#uyghur genocide

[weemietime]

This subreddit is a cesspool of garbage.

It's a popular leftist social media hub and it is taken over by deranged shit like this. Posting war footage which by the way, Ukraine has the same type of footage you can find lol so does Syria, Lebanon, Afghanistan, Iraq. War is not genocide.

And on top of that they clearly are implying that the Uyghurs aren't being genocided, once again not comprehending what genocide is, which is not relative to how many died or how much destruction was caused.

Genocide is determined by genocidal intent. And the Chinese government very much intends to erase the Uyghurs. Say you oppose genocide while denying an actual genocide ongoing in front of you. Lunatic behavior.

[turkicculture]

Traditional Uyghur clothing, East Turkeastan

[ana-bananya]

Hi! My last donation post reached the 100 link limit so this is my new one. I'm going to work on getting individual lists for each cause and linking them here, so it's a bit more organized than the last one.

I have added a few new links, but for the time being, I am focusing on the campaigns I have listed. While I do not have the capacity to take on anymore campaigns, I will still reblog ones I see others post about to help share them.

I will do my best to keep the links updated with their progress.

DISCLAIMER: I do not vet fundraisers. I only share ones that have been vetted by others, vouched for, or are credible.

Palestine

Sudan

Congo

Tigray

Resources for Syria

Resources for Haiti

Hurricane Beryl Relief resources

Arab.org - Daily clicks

World Food Programme trivia game - play to generate donations

Links to more causes:

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The Levin House Child Foundation (gfm: £8,438/£35,000 - VERY low on funds)‼️

Uyghurs

Uyghur Human Rights Project

Static & Noise - Film and Advocacy

Free Uyghur Now

Foundation for Uyghur Freedom

List of ethical clothing brands

Haiti

P4H Global Education Development

P4H Canal Support

Hope for Haiti

Action Against Hunger

List of resources for Haiti made by @/hobiebrownies on twitter (places to donate, accounts to follow, news sources, and educational links)

Thread of gfms for Haiti

Startup Progression society art school Haïti (€2,756/5,000)‼️

Rohingya Refugees

Urgent Education Aid for Rohingya Refugee Students, organized by Rohingya Community Partners ($7,515/$15,000) STAGNANT FOR OVER A MONTH‼️

Emergency Relief for Rohingya Families, organized by The Rohingya Women's Network ($12,513 /$20,000 AUD)‼️

Qurbani Emergency Aid for Rohingya Refugees ($11,710/$12,000) STAGNANT FOR OVER TWO MONTHS‼️

Advocating for Peace and Building Hope: RCP Appeal, organized by Rohingya Community Partners (£18,760/£20,000)

Nigeria

Donate to the Humanitarian crisis in northwest Nigeria ($5,374/$15,000 CAD - VERY low on funds) ‼️

Medical and sanitary supplies to support women & children in Congo, Nigeria, and Sudan ($35/$3,000 CAD - VERY low on funds) STAGNANT FOR OVER TWO MONTHS‼️

Claire Aid Foundation

Action Against Hunger

Lebanon

Lebanese Red Cross

Supporting Africans Trapped in Lebanon ($33,454/40,000 CAD)‼️*shared by Sara (@/bsonblast)

Sultan and his family ($1,982/30,000 CAD)‼️

Donate to Beit el Baraka - select South Lebanon Aid for the "where to donate" list

Listed of vetted Lebanese fundraisers

[esmemarion]

I've been really angry and drained from the state of the world at the moment, so I felt the need to draw something that spelt out my desire for peace. Spread awareness for all of this.

[yasyassie]

As we enter pride month again,

let's remember that capitalism will never benefit queer people, as it is a system that will always prioritize profit over people.

Let's remember that corporate pride isn't real pride, that companies literally just see us as consumers and nothing more, that they don't care about our rights.

Let's support small buisnesses, small content creators, small writers and artists and musicians who make really queer and really good stuff, and who stand up against injustice.

Let's continue to boycott big brands for our palestinian, uyghur and congolese brothers and sisters.

Let our humanity guide us instead of the need to buy and fall into the capitalist trap of thinking that someone belongs more because they can buy more.

Please, boycott corporate pride and choose decolonisation this month.

None of us is free until we all are.

[odinsblog]

Since 2014, millions of Uyghurs, Kazakhs and other minorities have been locked up in China and subjected to torture and forced labour. Some of those freed talk about trying to rebuild their lives in neighbouring Kazakhstan.

