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Supernova9

(15 posts)
Mon Aug 13, 2018, 02:46 AM Aug 2018

China has prevented 'great tragedy' in Xinjiang, state-run paper says

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Source: Reuters

A U.N. human rights panel said on Friday that it had received many credible reports that 1 million ethnic Uighurs in China are held in what resembles a "massive internment camp that is shrouded in secrecy".

Read more: https://www.google.com/amp/s/mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKBN1KY01B

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China has prevented 'great tragedy' in Xinjiang, state-run paper says (Original Post) Supernova9 Aug 2018 OP
I was in Kashgar last year. dhol82 Aug 2018 #1
Locking - duplicate thread muriel_volestrangler Aug 2018 #2

dhol82

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1. I was in Kashgar last year.
Mon Aug 13, 2018, 06:27 AM
Aug 2018

Incredible tensions between the local population and Beijing. They are watched are controlled in every way.
Our guide and driver had to check in with the police every time they sneezed.
Drove down to the Pakistan border and got checked every way from Sunday.

muriel_volestrangler

(105,836 posts)
2. Locking - duplicate thread
Mon Aug 13, 2018, 10:37 AM
Aug 2018

and an opinion on that - https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142131134 . Please continue discussion there. Thanks.

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