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As I review my notes and catch up on recent developments about this issue I am reminded of how incredibly grim & depressing it is. This is a cold, calculating sort of state terror unleashed over several years.
Some quick background resources for those unfamiliar with the issue: https://twitter.com/AlexDukalskis/status/1285581212803903488
Some quick background resources for those unfamiliar with the issue: https://twitter.com/AlexDukalskis/status/1285581212803903488
On the state-directed nature of the campaign against the Uighur minority group, see the story last year by @austinramzy & @ChuBailiang based on leaked internal documents: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/11/16/world/asia/china-xinjiang-documents.html
For a good academic assessment of the nature of the repression, what can land you in a camp, surveillance, ect., see @j_smithfinley in @CA_Survey
Also see the scholarly work of @robertsreport @dtbyler @jleibold & many others. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02634937.2019.1586348
Also see the scholarly work of @robertsreport @dtbyler @jleibold & many others. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02634937.2019.1586348
For a journalistic account of the re-education camps based on leaked documents (different leaks than the NYT story), see the 2019 @ICIJorg China Cables investigation led by @BethanyAllenEbr, written up in among many places, the @IrishTimes by @cpkeena https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/asia-pacific/china-cables
Chinese authorities say the re-education camps (which they implausibly claimed were voluntary...after they claimed they didn't exist) are closed, but @annafifield reported in the @washingtonpost in FEB about how this has transitioned into coerced labor: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/china-compels-uighurs-to-work-in-shoe-factory-that-supplies-nike/2020/02/28/ebddf5f4-57b2-11ea-8efd-0f904bdd8057_story.html
See also yesterday's @nytimes investigation by @muyixiao @heytherehaIey @ckoettl @NatalieReneau & @DrewJordan_NYT on Uighur coerced labor being used to make face masks for PPE (the same PPE that the Chinese gov touted in its covid "soft power" publicity). https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/19/world/asia/china-mask-forced-labor.html
Yet another dreadful development reported last month in an @AP investigation: sterilizations have increased in Xinjiang even as nationwide they've decreased & births in Uighur areas have decreased disproportionately. This according to the gov's own stats. https://apnews.com/269b3de1af34e17c1941a514f78d764c
The list goes on. The Chinese gov responds w/ obfuscations (those aren't really camps), distractions (your human rights aren't so great; this is about terrorism), character assassinations (you researchers are biased), and implications that this is all about the US-China rivalry.
This is all just to say that when you have the occasion to sit back and look at the situation in its totality, it is dire and heartbreaking.