Photography by Robin Tutenges

A Chinese course book

Saliman Yesbolat used to live in Ghulja county, Xinjiang. After she refused to denounce her Uyghur neighbours to the police, she was forced to perform the raising of the Chinese flag every Monday at dawn, and to attend Chinese lessons twice a week in the basement of her building, where she would learn the Chinese language, patriotic songs and Xi Jinping's discourses by heart. This is her exercise book.

Forced to leave China

At 65, Imam Madi Toleukhan is one of the oldest refugees in Bekbolat, Kazakhstan, where more than 100 families took shelter after fleeing the Chinese regime. 'We were richer back there. I owned a herd, but I was too afraid for my sons, my grandchildren and their future: I came to Kazakhstan to save them. I didn't want them to be the fourth generation to suffer at the hands of the Chinese government, he says.

Remembering Uyghur culture in exile

Two members of the Dolan Ensemble, a Uyghur dance troupe based in Kazakhstan, get ready before performing a traditional dance to mark 40 days since the birth of a baby. Founded in 2016, the troupe performs at festivals or private events that bring together members of the Uyghur community, some of whom have had to leave Xinjiang.

Torture, infertility and damaged genitalia

In Kazakhstan, medical care for camp survivors is poor. Most victims can barely afford to see a family doctor. Anara*, an endocrinologist in a Kazakh hospital who has examined about 50 camp survivors since 2020, noticed recurrent infertility problems among her patients. 'Men or women, many have damaged genitalia. Some told me they'd been given drugs, others said they'd been raped. As they didn't come to us right after being released from the camps, it's impossible to know what kind of drugs they were administered in Xinjiang, she says. *Not her real name

The tiger chair

Ospan* spent a year in a re-education camp. He says his mind and body were crushed by the tortures he experienced in a tiger chair - a steel apparatus with handcuffs that restrains the body in painful positions. Aged about 50, this former shepherd, who took refuge with his family in eastern Kazakhstan, is no longer fit for work. Physically wrecked and prone to headaches, he mourns the loss of his memory above all. 'I used to know a lot of songs and I loved to sing; I also knew poems by heart ... Now, I can't sing any more, I can't remember the words,' he says. *Not his real name

Broken families and imprisonment

Aikamal Rashibek saw the dreadful efficiency of the CCP's brainwashing on her husband, Kerimbek Bakytali, after he was released from a Chinese psychiatric hospital. 'He disappeared for a year. When he came back, he didn't tell me anything about what happened to him. He was highly unhinged, always nervous, and got angry whenever I asked questions. He couldn't stop repeating that he hated Kazakhstan now, and that he wanted to go back to China with the kids to give them a Chinese education, says Aikamal. They are now separated.

Missing loved ones in China’s camps

In March 2017, Miyessar Muhedamu, left, a Uyghur woman, was arrested in Xinjiang under the pretext that she had studied Arabic in Egypt when she was young. Her husband, Sadirzhan Ayupov, right, and her three children have not seen her since. Now that Miyessar has left the camp, Sadirzhan receives a short call every few months. He suspects she might have suffered abuse, yet Miyessar can’t speak freely. ‘She told me she’d been in a re-education camp, and that she’d been released. When I ask her what she went through there, she doesn’t answer,’ says Sadirzhan.

Life after fleeing China

Sent to a re-education camp in 2018 at the age of 64, Yerke* saw her health quickly deteriorate. Locked a tiny cell with dozens of other women, she almost lost the use of her legs due to the cold floor she had to lie on. She was in the camp when she learned of her son’s death: pressured by the Chinese authorities, he took his own life. After her release, Yerke fled to Kazakhstan with some family members, but two of her children remain in China. *Not her real name

Forced labour and confessions

Dina Nurdybay, 32, was arrested in Nilka county, Xinjiang, because her traditional Kazakh clothing business made her a separatist, according to the Chinese authorities. She spent 11 months between two re-education camps, a CCP school and a forced-labour sewing factory. After proving she was capable of being ‘well behaved’ and having performed a self-criticism in front of the whole village, Dina was released and managed to escape when she obtained a week’s leave to visit her ailing father in Kazakhstan.

Cultural genocide

China’s repression of ethnic minorities also involves cultural genocide. As Muslim rituals are forbidden in Xinjiang, people are trying to keep their traditions alive across borders. Here, a family is praying together in Kazakhstan after the death of one of their relatives in Xinjiang. They could not repatriate the body because the border between the two countries was closed at the time.

