There is not “plenty of evidence”, there are plenty of wild claims and unverifiable stories,
“Xinjiang is a vast region with an area of 1.66 million km2. Until the 1950s, Uyghurs were the majority ethnic group in the region, accounting for more than 90 percent of the total population.”
“Between the 1940s and the 1980s, attempts to incorporate the region into the modern Chinese national state brought about a 2,500 per cent increase in the Han population. Today, Han and Uyghurs each account for approximately 40 per cent of Xinjiang’s total population of roughly 25.5 million. Clearly, the basic trajectory over the past decades has been one of moving Han rapidly into the region. This is coupled in more recent years with a significant shrinking of the Uyghur population.”
“The Han population in the region increased at an average rate of 8.1 per cent yearly, from 5 per cent in 1947 to around 40 per cent in 2000. Officially, Uyghurs comprise about 45 percent of Xinjiang’s permanent population with Han representing approximately 42 percent, and Kazakh, Hui and other ethnicities making up the rest. However, these figures belie the very high number of long-term resident and temporary Han migrant workers as well as thousands of security personnel in Xinjiang. They also obscure data from the 2020 Chinese Statistical Yearbook, showing that between 2017 and 2019 the birth rate in Xinjiang dropped approximately 48.7 per cent, from 15.88 per thousand in 2017 to 8.14 per thousand in 2019. The average for all of China was 10.48 per thousand.”
“The capital of the province itself went from being a city in which there were hardly any Han Chinese before 1949 to one in which the Uyghurs have been almost completely displaced. In addition, across Xinjiang, urban redesign projects have demolished hundreds of thousands of homes and resettled millions of Uyghur residents on the pretext of ‘civilization’ (文明) and ‘beautification’ (美化).”
“Since the mid-1990s, the gradual exclusion of Uyghurs from state-based employment – and the rising number of private jobs – is statistically verifiable from a variety of sources. While Han Chinese were able to secure employment, Uyghurs were kept out of construction jobs, road-building projects and oil and gas pipelines. Uyghurs with graduate degrees were only employed at an estimated 15 per cent, and, according to a 2013 study, Uyghurs earned an average of 59 per cent of what their Han counterparts earned.”
about a country& region that is currently completely open to foreign tourism no less.
"While Xinjiang is generally open to international tourism, there are specific travel restrictions and measures in place, particularly for certain groups and areas. Generally, foreigners do not need a special permit to enter Xinjiang, but they do need a valid Chinese visa. However, there are restrictions on travel in specific areas, and increased security measures are common, especially in major cities. "
You admit you don’t believe there’s a genocide occuring, yet still choose to believe the people/organizations making these claims despite the fact that all of them claim that a genocide is occuring.
You can still massively suppress a minority group without committing what is commonly thought to be a genocide.
Just because I don’t completely agree with the conclusions made from a body of evidence doesn’t mean the evidence is invalid.
Han chauvinism existing does absolutely nothing to prove the specific accusations being presented. When a government chooses to target a minority population it invariably results in physical evidence, see Palestine for examples.
What accusations of mine are you denying?
As I said there is plenty of evidence to confirm that a minority group is being put into concentration camps for "reeducation " and that they are being forced to move away from their traditional homeland. This isn’t even being denied by the Chinese government, they just validate it as a way to control what they lable as terrorism.
The evidence I provided is sourced by an organization that also documents the crimes currently occuring in Gaza.
should be more than enough reason for any reasonable person to disregard these stories until such evidence is presented.
As I said, there’s plenty of evidence that’s been cross referenced and verified by dozens of advocacy groups who often stand against America’s foreign policy. Most of the evidence comes from internal documents created by the Chinese government itself.
I don’t have any specific prejudice against the Chinese government, it like any government does things that I agree with and disagree with. You on the other hand don’t seem to be able to get over your own biases.
None of what you’ve copypasted here would prove anything close to genocide or even systematic oppression even if any of it were true, and your “source” presents absolutely no evidence to support their claims, it’s literally just paragraph after paragraph of “trust me bro”. None of the claims regarding systematic exclusion are in any way verifiable. Your only source is also verifiably funded by the US and our allies, who have a long and equally verifiable history of making shit up about other countries to justify our foreign policy. You’re a fucking joke.
None of what you’ve copypasted here would prove anything close to genocide
Lol, I think I specifically outlined that this was evidence of a minority group being suppressed, not genocide.
systematic oppression even if any of it were true
And what is your rebuttal to this sourced information? What evidence do you have to dispute any of the evidence I laid out?
For someone who is so anal about the sourcing of evidence, you seem to be lacking any kind of counter argument.
your “source” presents absolutely no evidence to support their claims, it’s literally just paragraph after paragraph of “trust me bro”.
Lol, what aspect of their write up are you rebutting? In the “paragraphs after paragraphs” of information you are rebutting they state they are utilizing information published by census data published by the Chinese government.
