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@pisheng Should have #Tibet as South Asia and #EastTurkestan (#Xinjiang) as Central Asia.

What is the current situation of #EastTurkestan, aka #XinJiang? Is there a real #genocide? No one knows. But the fact is, Uyghurs are being forcefully assimilated and they are discriminated against in #China. Uyghur as a language is related to #Turkish and is totally unrelated to #Chinese. Many kids are forced to learn Chinese and give up #Uyghur. I first heard this Uyghur song when Youtube just started to become popular many years ago. I can play it on my guitar.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaaCjHHinz4

In January, we once again protested in the dark and cold outside the Chinese embassy in #WashingtonDC, demanding an end to the Chinese government's #genocide of the #Uyghur population of #Xinjiang (a.k.a. #EastTurkistan or #EastTurkestan). During our #protest, we read about four Uyghurs who are imprisoned in China, and read two poems by Uyghurs.

#China #CCP #TikkunOlam #HumanRights

Thank you to everyone who braved the cold and dark to attend our final #protest of 2024. We met outside the Chinese embassy in #WashingtonDC to demand an end to the Chinese government's #genocide of the #Uyghur population of #Xinjiang (a.k.a. #EastTurkistan or #EastTurkestan). We were honored to be joined by members of the Uyghur community.

#China #CCP #TikkunOlam #HumanRights

Highly 💯 recommended read: A recap of Northeast Asia’s unresolved conflicts of the past, now rearing their ugly head

This would be a great intro *before* any North Asian 101, with some cheeky entertaining bits as well... 🤓

“For starters, we can blame the Manchurians for invading China, the Uighurs, Mongolia, Tibet and Taiwan, calling it the Qing Dynasty and moving their emperor to Beijing, which was more centrally located and had a better nightlife.” 😁

“[Kuomintang] eventually succeeded, and established the Republic of China (ROC). Once in power, they changed their minds and claimed that “China” meant the entirety of the Qing Empire, which makes about as much sense as the Turks claiming the entirety of the Ottoman Empire.” 🔥

#Taiwan #KMT #china #CCP #Qing #Mongolia #Tibet #EastTurkestan #xinjiang #Manchuria #Korea #Japan

https://federated.press/@donovan_smith/113676435319095993

https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/archives/2024/12/19/2003828741

Got invited to attend a #climate #energy media tour in #HongKong.

Had to tell them that I am very unlikely to be allowed entry into HK due to my coverage of #humanrights in #Tibet #Taiwan #EastTurkestan, and gently called them out on holding an event in a place that's become so anti-press.

@Syphilia Takk! Biblioteket har de også her :)
Joda, noen har lest inn bind II også. Synes bokhylla mi fortjener disse eksemplarene 🤓📕📖 Håper Jaap van Huysmans Minde-sjappa også har de! StraX 40 år her og kanskje 15+ år i dvale politisk, men det begynner å røske litt i rettferdighetssansen med alt som skjer #Kurdistan #gaza #eastturkestan #Myanmar ++ og det er så forferdelig tragisk at det anarkistiske perspektiv som er så aktuelt er så lite synlig! 🏴

#Introduction

The Uyghur Crisis Response Team of Adas Israel Congregation in Washington, DC advocates for an end to the Chinese Communist Party's genocide of the Uyghur population of East Turkistan (Xinjiang) and destruction of the Uyghur culture. We hold monthly protests outside the Chinese embassy and work with others to raise awareness of this ongoing tragedy.

#Uyghur #Genocide #HumanRights #UyghurGenocide #Protest #WashingtonDC #Xinjiang #EastTurkistan #EastTurkestan #TikkunOlam #CCP

Seeing this made this think, arguably, right now, we have, simultaneously, the most documented #genocide in history, in #Gaza, and, on the other side of the #Islamic world, the least-documented genocide in modern history, of the #Uyghurs by #China in #Xinjiang.

Both targeting a mostly #Muslim people, whose land was occupied after World War due to decisions made by European powers (#UK for #Palestine, #Russia for #EastTurkestan.)

https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/7/17/gaza-is-most-documented-genocide-in-history-says-palestinian-un-rep

@adnan They certainly do - the #Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention act prohibits any goods linked to #Xinjiang (#EastTurkestan) https://www.cbp.gov/trade/forced-labor/UFLPA

A lot of goods are implicated - https://c4ads.org/commentary/fault-lines/

In general, tariffs generally aim to protect key domestic industries, like automobiles, from unfair competition.

