I didn’t dare to say a word fr mother’s day today, not cause I think it’s unfair to see others r celebrating while u’re motherless, but cause it’s incredibly unfair for these mothers who can’t contact with their own children cause they only committed a crime of being an Uyghur.
Chinese govt’s been denying that there are severe abuses in Xinjiang. Well, we’ve reverse engineered an official policing app that shows otherwise. Take a look at new @hrw report: https://t.co/DiQLNaPp83
#China#XiJinping promising “zero tolerance” about anything is a guarantee of #humanrights abuses. Belt and Road forum: Xi Jinping promises transparency to ease concerns https://t.co/TTGIKPLEqp
This is a valuable tweet thread.
Note: refusing to dance can be a manifestation of "extremism", apparently.
And note the dancing #Uighurs in the camps.
Maybe Uighurs need a new hashtag?
#我不要给你跳舞#DancingShouldBeConsensual
Colleague @rob_schmitz says this camp for Uighurs was presented as education for people accused of extremist views. But when he talked with “students,” they said they had no idea what they could ever do to get out.
(1/)Given some of the responses to my posts from our government-led trip in Kashgar, it’s probably a good time to let folks know about my previous reporting on this issue, like here:
https://t.co/Aq6TUN4k4f