• iie@lemmy.ml
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    2 years ago

    what they hate is there being cultural aspects not under their control

    china claims they were interning uighurs to prevent extremist terrorism and separatism, not control culture. xinjiang shares a border with afghanistan. the claim is that uighurs were going off to fight in syria and other regions, then coming back to start shit at home. china claims the mass detainment of uighurs was to provide language and vocational training to counter the sway of jihadists returning from the middle east.

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      2 years ago

      One would expect people to volunteer for both of those things if they’re actually what China claims them to be.

      In reality the parents are sent to forced labour camps while the kids are sent to boarding schools to be de-Uighurised.