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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    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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      11 months ago

      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.