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Data leak reveals how China 'brainwashes' Uighurs in prison camps

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Re: Data leak reveals how China 'brainwashes' Uighurs in prison camps

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Post by api »

_Microft wrote: post #5

The documents reveal how every aspect of a detainee's life is monitored and controlled: "The students should have a fixed bed position, fixed queue position, fixed classroom seat, and fixed station during skills work, and it is strictly forbidden for this to be changed. "Implement behavioural norms and discipline requirements for getting up, roll call, washing, going to the toilet, organising and housekeeping, eating…

That kind of harsh routine along with sleep deprivation, repetition, and calorie restriction are bog standard cult mind control techniques, and yes they do work. All appear to be present in these camps.

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Post by abtinf »

_Microft wrote: post #5

The documents reveal how every aspect of a detainee's life is monitored and controlled: "The students should have a fixed bed position, fixed queue position, fixed classroom seat, and fixed station during skills work, and it is strictly forbidden for this to be changed. "Implement behavioural norms and discipline requirements for getting up, roll call, washing, going to the toilet, organising and housekeeping, eating…

This is exactly how American education is structured. What are we doing to our children?

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Post by bluejekyll »

Causality1 wrote: post #3

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I realize this might be wrong and based on not reading enough history about it, but I’ve always understood that the Holocaust was not well documented until after the war.

Obviously many people fleeing Germany and the occupied countries during that period, knew something bad was happening, but overall, it’s my understanding that before and during the war, the rest of the world really wasn’t aware, or at least not aware about how bad it was.

It was the invasion of other countries that was cause to fight Germany. It was much less of a humanitarian act, though after the war it’s easy to paint it as one.

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Post by whatshisface »

Mediterraneo10 wrote: post #9
Causality1 wrote: post #3

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At least during Nazi Germany there was some interest in helping Jews escape. Yes, instances when ships of Jewish refugees were turned away from e.g. the USA have gone down in infamy, but there were still things like the Kindertransport. When it comes to the plight of the Uighurs, even fellow Muslim countries are loathe to provide any big public help due to the fear of alienating China.

If there's no support for Uighurs, who leaked the documents?

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Post by mtts »

monocasa wrote: post #18
anonymousse1234 wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Soviet Union did exactly that - they had gulags. North Korea is doing exactly that as we speak.

I mean, our prison system is worse than gulags, and we get away with it too.

Read up on the gulags sometime.

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Post by heavyset_go »

What I find chilling is that Uigher children are being kidnapped from their families and sent to barbed wire enclosed camps as well[1].

There, they are subjected to CCP brainwashing[2].

[1] https://youtu.be/v7AYyUqrMuQ?t=1791

[2] https://youtu.be/v7AYyUqrMuQ?t=1826

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