R to @benedictrogers: I spoke about my love of the peoples of #China, #Tibet, #EastTurkestan, #Taiwan and #HongKong, and their diverse and beautiful cultures - and my opposition to the #XiJinping #CCP brutal repressive criminal regime / https://nitter.hongkongers.net/benedictrogers/status/1752047093928038825#m

HKDC's @AnnaKwokFY calls on @SecBlinken & @POTUS to raise w/ Wang Yi: --#TransnationalRepression: HK gov't bounties on her & others --Release all #PoliticalPrisoners in #HongKong --Close concentration camps in #EastTurkestan & boarding schools in #Tibet https://x.com/committeeonccp/status/1717871910460006490?s=20 https://nitter.hongkongers.net/hkdc_us/status/1717874261845549136#m

Far right extreme #Imperialistic #Zionism is the root cause of all Israeli-#Palestinian conflicts. How can the West support #Tibetans and #Uyghurs and Condemn #China, but at the same time condemn Palestinians who are the victims of #Israeli Imperialism? Netanyahu's far right #Zionist regime is the SAME as the #CCP. #EastTurkestan #Tibet #Israel

☝️ The Bingtuan: China’s Paramilitary Colonizing Force in East Turkestan
https://uhrp.org/report/the-bingtuan-chinas-paramilitary-colonizing-force-in-east-turkestan/

Why Xinjiang is an internal settler colony
https://thechinaproject.com/2021/09/01/why-xinjiang-is-an-internal-settler-colony/

#CCP #china #imperialism #genocide #propaganda #HanChauvinism #HanSupremacism #sinification #Bingtuan #XPCC #EastTurkestan #Uyghur

📜 CCP uses Unesco (UN) to rewrite history.

「But there is more to China’s efforts [through Unesco #worldheritage status] than increasing tea sales and tourism. The Communist Party claims that present-day China, which has dozens (perhaps hundreds) of ethnic minorities, is a single nation with a continuous history stretching back thousands of years. National identity is conflated with that of the Han, the ethnic group accounting for more than 90% of the population. China’s heritage laws aim to maintain “the unification of the country” and foster “social harmony”. In practice, this often means distorting history so that it aligns with the party’s view of the past and reinforces its vision of nationhood.」

The actual imperial military occupations and settler colonialism of both Tibetan and Uyghur homelands only began soon after Chinese communists had overthrown the Republic of China (the losing Kuomintang nationalists fled to Taiwan...). Chinese had no foothold on the previously nearly inaccessible Tibetan plateau so Mao sent entire 'PLA' armies there, equipped with modern *foreign* weaponry and gear. Besides all the massacres that followed — an estimated one million Tibetans were killed — the Chinese invaders looted and destroyed as much of Tibet's invaluable heritage as they could. While major monasteries (functioning as *the* key places of religion and learning in the Buddhist society) were looted, ransacked, defaced and partially destroyed, in total almost all of the country's 3,000 places of worship were simply destroyed; some were used for... artillery target practice.

The more accessible East Turkestan (ch: '#xinjiang') was targeted for settler #colonialism by establishing a new paramilitary settler corps, #Bingtuan. Those (ex-)soldiers were not only provided with Han Chinese brides but they were allowed to keep their AK-47s... You can guess what happened to the Uyghur homeland next. (links to background in the post below)

https://www.economist.com/china/2023/09/21/how-china-uses-unesco-to-rewrite-history

#CCP #china #imperialism #genocide #propaganda #HanChauvinism #HanSupremacism #sinification #UnitedNations #UN #Unesco #EastTurkestan #Uyghurs #Tibet

@kkarhan I guess occupied people or second-class "citizens" have even less rights. Uyghurs and Tibetans don't even have freedom to travel within #China anymore, or even within #Tibet or #EastTurkestan.

⬆️ Estonian PM Kaja Kallas interviewed in Singapore:

“Russia are the last imperial colonialistic power there is in the world... ”

🤔

Mere momentary myopia, deliberate appeasement (of #russia's dominant 'brother'), or is PM Kallas genuinely unaware...??

All Estonians should not only know but have the deepest solidarity possible for the peoples still facing eradication.

#Estonia #CCP #china #Tibet #EastTurkestan #Mongolia #Taiwan #Hongkong #Bhutan #India #9dashline
@kajakallas

This week is the #GlobalWeekOfPrayerForChina Join us in praying for everyone suffering under #XiJinping #CCP in #China #HongKong #Tibet #EastTurkestan and beyond https://www.theepochtimes.com/a-prayer-for-the-victims-of-the-ccp_5281892.html https://nitter.hongkongers.net/benedictrogers/status/1660950777945366528#m

Although I have had my #photography published internationally, I think the most meaningful publication I've had to date is in a report on the #RuleOfLaw by the American Bar Association Rule of Law Institute and the Bar Human Rights Committee of England & Wales published last year (2022).

#LifeByStills #EditorialByStills #Photography #Photojournalism #China #HumanRights #Xinjiang #EastTurkestan #Tibet

I've had various publications internationally, like 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘎𝘶𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘪𝘢𝘯 in the UK and 𝘞𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘴𝘵 in Poland. But I think the most meaningful publication I've had to date is in a report on the #RuleOfLaw by the American Bar Association Rule of Law Institute and the Bar Human Rights Committee of England & Wales published last year (2022).

