As the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests slash massacre and the crackdown on the 2019–2020 Hong Kong protests already demonstrated, all it takes to snuff-out rebellious activism is a government that's willing to commit totally to brutality, killing, and indoctrination -- in conjunction with a population that is unarmed and long conditioned to being servile. (See "inspirational" video at bottom.)
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The truth about China's Uyghur camps Beijing is trying to hide: Hacked data reveals thousands of prisoners forced to undergo 're-education'… with a shoot-to-kill policy for anyone who tries to flee
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...-data.html
INTRO: Thousands of photographs, spreadsheets and classified documents hacked from Chinese police servers have shed a horrifying new light on the terrors Uyghur Muslims have been subjected to in 're-education camps' and prisons in Xinjiang, as part of a state-sponsored campaign aimed at 'breaking' their cultural identity.
The treasure trove of data lays bare how more than 20,000 Uyghurs from just one county - Shufu - were imprisoned or interred in camps between 2017 and 2018 on spurious charges such as growing a beard or failing to top their phone up with credit, under the watchful eye of guards who were ordered to shoot escapees on sight.
Photographs show weeping detainees watched closely by officers clutching night-sticks, camp indoctrination sessions, and police armed with rifles, riot shields and clubs training how to subdue inmates who are shackled with hoods over their heads. Papers discuss the positioning of sniper and machine gun nests in the camps.
Combined with classified speeches in which top Communist Party officials say up to two million Uyghur are infected with 'extremist thought' and praise Xi Jinping for re-educating them, it blows apart the government's official line that such camps are actually 'schools' that people are attending voluntarily.
Taken as a whole, the leak represents perhaps the largest and single-most revealing glimpse into a system of repression that the Chinese government tried to hide from the world, then lied about when challenged. It will also pile pressure on the UN over a fact-finding mission to Xinjiang that begins today, amid fears of state whitewashing.
Given the opportunity to denounce the leak as fake, the Chinese government did not - instead insisting the camps are 'countering violent terrorism, radicalisation and separatism, [and are] not about human rights or religion.'
Authorities in Xinjiang have taken 'a host of decisive, robust and effective deradicalisation measures,' China's US embassy said, and 'the region now enjoys social stability and harmony as well as economic development.' (MORE - details)
Kenton's monologue in episode 5 of "Devs" ... https://youtu.be/QqjA9iTd2i0
https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/QqjA9iTd2i0
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The truth about China's Uyghur camps Beijing is trying to hide: Hacked data reveals thousands of prisoners forced to undergo 're-education'… with a shoot-to-kill policy for anyone who tries to flee
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...-data.html
INTRO: Thousands of photographs, spreadsheets and classified documents hacked from Chinese police servers have shed a horrifying new light on the terrors Uyghur Muslims have been subjected to in 're-education camps' and prisons in Xinjiang, as part of a state-sponsored campaign aimed at 'breaking' their cultural identity.
The treasure trove of data lays bare how more than 20,000 Uyghurs from just one county - Shufu - were imprisoned or interred in camps between 2017 and 2018 on spurious charges such as growing a beard or failing to top their phone up with credit, under the watchful eye of guards who were ordered to shoot escapees on sight.
Photographs show weeping detainees watched closely by officers clutching night-sticks, camp indoctrination sessions, and police armed with rifles, riot shields and clubs training how to subdue inmates who are shackled with hoods over their heads. Papers discuss the positioning of sniper and machine gun nests in the camps.
Combined with classified speeches in which top Communist Party officials say up to two million Uyghur are infected with 'extremist thought' and praise Xi Jinping for re-educating them, it blows apart the government's official line that such camps are actually 'schools' that people are attending voluntarily.
Taken as a whole, the leak represents perhaps the largest and single-most revealing glimpse into a system of repression that the Chinese government tried to hide from the world, then lied about when challenged. It will also pile pressure on the UN over a fact-finding mission to Xinjiang that begins today, amid fears of state whitewashing.
Given the opportunity to denounce the leak as fake, the Chinese government did not - instead insisting the camps are 'countering violent terrorism, radicalisation and separatism, [and are] not about human rights or religion.'
Authorities in Xinjiang have taken 'a host of decisive, robust and effective deradicalisation measures,' China's US embassy said, and 'the region now enjoys social stability and harmony as well as economic development.' (MORE - details)
Kenton's monologue in episode 5 of "Devs" ... https://youtu.be/QqjA9iTd2i0