franktaber,
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The scale of the Uyghur genocide is so vast but so difficult to report on that I think many of us have forgotten entirely about it. The last boost was a reminder.

It has been taking place for over a decade with the government of China systematically locking up and torturing and sterilizing and organ harvesting and killing and using as slave labor millions of people. Most of it out of the eye of worldwide media and with little discussion on social media and seldom a protest anywhere.

franktaber,
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The Wikipedia article is staggering and yet it is just a fraction of what has been alleged but difficult to confirm.

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Uyghur_genocide

Most of the data is years old because it is hard for international organizations to report on it.

franktaber,
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Every bit of the scale of it is staggering. One fifth of the world's cotton comes from the region and is cultivated by Uyghur slave labor.

oakster,
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@franktaber Here is an article from this week's Economist about the state of suppression there: What Ramadan is like in Xinjiang https://www.economist.com/china/2024/04/11/what-ramadan-is-like-in-xinjiang

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