Abuses include arbitrary mass detention of an estimated 1 million to 1.8 million people, and a program to ‘cleanse’ ethnic groups of their ‘extremist’ thoughts through re-education and forced labour. This involves multiple forms of involuntary labour at workplaces across the region and even in other parts of China, writes Jewher Ilham, Forced Labor Project Coordinator of the Worker Rights Consortium.

Uyghur forced labour is woven into the fabric of numerous global supply chains. Researchers have linked Uyghur forced labour to the supply chains of at least 17 industries, including apparel, food, information and communications technology, solar, mining, and automotive.

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    this comment section, bluntly speaking, sucks and is just an awful read to a non-involved participant. accordingly, i’ve wiped most of these comments out. we’ll see if that’s enough to deter the unproductive arguing, the whataboutism, and the multitude of attacks on each other, but if it isn’t then this thread will be quickly locked–and if you contribute poorly to it subsequently, i will start levying bans. this is your one warning.

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      I’ve revealed the fascism in your community, you can delete as many comments as you want or you can address that this kind of anti-communist bullshit is going to result in the place turning into a nazi bar. You can’t just nuke out people calling out when something is racist.

      By keeping up this post and removing any comments calling it out, you are demonstrating a passive protection of fascism and an active suppression of those calling out the fascism. Ban me if you want, but you’re the one who is going to have to live with that fact that you are no different to the overt white nationalist terrorist fascists who I deal with on a day to day basis. Racism is systematic. Do not serve it.

      EDIT: Of course you fuckers banned me over this. This is why everyone in the federation hates you guys. You’re a bunch of progressive fascists.

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    a program to ‘cleanse’ ethnic groups of their ‘extremist’ thoughts through re-education and forced labour

    “Arbeit macht frei”

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    Do you think it’s a coincidence that the three major genocides occuring are all against Muslims?

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        Today I learned, didn’t know how much that had flavored up again. I’m sure there’s more I don’t know about too.

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      three major genocides

      Which ones would be those, is there a list?

      I think right now there are well over a dozen genocides going on, and while I haven’t found them ordered by number of victims, neither the Congo nor Ukraine ones are particularly against Muslims, while both seem reasonably big.