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OK: Who are the Uyghurs and what's happening to them?
I've heard a lot about these people, but I don't know where to begin. What should I read?
Start with @benmauk's astonishing oral history of the camps, where about 1 in 10 Uyghurs are interned. https://believermag.com/weather-reports-voices-from-xinjiang/
I've heard a lot about these people, but I don't know where to begin. What should I read?
Start with @benmauk's astonishing oral history of the camps, where about 1 in 10 Uyghurs are interned. https://believermag.com/weather-reports-voices-from-xinjiang/
How is the state maintaining its grip on the population?
A staggering surveillance network that has turned Xinjiang into an open air prison.
@dtbyler wrote probably the most penetrating piece on the subject for @guardian in 2019. https://www.theguardian.com/news/2019/apr/11/china-hi-tech-war-on-muslim-minority-xinjiang-uighurs-surveillance-face-recognition
A staggering surveillance network that has turned Xinjiang into an open air prison.
@dtbyler wrote probably the most penetrating piece on the subject for @guardian in 2019. https://www.theguardian.com/news/2019/apr/11/china-hi-tech-war-on-muslim-minority-xinjiang-uighurs-surveillance-face-recognition
So what does that look like in practice? I can't understand how it would work.
The New York times went to Kashgar and put together this interactive video feature. The reporters’ plainclothes minders are highlighted as they cross through the frame. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/04/04/world/asia/xinjiang-china-surveillance-prison.html
The New York times went to Kashgar and put together this interactive video feature. The reporters’ plainclothes minders are highlighted as they cross through the frame. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/04/04/world/asia/xinjiang-china-surveillance-prison.html
So 1 in 10 in people are disappeared. What happens to their children?
Their children are taken to state-run kindergartens. This extraordinary Vice feature was put together at great personal risk, undercover, and features footage of these kindergartens.
Their children are taken to state-run kindergartens. This extraordinary Vice feature was put together at great personal risk, undercover, and features footage of these kindergartens.
Is it possible to just keep your head down and stay out of trouble?
No. The state currently targets every facet of Uyghur identity – but it imprisons model citzens, party members – anyone. I'm amazed we don't talk about this story more: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/29/magazine/uyghur-muslims-china.html
No. The state currently targets every facet of Uyghur identity – but it imprisons model citzens, party members – anyone. I'm amazed we don't talk about this story more: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/29/magazine/uyghur-muslims-china.html
So, I still don't understand the relationship between the
Uyghur and Han populations in Xinjiang
Of course, it's massively complicated and various. But this piece about having dinner in present-day Xinjiang, manages to convey a lot in a short space https://supchina.com/2020/06/03/uyghurs-are-so-bad-chinese-dinner-table-politics-in-xinjiang/
Uyghur and Han populations in Xinjiang
Of course, it's massively complicated and various. But this piece about having dinner in present-day Xinjiang, manages to convey a lot in a short space https://supchina.com/2020/06/03/uyghurs-are-so-bad-chinese-dinner-table-politics-in-xinjiang/
And historically? It's feisty stuff, but this opinionated essay is the liveliest, most condensed approach to several hundred years of history I've read, running through centuries of history up to the present day https://thecritic.co.uk/show-no-mercy-the-tragedy-in-xinjiang/
And that's it. That's my entirely subjective, not at all authoritative beginner's guide to the situation in Xinjiang. These pieces were picked specifically to be engaging, moving and interesting to someone with little or no knowledge of the subject...
... and it comes with my apologies to the many experts, academics, activists and journalists who I haven't featured, but whose work I continue to read and admire.
