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At one point, I was tailed by a convoy of a dozen cars, an eerie procession through the silent streets of Aksu at 4 in the morning.

Stringent posted:

i thought this was the funniest line in the article

Mirello posted:

lol at the logic "if im being watched they cant tell the truth "I'm being watched all the time" why even go on the trip dipshit? its amazing how much credulousness they give to "survivors" who change their story every month vs actual people on the street. they literally go to an imam school! even I didn't know china had those!

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Behind him, a drunk Uyghur man was yelling. Alcohol is forbidden for practicing Muslims, especially in the holy month of Ramadan.

“I’ve been drinking alcohol, I’m a little drunk, but that’s no problem. We can drink as we want now!” he shouted. “We can do what we want! Things are great now!”

At a nearby store, I notice liquor bottles lining the shelves. In another town, my colleague and I encounter a drunk Uyghur man, passed out by a trash bin in broad daylight. Though many Uyghurs in big cities like Urumqi have long indulged in drinking, such sights were once unimaginable in the pious rural areas of southern Xinjiang.

On a government sponsored tour, officials took us to meet Mamatjan Ahat, a truck driver, who declared he was back to drinking and smoking because he had recanted religion and extremism after a stint at one of Xinjiang’s infamous “training centers”.

“It made me more open-minded,” Ahat told reporters, as officials listened in.

Xinjiang officials say they aren’t forcing atheism on the Uyghurs, but rather defending freedom of belief against creeping extremism. “Not all Uyghurs are Muslim,” is a common refrain.

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Since the Communist Party took control of Xinjiang in 1949,

fart simpson posted:

always cool to see sentences like this:

because they leave out who the communist party took control from (it was the KMT). its such a cynical example of lying by omission

Grapplejack posted:

Xinjiang was actually almost a second Mongolia. The leadership of the area was heavily pro-soviet but they tried to play both sides and Stalin abandoned him to the kmt, leading to his ouster and the eventual takeover by the PRC

Mirello posted:

lol at the logic "if im being watched they cant tell the truth "I'm being watched all the time" why even go on the trip dipshit? its amazing how much credulousness they give to "survivors" who change their story every month vs actual people on the street. they literally go to an imam school! even I didn't know china had those!

gradenko_2000 posted:

BULBASAUR posted:

some poster once tried the same thing regarding the study that showed eastern european people preferred life under the USSR vs what they got in 90s and 00s

Red and Black posted:

It's 4am and 12 Aksu police officers are in their cars single file, tailing a dipshit who works for the AP. Their eyes narrowed, watching for signs of western treachery. It's just another day on the job.

Red and Black posted:

It's 4am and 12 Aksu police officers are in their cars single file, tailing a dipshit who works for the AP. Their eyes narrowed, watching for signs of western treachery. It's just another day on the job.

Maximo Roboto posted:

Annam was part of China for a millennium, it's time to get it back tbh

gradenko_2000 posted:

gowb posted:

look up the holy pig festival…taiwan is stained in the blood of ridiculously fat swine

Atrocious Joe posted:

We need to take another look at this while Vietnam thing. Seems pretty modern for it to go so far south. Does Cambodia deserve to have the land back?

Atrocious Joe posted:

We need to take another look at this while Vietnam thing. Seems pretty modern for it to go so far south. Does Cambodia deserve to have the land back?

Jose posted:

Atrocious Joe posted:

We need to take another look at this while Vietnam thing. Seems pretty modern for it to go so far south. Does Cambodia deserve to have the land back?

PawParole posted:

Have what back? What do the Cham have to do with Cambodia?

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Apr 21, 2019
UNPO, HIHR and KKF to hold Second Symposium on the Khmer-Krom's Right to Self-Determination
On Saturday 1 June 2019, the Khmers Kampuchea-Krom Federation (KKF), the Hawaii Institute for Human Rights (HIHR) and the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO) will hold their Second Symposium on the Khmer-Krom’s Right to Self-Determination. The event, to take place at the Peace Palace in the Hague, the Netherlands, from 9:00 to 17:00, will commemorate the forced merger of Cochinchina with Annam and Tonkin to form the State of Vietnam, without the Khmer-Krom’s consent.

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UNPO was founded at the end of the Cold War when separatist movements sprang up around the world but now it has become a means of the US to apply its geopolitical strategists, as well as to tackle China.

According to William Engdahl, an American geopolitical scientist, in his book Armageddon: The Secret Agenda of Washington's New Cold War, UNPO was a dream organization for American geopolitical strategists. It was founded amid the fall of the Soviet Union, a year when much of Eurasia was in political and economic turmoil.

UNPO was first organized by "Xinjiang independence" secessionist Erkin Alptekin and the 14th Dalai Lama. Among the members of UNPO, there are "Taiwan independence," "Tibet independence," "Inner Mongolia independence," and "Xinjiang independence" secessionist forces concerning China.

Erkin was working for Radio Free Europe in the US when UNPO was founded, and that year he founded the secessionist organization "World Uyghur Congress."(WUC)

UNPO is hostile to China, especially over Xinjiang. In April 2008, the National Endowment for Democracy, funded by the US Congress, and UNPO organized a leadership workshop for WUC. In May 2009, UNPO co-hosted with NED the so-called Human Rights Conference on the theme "East Turkestan." In 2013, UNPO and the European Parliament jointly organized a seminar to call the world's attention to the so-called Uygur issue.

ModernMajorGeneral posted:

Love how to the Western media random drunk guys are symbols of modern liberal progress in any Muslim state aligned with the West but communist perversions of noble Islamic purity in China.