• Tankiedesantski [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    There are some Uyghurs who could flee the country…

    I read one of the US-based Uyghur activists accounts of how she escaped China. Thought it was going to be a harrowing story of people smugglers and fake IDs but it turned out that the genocidal Chinese government just gave her a passport and she bought a plane ticket to the US.

    Every genocide in history has created huge outflows of refugees trying to escape death. Xinjiang has a huge and relatively poorly patrolled border with several Islamic nations who would all be very sympathetic to their brothers and sisters getting murdered. Where are the mass refugee outflows? Nowhere.

    • flan [they/them]@hexbear.net
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      1 year ago

      the genocidal Chinese government just gave her a passport and she bought a plane ticket to the US

      what a bunch of morons, they didn’t know it’s what she actually wanted all along

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        1 year ago

        The funny thing about the Xinjiang genocide is that if you look at the quality of life and treatment of actual Uyghur people, you have to conclude that the genocide is either not happening or that the CPC is comically bad at it.

    • Krem [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      1 year ago

      also there are lots of uyghur people in China outside of Xinjiang, in pretty much every province and city. go to a normal city like Xi’an or Beijing and you’ll see a hundred thousand uyghur people owning businesses and going to work and meeting up with friends and going to the mosque.