All signs point to the hysteria surrounding supposed Uighur genocide being another round of fake news promoted by western intelligence agencies and spread uncritically by the mainstream media. See:
- NY Times' pseudo-expert accusing China of genocide worked for far-right cult Falun Gong's publicity arm | The Grayzone
- MoA - Why Do These Uighur Witnesses' Stories Constantly Change?
It seems that Cold War forces rule us as depicted in 1984.
Yes, I can understand that is a lot to read. Here's an executive summary:
The New York Times published, on January 8, a factually challenged op-ed accusing China of committing “genocide” against its Uighur minority. The article sourced its spurious accusations to a right-wing operative who insists his research is part of a divine “mission” against Beijing that is “led by God.” Pang’s op-ed ran just days before the Trump administration formally accused Beijing of genocide.
Before the US initiated its new Cold War with China, Western corporate media outlets openly acknowledged that China faced a major national security threat in Xinjiang in the form of a Wahhabist separatist movement determined to destabilize the entire region and ultimately break away. There were terrorist attacks and many people were killed. China announced in 2014 that they established deradicalization centers in Xinjiang to deal with the issue..
Reports of Chinese atrocities including mass rape and genocide have been found to be inconsistent and unreliable, sourced to Uighur militants working with Al Qaeda in Syria, CIA related groups seeking to disrupt Chinses influence in the Muslim nations of Central Asia, fanatical anti-Chinese-government groups, and anti-Chinese western Christians. A far-right German academic, Adrian Zenz, is the source for practically every Western media report alleging “genocide” and enormous concentration camps in Xinjiang. Zenz has also found time to volunteer his belief that God’s apocalyptic Rapture will soon come, and Jews who refuse to convert to Christianity will, in his words, be “wiped out” and shoved in a “fiery furnace”.
The term “concentration camp” in Western anti-China propaganda is clearly meant to invoke the mass extermination that took place in Nazi death camps. The highly suspect research from anti-China activists like Adrian Zenz have absurdly exaggerated the number of people who have passed through these re-education centers. There is significant evidence that the reeducation centers have been effective in dealing with the economic problems that were facing the Uighurs. The ethnic Uighur population has increased greatly and the economy has improved, with more Uighur taking jobs that were formerly taken by Han immigrants.
The western press has a history of consistently exaggerating the evils taking place in nations that we regard as unfriendly. The Uighur genocide nad mass rape hysteria seems to be yet another case of such misinformation.
One of the articles is from an independent media outlet run by Max Blumenthal. The other is indeed by a blogger, albeit a full time professional. I see these outlets as performing the service of vetting various mainstream media outlets such as the New York Times. The 2 articles included about 50 links, according to my count. If you take a couple of hours to read the articles and to click through on the links, and to click through the links in the linked articles and do some independent fact checking as I did, you can find out a lot more about the issues than is possible from reading a single article. I don't think it was possible to do this 20 years ago, but today I find that I can often understand complex issues via the wealth of information that is available on the Internet.
Of course, the sources I trust could be wrong and I'm always looking to find more reliable sources.
Anyway, thanks for the response. As the WaPo says, "Democracy dies in darkness".
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