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demmiblue

(36,834 posts)
Fri Jul 17, 2020, 07:37 AM Jul 2020

Someone just leaked drone footage of CCP authorities loading Uyghurs onto trains...

Last edited Fri Jul 17, 2020, 08:57 AM - Edit history (1)

EDIT: DUer al bupp has brought it to my attention that the video was taken last year.

Someone just leaked drone footage of CCP authorities loading Uyghurs onto trains, presumably to transport them to reeducation camps.

Look familar?



13 tonnes of hair taken from China’s Uyghur Muslims has ‘Nazi resonance’



It follows a huge US Customs seizure of human hair products believed to have been taken from Muslim Uyghurs, more than a million of whom have been detained in vast indoctrination camps in China’s western Xinjiang province.

US Customs and Border Protection assistant commissioner Brenda Smith said the production of the weaves and other hair products found onboard the ship “constitutes a very serious human rights violation”.

The news, together with the implication that hair is being forcibly removed from thousands of prisoners then sold, has horrified UK Jewish groups – including the Board of Deputies, Rene Cassin and the Jewish Council for Racial Equality – with some citing its “chilling and obvious resonances” with the Holocaust.

Alistair Carmichael MP, vice-chair (human rights) of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on China, said states around the world “need to hold the Chinese Government to account for their brutal suppression of the Uyghurs”, which is understood to be on an industrial scale, comprising 1,200 camps.

“It is never a good idea to compare any contemporary incident to the Holocaust,” said Carmichael. “My fundamental rule is that nothing can be compared to the Holocaust. I know, however, that this report has many distressing echoes for those who know the history of that most dreadful episode.

“Events in Srebrenica and Rwanda in recent decades should teach us that genocide can still happen and that no one is safe unless everyone guards against it.”

https://jewishnews.timesofisrael.com/13-tonnes-of-hair-taken-from-chinas-uyghur-muslims-has-nazi-resonance/
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Someone just leaked drone footage of CCP authorities loading Uyghurs onto trains... (Original Post) demmiblue Jul 2020 OP
Horrifying! Baitball Blogger Jul 2020 #1
The world reaction to this staggers me. WhiskeyGrinder Jul 2020 #2
That video! OMG! eom LittleGirl Jul 2020 #3
OMG, this is horrifying! cate94 Jul 2020 #4
A feature, not a bug, in Trump's eyes, according to Bolton's book. bullwinkle428 Jul 2020 #5
Not that it makes it any better, but it's a year old... al bupp Jul 2020 #6
Thank you for pointing that out. demmiblue Jul 2020 #8
This and Hong Kong moondust Jul 2020 #7
Boycotting Huawei now Duppers Jul 2020 #9
And some places are banning it. moondust Jul 2020 #12
... ck4829 Jul 2020 #10
I wouldn't be surprised if Ivanka is awarded sole marketing rights to the hair in the US. George II Jul 2020 #11

al bupp

(2,170 posts)
6. Not that it makes it any better, but it's a year old...
Fri Jul 17, 2020, 08:40 AM
Jul 2020

CHINA / UIGHUR - 09/25/2019
Drone video shows blindfolded, handcuffed prisoners in China's Xinjiang Uyghur region

https://observers.france24.com/en/20190925-drone-video-shows-mass-displacement-prisoners-china-xinjiang-uyghur-region

And here's a report from March on Uyghurs being sold into slavery:

https://www.aspi.org.au/report/uyghurs-sale

demmiblue

(36,834 posts)
8. Thank you for pointing that out.
Fri Jul 17, 2020, 08:54 AM
Jul 2020

Also, thank you for the link... I don't have time to thoroughly read it right now, but I have opened a tab for later reading.

moondust

(19,967 posts)
12. And some places are banning it.
Fri Jul 17, 2020, 11:40 AM
Jul 2020

According to the article. Needs to be a nationwide ban IMO.

Some companies are starting to pull the plug:


Mid-June 2020, IBM said it will no longer offer facial recognition technology and stop its research and development activities, and Microsoft pulled its face recognition solutions from law enforcement agencies in the United States.

In a blog post published on 10 June, Amazon is putting a moratorium of one year on the use of its technology by police. The e-commerce giant said it’s giving time for federal laws to be initiated and protect human rights and civil liberties in this domain.

https://www.thalesgroup.com/en/markets/digital-identity-and-security/government/biometrics/facial-recognition
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