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[thescaredsapphic]

Resource list for countries in need

[noneedforbloodpressure]

Working Masterpost of Charities for Genocide & Humanitarian Crises

Want to help Palestine, Sudan, Congo, Ukraine, East Turkestan, Armenia or other places facing genocide but don't know where to donate? Have limited funds and want to make sure your money helps as many people as possible? I've compiled some resources to help you get started.

Note that this is a working masterpost, meaning that I'll update it as I find more resources. This is also an inherently non-conclusive list, in significant part because I'm just one person. I urge you to do further research of your own

TIPS FOR DONATING

Charity Navigator and Charity Watch are useful sites to vet charity organizations

If you're employed, check out Charity Navigator's guide to employer donation matches.

GENERAL

Resources here are not specific to any one region in crisis, but you may be able to specify where you want your donation to be used

Doctors Without Borders/Medicins sans Frontieres (98% charity rating)

OxFam (98% charity rating)

UNICEF (94% charity rating)

World Central Kitchen (100% charity rating!)

MAUSA - Muslim Aid USA (98% charity rating)

CARE (97% charity rating)

International Committee of the Red Cross (85% charity rating)

UNHCR - UN Refugee Agency (the US branch has an 84% charity rating)

International Rescue Committee (96% charity rating)

HAIS (100% charity rating!)

Region Specific Charities Under the Cut!

PALESTINE

Palestine Children's Relief Fund (97% charity rating)

ANERA (91% charity rating)

Palestine Red Crescent Society (no specific rating, but part of a movement with the Red Cross, which - as mentioned above - has an 85% charity rating)

ALLMEP (85% charity rating)

Middle East Children's Alliance (100% charity rating!)

UNRWA (the US branch has an 89% charity rating)

eSIMs for Gaza (not currently rated, but you can read about the importance here on NBC)

Women Wage Peace (not currently rated, but you can read about their efforts on their website and via Time Magazine)

SUDAN

Sudanese Red Crescent Society (no specific rating, but part of a movement with the Red Cross, which - as mentioned above - has an 85% charity rating)

Sadagaat Charity Organization (the US branch has an 80% charity rating)

Sudanese-American Physicians Association (97% charity rating)

Khartoum Aid Kitchen (no charity rating, but you can read the effort here on NPR)

Darfur Women Action Group (not currently rated; page may be updated)

Water for South Sudan (97% charity rating)

Sudan Relief Fund (96% charity rating)

CONGO

Friends of the Congo (81% charity rating)

Panzi Foundation (91% charity rating)

UKRAINE

Ukraine Humanitarian Fund (recommended by here by Charity Watch)

Catholic Relief Services (not currently rated; read about their efforts here on Charity Watch)

ACT Alliance (recommended by here by Charity Watch)

Project HOPE (93% charity rating)

EAST TURKESTAN

East Turkestan, also called Uyghurstan, is the indigenous name for the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in China. If you're unfamiliar with the Uyghur genocide, you can read some intro information here on BBC

Uyghur Human Rights Project (84% charity rating)

Save Uyghur - Justice for All (94% charity rating)

ARMENIA

If you're unfamiliar with the current Armenian genocide by Azerbaijan, you can read some intro information here on CNN

CARITAS Armenia (no specific rating, but part of CARITAS, which as a 98% charity rating)

Armenia Fund (not currently rated)

Armenian National Committee of America (not currently rated)

LEBANON

ANERA - Lebanon (91% charity rating)

Oxfam - Lebanon (98% charity rating)

ICRC - Lebanon (85% charity rating)

UNICEF - Lebanon (94% charity rating)

UNHCR - Lebanon (the US branch has an 84% charity rating)

UN Lebanon Humanitarian Fund (Currently unrated, as far as I can tell)

[hayatheauthor]

Eid Mubarak to all the orphans in Gaza who have no new clothes to wear, no family to visit, no home to decorate. Who witness bombs tearing their sky apart while we watch fireworks.

Eid Mubarak to all the Muslims in Turkistan, the Uyghurs who are stripped of their right to choose their religion and follow it, who are ethnically cleansed and religiously coerced. Who have been sent to camps and tortured simply due to their faith.

Eid Mubarak to the Sundanese and Congolese who celebrate this auspicious day with bombs flying over their heads and soot staining their hands, the biggest victims of our consumerism.

