#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.

[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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[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.

[thescaredsapphic]

Resource list for countries in need

[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

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Ways to help Ukraine

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[m4ggotm0ld]

More reasons to not give your money to MiHoyo other than them being r@cist, because apparently thats not enough!!

in 2022, they joined the Chinese c0mmunist party, and that means some of the money they make goes to fund the g3nocide and intense labor of Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang.

[sillycourtjester]

I made a zine

Reblogs > likes

[thatwierdquietkidthatdraws]

I am so done. They said never again after the holocaust.

But LOOK at what's happening to Muslims in china. Being put in concentration camps and being forced to drink alcohol, eat pork etc.

LOOK at CONGO. Women and children in Congo are being abused, raped, enslaved. THERE ARE CHILDREN BEING SOLD IN BAGS AND FORCED TO DO CHILD LABOR.

LOOK at UKRAINE. People are LOSING their homes, family, EVERYTHING!

LOOK at Sudan. Children, PEOPLE are going into hunger. Women in Sudan don't have proper period products.

LOOK at Palestine. Women and children are being raped. Killed. Women don't HAVE any RESOURCES to give proper birth or something for their period. All in the name of Israel's pathetic excuse of 'self defense' after DESTROYING people's HOMES. DESTROYING the LAST HOSPITAL IN GAZA. Or attacking Libanon.

LOOK at AFGHANISTAN. WOMEN DON'T HAVE THE RIGHT TO RAISE THEIR VOICE IN PUBLIC, TAKE OFF THEIR HEAD COVERINGS, LOOK ANOTHER MAN IN THE EYE OR EVEN DO NORMAL HOUSEHOLD TASKS. ANIMALS. LITERAL ANIMALS HAVE MORE RIGHTS IN SYRIA THAN WOMEN.

I'm DONE. People are ignoring the situation when it's right Infront of your eyes. Boycott, donate, reblog. Do whatever you can! No one's free until everyone is! Free Palestine, Congo, Sudan, Lebanon, Syrian women, Muslims in China and Ukraine!

(these are a few pins I've found. I will give credit when I find the owners. But for now credit to all the OG owners of these pins!)

[ana-bananya]

SIGN & SHARE: Protect Uyghur Refugees in Thailand

Via freeuyghurnow on ig

Reminder: donating on change.org does not give any money to the campaign. The money is used to promote the petition and get it in front of more people. The funds go towards promotion, not to the owner of the campaign. If you'd like to donate directly to the Uyghur community, here are some places you can give to:

Tarim Network: A registered charity based in the UK with a goal to unite, inspire and advance the Uyghur and related youth community around the world.

Darman Foundation: A non-profit organization based in Canada providing refugee and immigrant support, humanitarian crises relief, and cultural and educational activities.

Kawsar's UK Master's journey: Kawsar is a Uyghur student and human rights activist who helped create the Uyghur Genocide Museum. She has the opportunity to pursue an MA in International Relations at the University of Sussex but needs help to cover her tuition.

Uyghur Human Rights Project: promotes the rights of the Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslim peoples in East Turkestan through research-based advocacy. UHRP submits reports and policy recommendations to governments and multilateral bodies like the UN and EU to defend Uyghurs’ civil, political, social, cultural, and economic rights

All of the above campagins have been previously shared by members of the community, so they are well trusted!

[odinsblog]

On Thursday, the human rights group Dui Hua Foundation confirmed that Chinese authorities have handed down a life sentence on the internationally renowned Uyghur ethnographer Rahile Dawut. This outrageous sentence follows Dawut’s six years of arbitrary detention, punctuated only by a secret trial in December 2018 in which the court found her guilty on baseless charges of “endangering state security.”

The news comes on the anniversary of another Uyghur scholar, the economist Ilham Tohti, being sentenced to life imprisonment in 2014. Meanwhile, the Uyghur Human Rights Project has documented that Chinese authorities have forcibly disappeared more than 500 Uyghur intellectuals as of December 2021.

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[al-kol-eleh]

Hillel Neuer

[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.”

[theredpharaoah]

I haven’t forgotten about the Congo, Sudan, Haiti, Tigray, or the Uyghur Muslims either! If there’s any resources for these people or anyone else I’m missing please send them to me.

[lambotel]

never, EVER, forget uyghur muslims. always keep them in your prayers. and lets not fucking forget how china still has concentration camps for them (mentally and physically torturing them, forcing them to do inhumane things to themselves and one another, spitting on / kicking / burning the quran etc and much more horrible things).

it upsets me that people only talk about them for a short amount of time and then forget anything ever happened as if these concentration camps dont exist to this day.

please stop treating these horrific events as little trends to gain following/likes on your profile.. just to neglect them when you've gotten the attention you clearly desperately wanted.