• ɔiƚoxɘup@beehaw.orgOP
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    1 month ago

    “if they want to”

    So…

    The Chinese government has claimed that the Xinjiang re-education camps were voluntary educational centers aimed at combating extremism and teaching vocational skills…

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      They actually spread multiple different stories about what these concentration camps were. First they denied their existence outright, then satellite photos and documentation was published that proved these were real, so they claimed they were factories, schools, prisons for terrorists, etc. Many of these lies were published at nearly the exact same time.

      That’s how we know that they are actually concentration camps, that there is actually a genocide going on.