Eid Mubarak to all the Muslims who don’t have families to celebrate with or money to purchase clothes and decorations. This year has made it clearer than ever that Eid is not the same for everyone. Remember to pray for our struggling Ummah and be grateful for your blessings. 🌙🤍

[sumechiayuu]

Despite hardship there is still light in the children’s eyes

Ways to help Palestine

Ways to help the Uyghur people

Ways to help the Uyghur people (2)

Ways to help Ukraine

Ways to help Ukraine (2)

Masterpost

Masterpost (2)

Masterpost (3)

[sillycourtjester]

I made a zine

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[al-kol-eleh]

Hillel Neuer

[turkicculture]

Kashgar, East Turkestan

[ana-bananya]

Boosting some fundraisers

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Help Asjad and her Family Escape War in Sudan ($13,167/$20,000)

Support families impacted by war - benefiting the Basmat Wasal, Sameh Makki kitchen appeal, and medical supplies for Northern State hospital initiatives (£57,329 raised of £80,000)

Emergency aid for Ahmeds family to escape warzone in Sudan (£3,365/£10,000 - VERY low on funds) ‼️ 

Help A Family Flee Sudan’s War (£722/£10,000 - VERY low on funds) ‼️

Support families in Kalma IDP camp (£15,745/£16,000)

Give2Goma ($53,491/$100,000)

Medical and sanitary supplies to support women & children in Congo, Nigeria, and Sudan ($410 CAD/$3,000 CAD - VERY low on funds) ‼️

Help a Congolese family evacuate ($21,062 CAD/$40,000 CAD)

Support Congolese Refugees: Help Us Bring Hope to Refugees ($9,975 CAD/$100,000 CAD - VERY low on funds)

Relief for displaced civilians in DRC (€5,704/€20,000 - VERY low on funds)

Help evacuate Adam, Iyad, and the Al-Kafarna family ($151,502/$180,000) ‼️

Help Save Ahmed and His Family ($135/$40,000 - VERY low on funds) Ahmed's PayPal

Help Amer Abdelmalek evacuate his family to Canada  (66,043 CAD/$100,000 CAD)

Help Liela get medical treatment for her mother in Egypt ‼️ (3,101 CAD/$20,000 CAD - VERY low on funds)

Help Waleed's family evacuate to safety ($8,899/$36,000 - VERY low on funds) ‼️

Uyghur Human Rights Project

Support an Uyghur orphan's education (79% raised) ‼️

Static & Noise - Film and advocacy for Uyghurs

More places to donate are linked in my pinned post

[ammg-old2]

How do you protect a culture that is being wiped out?

For Uighurs, this is more than just a hypothetical. Repressive measures against the ethnic minority have progressively worsened: The Chinese government has corralled more than 1 million of them into internment camps, where they have been subjected to political indoctrination, forced sterilization, and torture.

The targeting of the Uighurs isn’t limited to the camps. Since 2016, dozens of graveyards and religious sites have been destroyed. The Uighur language has been banned in Xinjiang schools in favor of Mandarin Chinese. Practicing Islam, the predominant Uighur faith, has been discouraged as a “sign of extremism.”

Beijing frames these moves as its way of rooting out terrorism, separatism, and religious extremism. But the aim of China’s actions in Xinjiang is clear: to homogenize Uighurs into the country’s Han Chinese majority, even if that means erasing their cultural and religious identity for good. What is taking place is a cultural genocide.

The repercussions bear heavily even on Uighurs living outside the country. Their burden is more than just raising awareness about what is taking place in their homeland—a task many have taken up at great cost to themselves and their families. It’s also about preserving and promoting their identity in countries where few people might know who the Uighurs are, let alone what the world stands to lose should their language, food, art, and traditions be eradicated.

In an effort to understand what this kind of cultural preservation looks like in practice, I spoke with seven Uighurs residing in Britain, France, Turkey, and the United States. As chefs, poets, singers, filmmakers, language teachers, and musicians, each of them is contributing to this work in different ways. All of them are passionate about ensuring that their heritage will be passed on to future generations. None of them is under any illusions about what’s at stake if they fail.

“Every Uighur now is under very big psychological pressure,” Omer Kanat, the director of the Uyghur Human Rights Project, a Washington, D.C.–based nonprofit, told me. “We cannot sleep at night.”

[hyperlexichypatia]

If your ideology can only be defended by denying or justifying atrocities, that should be your first clue to reexamine your ideology.

If you can hear and read the testimonies of real people who describe being surveilled, imprisoned, tortured, seeing their families and friends killed, and having their communities destroyed...

... and your ideological alignment requires you to believe either that every last one of them is lying, or that every last one of them must have done something bad enough to "deserve it"... (especially if the "bad thing" they did to "deserve it" was not wanting to be governed by the people committing atrocities upon them)...

Then you should, perhaps, consider whether you have bought into some truly horrifying propaganda.