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- world@quokk.au
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- world@quokk.au
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/53062611
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Starting around March 27, Uyghur Times reviewed multiple videos from Urumqi and Kashgar showing city management workers removing Uyghur-language signs from shops, restaurants, supermarkets, and even private businesses. In many cases, only Chinese-language signage was left behind.
One widely circulated video on the Chinese version of TikTok shows the demolition of Uyghur-style architectural elements at a major transportation hub in Urumqi, known as Uchtash Qatnash Bikiti (also referred to as Sandongbi Transportation Station).
In the footage, a Uyghur man standing in front of the site expresses deep sorrow:
“Today we are witnessing the destruction of one of the most iconic cultural landmarks in Urumqi. It held our memories. For many of us, our journeys began here and ended here. Now, it is gone.”
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Other videos show workers dismantling Uyghur-language signage across urban areas. One sign reads “ئۆي مۈلۈكچىلىك، ئىلىم سېتىم,” meaning “Real estate Sales & Transactions.” Another removed sign identifies a construction materials supplier. In the clip, a bystander can be heard lamenting:
“It is not over. One day, it will come back.”
Observers say the campaign reflects a broader effort to eliminate visible markers of Uyghur cultural and linguistic identity under the framework of the new law.
When the law was passed, experts warned that it would legitimize cultural destruction and forced assimilation. Uyghur activists also condemned the law.
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So just to be clear you’re pro reeducation camp and you believe China’s claims about them at face value?
I am against creating terrorist groups, particularly against twisting religious doctrine to create terrorist groups, arming them, training them, and directing them towards innocent civilians. So far, China seems to have the most success least violent response to a terrorist threat. They have targeted the specific social mechanisms that are used to create in-group solidarity and worked to undermine the lies and manipulation that keeps people locked in extremist organizations and drives them to acts of violence. They have reduced violent terrorist attacks on civilians in Xinjiang by a huge percentage without having to resort to US tactics of anti-terrorism like bombing weddings and funerals.
If that means they used a re-education program to do it, then heck yeah I support that. Certainly beats wanton mass murder. It would be great if we could learn what the curriculum is and how they deradicalized the movement. That would be really valuable to the whole world.
Also, it’s historically inline with how the PLA won the civil war. There were entire divisions of the PLA with a casually rate of well over 100% because they were able to convince their KMT POWs that not only was the PLA the good guys but that the KMT had thoroughly lied to them and manipulated them. The communists in China have a good track record of this. I would trust them when they say that they are successfully deradicalizing the East Turkestan separatists through predominantly non-violent means