Cal88 said:sycasey said:Cal88 said:sycasey said:
I will also say that I've heard from people who have traveled to that part of China for business reasons, and they say that at one time there were public bazaars with the usual Muslim Uyghur cultural affiliations, and then they came back a few years later and those were all gone and no one could say why.
It would be like someone visiting the South Bay in the 1970s saying that all the orchards are gone so they must have put the farmers in concentration camps.
Well, it's that plus a lot of other reporting and testimony. Hearing from someone who saw some stuff first hand just helped confirm it for me.
Where does your information come from?
I've never been to that part of China, but also know several people who have, as well there are many travelers and influencers online who refute the notion of an ongoing genocide.
If there really was a Uyghur genocide, you would have had millions of Uyghur refugees in American and western European cities. There are for example a lot of Tibetan refugees from the late 20th century in India and Nepal, the repression in Tibet having been quite severe during Mao's reign. I collect Tibetan art, and the local artisanal production in China crashed after the 1950s. It came back decades later, but not nearly to the same historical standards.
By your logic, the Palestinian genocide must not be real either. There are very few Palestinian refugees in the US and few in the EU compared to population size.
Now of course this is because Palestinian refugees regularly end up in other ME countries. Is it not possible that Uyghurs do the same?
