparable to prison industrial complex that disproportionately target minorities, which again, has been likened to cultural genocide. If the CCP wanted to destroy Uyghurs, they'd destroy them, not setup elaborate sinication program.