#LifeByStills #EditorialByStills #Photography #Photojournalism #China #HumanRights #Xinjiang #EastTurkestan #Tibet

#CCP's chief cadre on French TV : buffer states are mere vassals, not sovereign states. 👀

「China's ambassador to France unabashedly asserts that the former Soviet republics have « no effective status in international law » as « sovereign states » 🤯

He denies the very existence of countries like #Ukraine, #Lithuania, #Estonia, #Kazakhstan, etc. 😳

“In international law, even these ex-Soviet Union countries they do not have the status, how to say, the effective status in the international law because there is no international agreement to materialize their status of a sovereign country”」

🔗 https://nitter.nl/AntoineBondaz/status/1649528853251911690

#imperialism #colonialism #lebensraum #dictatorship #authoritarianism #china #russia #putin #sovietunion #EuropeanUnion #Taiwan #Tibet #EastTurkestan #India #Bhutan #SouthChinaSea

R to @benedictrogers: I need to find a #EastTurkestan #Uyghur flag and a #HongKong #LiberateHongKongRevolutionOfOurTimes or #BlackBauhinia flag now, to display in my home :) @Dolkun_Isa @MahmutRahima @finnlau_cd @Stand_with_HK - any suggestions of where I can find them? https://nitter.hongkongers.net/benedictrogers/status/1646570029528350724#m

From what I understand #Americans are two thirds decent and one third criminally ignorant (or criminally misled).

I have no reason to think #Chinese peoples — or the nations under military occupation of the #NeverElected CCP #dictatorship — would be any worse, given a *say* in their affairs.

In the very last partially free elections in #Hongkong in 2019 pro-democracts won majority of the votes in every single one of the 18 districts.

You can read that again.

Of course now those #Hongkonger democracts are *all* either in prison, in exile or hiding from public life. But it gives you some idea...

#UnitedStates #china #prc #ccp #tibet #EastTurkestan #EuropeanUnion
@BBCWorld

@radeksikorski : “Do you really want us to wonder every time we consider buying a Chinese product whether it will finance Putin's war?“

Maybe we should also ask #Tibetans, #Uighurs, #Hongkongers and the over a billion voiceless #Chinese subjects of the never-elected #CCP #dictatorship about the issue of funding and trading with the #PRC regime?

And how about all the autocrats and despots across the world funded and supported by the CCP in its #UnitedFront campaign to fight and crush it's greatest existential threat #democracy globally?

@radeksikorski : “it would again divide the world into warring blocs“ 👀

Maybe it's time to stop aiding and abetting *all* dictatorships and concentrate on supporting the actual values the #UnitedNations was founded to protect and nurture?

#authoritarianism #genocide #putin #russia #xijinping #china #ufwd #pla #Tibet #EastTurkestan #Hongkong #Taiwan #SouthChinaSea #India #EuropeanUnion #WarOnDemocracy
@EPPGroup

Adrian Zenz:

"New UN #humanrights chief Volker Türk disappoints on #Xinjiang as he outlines a focus on quiet diplomacy with Beijing, failing to voice stronger concerns.

Sounds like docile career diplomacy."

[link to AlJazeera]

🐦 https://twitter.com/adrianzenz/status/1633289887154679808

#CCP #PRC #china #repression #genocide #EastTurkestan
@cmorris

The UN #humanrights supremo Volker Türk's straight talk on the genocidal treatment of #Uighurs under #Chinese occupation is very welcome, if painfully overdue.

#AmnestyInternational's #AgnesCallamard 'retweeting' it...? Now I'm anxiously waiting for the #bothsidesism argument. Did the Uighurs deserve it by having their one and only homeland only a week's nonstop horseride from the farthest Chinese imperial outpost in the west..?

#CCP #PRC #china #repression #genocide #EastTurkestan
@cmorris

RT from Free Tibet (@freetibetorg)

🚨BIG NEWS🚨

Welsh Gov’t and police forces freeze ❄️ purchases of @hikvision cameras, a company part owned by the CCP linked with repression in #Tibet and #EastTurkestan.

🧵1/4

I see that anti-government protests are starting in #China. Hopefully this will be the straw that breaks the camel's back, improves things for the #Uighur in #EastTurkestan, and ideally overthrows the #CCP.

That seems to be the trajectory #Iran is heading in, and the fewer repressive dictatorships the better.

Let's not look away on what's going on.

Support to the people of Tibet, Hong-Kong, East Turkestan and to all of the others which are facing the authoritarianism of the Chinese Communist Party.

#eastturkestan
#FreeUyghurs

#China detains Uighurs for growing beards or visiting foreign websites, leak reveals - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/18/china-detains-uighurs-for-growing-beards-or-visiting-foreign-websites-leak-reveals we should not forget the horrors being visited upon muslims in #eastturkestan...