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China Boosts Tourism to Uyghur Region to Whitewash Genocide (uyghurtimes.com)
submitted 3 days ago by Hotznplotzn@lemmy.sdf.org to c/world@lemmy.world
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/45538670

  • Uyghur region (XUAR) saw 300 million visitors in 2024, more than double 2018 figures.
  • Most tourists are domestic; foreign access is tightly controlled.
  • Human rights groups warn China promotes a sanitized version of Uyghur culture.
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[–] Eldritch@piefed.world 14 points 3 days ago (1 children)

As a First Nations descendant, whose ancestors were death marched across the continental U.S. Only to be forced to scratch out a meager living in the shittiest areas of the shittiest states of the Union. It's still sad, but predictable to watch capitalist bourgeoisie continued to ignore this behavior. And, absolutely ghoulish to watch Leninists outright deny and berate anyone that acknowledges it.

While I am not a Muslim or Tibetan, my heart goes out to both these groups. Suffering under the oppression of han supremacists. Or all those in Hong Kong who've had their voices forcibly silenced. If it was wrong for the West to do it, it is wrong for China to do it as well. It's just so sad to see all the apologists China has right now.

[–] HowRu68@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

If it was wrong for the West to do it, it is wrong for China to do it as well. It's just so sad to see all the apologists China has right

Very well said. People can be shitty and sometimes do very horrible things.

And according to the comments up-and downvotes( 54 to 10) , that's almost 20% are still apologists. Thats 20% too many.

[–] Packet@lemmy.ml -1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

"Uyghur Times, a Washington, DC-based media organization, is dedicated to telling the truth about China and its policies toward the Uyghur people."

Hmmm, I wonder why would they be in Washington DC? Publishing articles headed with AI thumbnails. While also not disclosing their finances.

They also have a great article downplaying the Islamic State and the TIP in Syria. Which has participated in the widespread massacres of Syrian Alawites. (TIP is ETIP but rebranded)

Never mind the article content itself.

[–] Hotznplotzn@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They were trying to move the media office to Beijing but couldn't find an affordable rent afaik.

Please feel free to post some links to media outlets you deem more credible regarding the Chinese government's attempt to boost tourism to the Uyghur region to whitewash genocide.

@Packet@hexbear.net

[–] Packet@lemmy.ml -2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I do not deem Uyghur Genocide as real, that is the first thing. The second would be a pretty great report from OIC which was released in 2019.:

https://www.oic-oci.org/docdown/?docID=4447&refID=1250

"Welcomes the outcomes of the visit conducted by the General Secretariat’s delegation upon invitation from the People’s Republic of China; commends the efforts of the People’s Republic of China in providing care to its Muslim citizens; and looks forward to further cooperation between the OIC and the People’s Republic of China."

What is funnier is the same people who funded the extremists groups such as ETIM to destabilize the region in the 90s, have called the efforts to stop that a genocide. These people being the US government, but in 2021 they decided to roll back on these claims:

The U.S. State Department’s Office of the Legal Advisor concluded earlier this year that China’s mass imprisonment and forced labor of ethnic Uighurs in Xinjiang amounts to crimes against humanity—but there was insufficient evidence to prove genocide, placing the United States’ top diplomatic lawyers at odds with both the Trump and Biden administrations, according to three former and current U.S. officials.

— State Department Lawyers Concluded Insufficient Evidence to Prove Genocide in China. Colum Lynch, Foreign Policy. (2021)

If you wish for further reading, I would love to provide.

[–] Hotznplotzn@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

There is ample evidence for China's genocidal policies and resulting atrocities in Xinjiang, Tibet, Inner Mongolia by a variety of sources.

[–] Packet@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 days ago

I have provided a variety of sources of there not being any, at least for Xinjiang. Which you have ignored? Now in the same notion as you have: There is no ample evidence for China's genocidal policies and resulting atrocities.