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If anything the oppression of the Uyghurs probably peaked around 2008 with multiple riots, terror attacks and counter-terror attacks occuring at that time. Howe
by throwaway4good 5y ago
If anything the oppression of the Uyghurs probably peaked around 2008 with multiple riots, terror attacks and counter-terror attacks occuring at that time. However back then the Chinese effort was alligned with US efforts in Afghanistan and thus did not get much play in western media.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Uyghur_unrest https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Uyghur_unrest
- tehnub 5y agoHere's a quote from the first full paragraph of the article >The boy was only 2 in 2016, when he left Turkey with his mother and grandmother to visit their homeland in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. Mass arrests began while the child was there. More than a million Uyghurs, Kazakhs and other mostly Muslim minorities were forced into indoctrination camps. Looks like things escalated since 2008.
- throwaway4good 5y agoIn terms of attacks it definately peeked around then. Of course the claim is that reason the attacks stopped is that China put all the young Uyghur men in internment camps.