China & Uighurs: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

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Length: 20min 52sec (1252 seconds)

Published: Sun Jul 26 2020

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[u/CRoseCrizzle]

I'm happy John Oliver covered this. Many have hesitated to hold China to account for their egregious behaviors for business reasons. It's good that Oliver called this out and HBO allowed him to.

I've disagreed with Oliver on smaller issues in the past but he's mostly spot on. It's going to be difficult to stop China from continuing with this but maybe solutions will emerge once this issue gets more attention.

[u/TheDorkNite1]

Tutored an exchange student from Xinjiang a few years ago. People knew she was from China but did not understand she was "different". When I figured it out she was able to open up and was quite an interesting person. She was here in the country to get a degree to go back home and help her people.

Ever since the news started coming out of China about what is going on there...I can't help but wonder what has become of her. I want to know, but at the same time I'm not sure I want to.

I really hope that she is safe.

[u/Logiman43]

EDIT: If you would like to share, medium backup

China's crimes against Uyghurs:

1. Some eight hundred thousand to two million Uighurs and other Muslims, including ethnic Kazakhs and Uzbeks, have been detained since April 2017, according to experts and government officials Testimony of Deputy Assistant Secretary Scott Busby on this Another source cites: 1.5 million Uyghurs rounded up in concentration camps. They were legalized at the end of 2018 as “re-education camps”
2. Testimonies of 10k Uyghurs. Database of victims
3. Genocide through forced abortions of Uyghur women and Sexual torture of Uyghur women such as rape & rubbing intimate parts with chili paste
4. Torture and Brainwashing
5. Uyghur women are forced to marry Chinese men. This is How China is fighting the gender gap caused by 1 child policy and also dilute Uyghurs genes
6. A teacher that escaped a Xinjiang concentration camp and found asylum in Sweden details her horrific experiences of rape, torture, and human experiments
7. Vice report on Uyghurs’ children vanishing
8. True Pictures and videos from inside the Concentration camps
9. Uyghurs are forced to install spyware
10. Leaked footage of a large number of blindfolded Uyghurs shackled together
11. Manga depicting the tortures on Uyghurs similar to the comic "Maus"
12. Unwanted Chinese “guests” aka spies monitor Uighur homes 24/7. and Spies are sleeping in the same beds with Uighur Muslim women
13. Slave labor
14. Destruction of old Mosques. Around 5000 mosques were destroyed in 3 months
15. China has also pressured other governments to repatriate Uighurs who have fled China In 2015, for example, Thailand returned more than one hundred Uighurs, and Egypt deported several students in 2017. Chinese Uighurs living abroad fear they will be deported and sent to the camps.
16. More than 350 Uighurs scientists and intellectuals are disappeared
17. China’s security services are pressing members of the country’s Uighur minority abroad to spy on compatriots when abroad, including in Nato and Western countries
18. China destroying Muslim graveyards and replacing them with carparks
19. China leaked documents "No Mercy" and Additional official documents
20. Cultural genocide and organ harvests A uyghur's testimony: "First, children were stopped from learning about the Quran, then from going to mosques. It was followed by bans on ramadan, growing beards, giving Islamic names to your baby, etc. Then our language was attacked – we didn’t get jobs if we didn’t know Mandarin. Our passports were collected, we were told to spy on each other, innocent Uyghur prisoners were killed for organ harvesting" Speaking about organ harvesting -> China is using minorities & political prisoners as free organ farms. Newest report on organ harvesting
21. On the International arena, prioritizing their economic ties and strategic relationships with China, many governments have ignored the human rights abuses. In July 2019, after a group of mostly European countries—and no Muslim-majority countries—signed a letter to the UN human rights chief condemning China’s actions in Xinjiang, more than three dozen states, including Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, signed their own letter praising China’s “remarkable achievements” in human rights and its “counterterrorism” efforts in Xinjiang. Map of countries that criticized or defended China's policy toward Uyghurs.
22. Additionally, China is moving beyond Uyghur and cracking down on its model minority Hui Muslim. 'Afraid We Will Become The Next Xinjiang': China's Hui Muslims Face Crackdown: "The same restrictions that preceded the Xinjiang crackdown on Uighur Muslims are now appearing in Hui-dominated regions. Hui mosques have been forcibly renovated or shuttered, schools demolished, and religious community leaders imprisoned. Hui who have traveled internationally are increasingly detained or sent to reeducation facilities in Xinjiang."
23. Destroying documents about the concentration camps (similar to Nazi program to destroy every information about the holocaust) link

What can YOU do?

• Write to your local Officials, should it be in Europe, in Australia, US, Canada. As a constituent, you have a political voice that you should voice, and there is no better way of expressing your dissatisfaction with the Chinese government’s human rights violations than voicing these issues to your representatives. For US citizens who represents YOU in the Congress
• Amnesty International template email
• Share the report about the CCP coercion of American Uighurs
• Report on 83 American and EU companies using Uyghurs slave labor. Nike, BMW, Gap, GM, etc
• If you are an academic you can sign the Statement by Concerned Scholars
• Donate to the Uyghur Human Rights Project
• As always question all sources. China stating leaked docs are Fake news
• Fight!
• PS: Please don't give me awards. China has a stake in Reddit and a percentage of your award is going into their pockets.

Great comment about the situation in China

John Oliver episode

Disclaimer! This is my own research as of 27th November 2019 with some small updates along the way. You will see a lot of redditors trying to discredit the below numbers - fine, all of us have a voice. But remember I'm just one guy against a propaganda machine. Read the sources, make your own mind, if I made a mistake please write to me and I will correct it. It is though to get hard data but think about what would it take for you to believe? Will it take photographs of dead bodies piled on top of each other? Or satellite footage of chimney stacks spewing the smoky remains of gassed people? Nazi propaganda pre and during WWII against the Holocaust

Edit2: For all you whataboutists, I know all about it. There is a whole subreddit /r/Keep_Track/ tracking Trump's actions. Just because one thing is bad doesn't mean the other is good.

[u/AporiaParadox]

It's obviously fucked up how Western countries like America and Western companies don't take this seriously, but you want to know what I also I find fucked up and wish John Oliver had brought up? The fact that governments in muslim-majority countries like Saudi Arabia and groups like the Organization of Islamic Cooperation also refuse to say or do anything about this because they're too afraid of standing up to China and facing economic consequences, which they clearly care more about than defending fellow muslims. I have seen plenty of individual muslims condemn this, especially those living in the West, but sadly not a peep from muslim government officials or others in positions of power.

[u/Summebride]

The eyelash fake out video was amazing, such a seamless turn.

[u/rpm319]

I remember the Daily Show talking about this years ago. I believe the pun they used for the segment was “Uighur Please”.

[u/Donuil23]

mirror, please.

[u/GermanFIRENUTS]

Someone post this on r/conspiracy, I really wanna see them react to this for the lols.

[u/Kevin-W]

The part with the little girl and her mother breaking down was absolutely heartbreaking....