There are so many errors in this article in the first few paragraphs that I have trouble believing any of it, even if the story itself is believable from what I know of Chinese religious oppression.
First, Xinjiang is in the west, not east. Second, Uyghurs in China do not speak Turkish. They speak Uighur, a Turkic language, but its orthography is Arabic and forced Chinese. It looks nothing like Turkish, which uses a modified Latin script.
Also there are about 10m Uyghurs as of 2010, not 8m.
Turkish was written with an Arabic-based alphabet until 1920s. The move to Latin alphabet for Turkic languages is new, and not yet universal. For example, Azerbaijani, the closest Turkic language to Turkish (so much that Turkish and Azerbaijani are mutually comprehensible) is written in Latin alphabet in the Republic of Azerbaijan but in Arabic alphabet in Iran.
Yep! Orthography is hugely political for Central Asian languages, so I am really disappointed that this article would make such a glaring mistake, among others. It does not seem very well researched.
They mean: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Turkestan and article states : "Uighur Muslims are a Turkish-speaking minority of eight million in the northwestern Xinjiang region". For language you are correct but from my point of view it is nitpicking, same like 10m and 8m. Important parts are, they do not speak same language as Chinese and in country of China group in up to ten millions is still minority which can be oppressed by central government. For comparison Sweden or Portugal is around 10m people, which gives me nice point of refenece.
That article is several months old and I've never heard of it on mainstream media.
This disgusts me. It's like those people are being dehumanized like the Jews. Maybe this is part of a wider conspiracy so when another another oil, resource grabbing led war is started. People will say and do nothing to stop it because people have sub-consciously brainwashed.
There is a lot of other stuff going on that is completely unreported. I would recommend talking to Uyghurs directly.
Clearly China is trying to solidify their geographical borders by turning majority ethnic groups in those given regions in to minority groups of ever decreasing influence. This is straight out of a very old playbook for colonization. That they are able to so opening continue doing this in 2017 with so little global acknowledgement is only partially surprising.
That's utter rubbish. In fact, due to the lack of birth control policy over the ethnic minorities, the demographic structure in Xinjiang is changing drastically and the 0~6 years old Han population is less than 10% percent compared to 40% of the adult population. Colonization your ass.
The Han people are furious because the CCP uses Han as a tool to maintain its rule over China but keeps sacrificing the future of Han.
Given the CCP's pro-Hui policy, many of Han people fear that some day China will become an Islamic country like Iran or Malaysia.
When you talk to Uyghurs, don't forget to ask their opinions about the Hui Muslim and Erdogan's Neo-Ottomanism.
I feel sick about the CCP's cruelty but I feel absurd when you blame the ethnic majority for colonization.
Because you are a bigot and believe a half assed report in a half assed paper which was merely sourcing another half assed source aka fake news as the Left/Right calls it.
And the mainstream media actually investigates and reports on issues using facts?
There are obviously serious issues in Xinjiang. But the fantastical stories don't really help matters. The lack of serious reporting on what is really happening is a cause for concern
But even the original article aka spyware is quoting twitter as a source. I'd like a proper translation and confirmation of the sources before believing it. I'd hope the mainstream media is looking into the spyware issue since it's looks like there might be a story there but it's to hard to tell the real story atm.
