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China Uighurs: A model's video gives a rare glimpse inside internment

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> His uncle ... believes the video could galvanise public opinion in the same way that footage of the police treatment of George Floyd became a powerful symbol of racial discrimination in the US.

The worrying thing is, protests like those for George Floyd won't be possible to happen within China, and even if they happen overseas, most people inside China won't even be aware of them.

With the information control in place, long lasting suppression against minorities is one of the most terrifying things that can happen.

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It's atrocious what the CCP under Xi is doing. And it's dismaying that other quasi-authoritarian countries are taking note. From Basil Rajapaksa (part of the political family in Sri Lanka responsible for various war crimes during the civil war):

“I want our party to be a party like the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and how they act... We have learned from many political parties in the world. The best two are the BJP and CCP.” From http://www.newswire.lk/2020/07/30/basil-wants-slpp-to-become....

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The CCP imprisoned him and provided him a cell phone and internet so that he can communicate with the outside world... Well, if that also convinces you that I have nothing to say. This kind of propaganda from the West is something China cannot learn.

I sincerely don't understand how people can just disappear for years and how you don't see anything wrong with that.

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The CCP imprisoned him and provided him a cell phone and internet so that he can communicate with the outside world... Well, if that also convinces you that I have nothing to say. This kind of propaganda from the West is something China cannot learn.

If it’s genuine, it might also be smuggled in?

Also, cell phones tend to work anyway there’s cell coverage.

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Downvote me for this - If you're using China-made products, you're responsible for the bugger balls of CCP, unethical/illegal selling of human organs and what not. They are no different from a radical terrorist organization.

We are on HN and even here everyone will have issues identifying the make and even harder, the mining of the raw material in their phones, computers, lightbulbs. It is really not so easy to not buy from China. Maybe the end product is from Taiwan or Thailand or whatever, it still contains quite a lot of components from China. Which would make you what, a terrorist? It will take time and effort and yes, actual money (you will probably pay more) to change this. And we are on HN. Go talk to random people on the street about it.

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The CCP imprisoned him and provided him a cell phone and internet so that he can communicate with the outside world... Well, if that also convinces you that I have nothing to say. This kind of propaganda from the West is something China cannot learn.

So the videos are... made on a set that Westerners set up, using movie type effects? Or does China want people to believe they are doing this to... make for chilling effects without actually committing the atrocities?

The first is a positive assertion I'm acertaining because you stated this is Western Propaganda. If this is true, better start looking for evidence of this operation, because a single assumption that phones can't possibly get in is a pretty tenuous basis to create this positive assertion.

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