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Here is a reported account from a local: “For Uyghurs, Xinjiang is like a giant prison. They have to ask permission in order to travel anywhere. Han people can go anywhere they want by just swiping their ID; sometimes we don’t even have to do that.” https://supchina.com/2020/08/05/the-bright-future-of-chinese-life-in-xinjiang/ …

“Uyghur society was not perfect before. Just as in every other society, it had its own problems. But the CCP did not set out to establish the camps to help solve these social issues. They set out to eliminate Uyghurs as a distinct group of people.” https://supchina.com/2019/04/03/uyghur-stories-need-to-be-mainstreamed/ …

An account from a detainee on four boys being tortured: “They were brought to the police station and beaten until they screamed like babies, the skin on their buttocks split open and they couldn’t sit down.” https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-53650246 …

More sources: https://madeinchinajournal.com/2019/10/25/recruiting-loyal-stabilisers-on-the-banality-of-carceral-colonialism-in-xinjiang/ … This is a thorough overview of the situation as it was in 2018. It references the work of several historians, Turkologists, and Sinologists (who are not Zenz). https://supchina.com/2018/08/22/xinjiang-explainer-chinas-reeducation-camps-for-a-million-muslims/ …

Uyghur persecution has now been woven into the fabric of the global political economy. Many of the world’s biggest corporations rely on the forced labor of imprisoned Uyghurs. https://www.aspi.org.au/report/uyghurs-sale …

Uyghur persecution is upheld by the global capitalist system of exploitation that deprives and oppresses workers everywhere for the profit of a small elite. It is beyond the pale for self-professed leftists to dismiss or justify any part of this atrocious system of exploitation.

There is little risk of war. Our political economy will not abide war between the two biggest economies. America does not give a shit about Uyghurs just as it did not give a shit about the innocent people it bombed in Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, Yemen, Somalia, and Pakistan.