Central European Initiative
Eleanor Rathbone Charitable Trust
European Union
Evan Cornish Foundation
Finnish Ministry for Foreign Affairs
Foundation for International Law for the Environment
International Development Research Centre
International Research & Exchanges Board
Irish Aid
Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Open Society Foundations
Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency
The Blanes Trust
The Miaan Group
The United Nations Democracy Fund
The United States Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor
The United Nations Population Fund
Wellcome Trust
And much of these sponsors are also condemning the crimes sponsored by the US in Israel. Just accepting funding from an org doesn’t mean your evidence is by rote incorrect.
You are not rebutting any of the actual evidence, you’re just moralizing.
“Xinjiang is a vast region with an area of 1.66 million km2. Until the 1950s, Uyghurs were the majority ethnic group in the region, accounting for more than 90 percent of the total population.”
“Between the 1940s and the 1980s, attempts to incorporate the region into the modern Chinese national state brought about a 2,500 per cent increase in the Han population. Today, Han and Uyghurs each account for approximately 40 per cent of Xinjiang’s total population of roughly 25.5 million. Clearly, the basic trajectory over the past decades has been one of moving Han rapidly into the region. This is coupled in more recent years with a significant shrinking of the Uyghur population.”
“The Han population in the region increased at an average rate of 8.1 per cent yearly, from 5 per cent in 1947 to around 40 per cent in 2000. Officially, Uyghurs comprise about 45 percent of Xinjiang’s permanent population with Han representing approximately 42 percent, and Kazakh, Hui and other ethnicities making up the rest. However, these figures belie the very high number of long-term resident and temporary Han migrant workers as well as thousands of security personnel in Xinjiang. They also obscure data from the 2020 Chinese Statistical Yearbook, showing that between 2017 and 2019 the birth rate in Xinjiang dropped approximately 48.7 per cent, from 15.88 per thousand in 2017 to 8.14 per thousand in 2019. The average for all of China was 10.48 per thousand.”
“The capital of the province itself went from being a city in which there were hardly any Han Chinese before 1949 to one in which the Uyghurs have been almost completely displaced. In addition, across Xinjiang, urban redesign projects have demolished hundreds of thousands of homes and resettled millions of Uyghur residents on the pretext of ‘civilization’ (文明) and ‘beautification’ (美化).”
“Since the mid-1990s, the gradual exclusion of Uyghurs from state-based employment – and the rising number of private jobs – is statistically verifiable from a variety of sources. While Han Chinese were able to secure employment, Uyghurs were kept out of construction jobs, road-building projects and oil and gas pipelines. Uyghurs with graduate degrees were only employed at an estimated 15 per cent, and, according to a 2013 study, Uyghurs earned an average of 59 per cent of what their Han counterparts earned.”
Source from Minority Rights Group
"While Xinjiang is generally open to international tourism, there are specific travel restrictions and measures in place, particularly for certain groups and areas. Generally, foreigners do not need a special permit to enter Xinjiang, but they do need a valid Chinese visa. However, there are restrictions on travel in specific areas, and increased security measures are common, especially in major cities. "
You can still massively suppress a minority group without committing what is commonly thought to be a genocide.
Just because I don’t completely agree with the conclusions made from a body of evidence doesn’t mean the evidence is invalid.
What accusations of mine are you denying?
As I said there is plenty of evidence to confirm that a minority group is being put into concentration camps for "reeducation " and that they are being forced to move away from their traditional homeland. This isn’t even being denied by the Chinese government, they just validate it as a way to control what they lable as terrorism.
The evidence I provided is sourced by an organization that also documents the crimes currently occuring in Gaza.
As I said, there’s plenty of evidence that’s been cross referenced and verified by dozens of advocacy groups who often stand against America’s foreign policy. Most of the evidence comes from internal documents created by the Chinese government itself.
I don’t have any specific prejudice against the Chinese government, it like any government does things that I agree with and disagree with. You on the other hand don’t seem to be able to get over your own biases.
None of what you’ve copypasted here would prove anything close to genocide or even systematic oppression even if any of it were true, and your “source” presents absolutely no evidence to support their claims, it’s literally just paragraph after paragraph of “trust me bro”. None of the claims regarding systematic exclusion are in any way verifiable. Your only source is also verifiably funded by the US and our allies, who have a long and equally verifiable history of making shit up about other countries to justify our foreign policy. You’re a fucking joke.
Lol, I think I specifically outlined that this was evidence of a minority group being suppressed, not genocide.
And what is your rebuttal to this sourced information? What evidence do you have to dispute any of the evidence I laid out?
For someone who is so anal about the sourcing of evidence, you seem to be lacking any kind of counter argument.
Lol, what aspect of their write up are you rebutting? In the “paragraphs after paragraphs” of information you are rebutting they state they are utilizing information published by census data published by the Chinese government.
Central European Initiative Eleanor Rathbone Charitable Trust European Union Evan Cornish Foundation Finnish Ministry for Foreign Affairs Foundation for International Law for the Environment International Development Research Centre International Research & Exchanges Board Irish Aid Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Open Society Foundations Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency The Blanes Trust The Miaan Group The United Nations Democracy Fund The United States Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor The United Nations Population Fund Wellcome Trust
And much of these sponsors are also condemning the crimes sponsored by the US in Israel. Just accepting funding from an org doesn’t mean your evidence is by rote incorrect.
You are not rebutting any of the actual evidence, you’re just moralizing.