US politician and Western MSM started new round of campaign accusing China using millions of #Uyghur slaves to work on #Xinjiang cotton "plantations". Reports source none other than Adrian Zenz, originator of million Uyghurs in concentration camp story. A thread debunking Zenz
Adrian Zenz, @VoCommunism “researcher” came out w new report purportedly w evidence of #Uyghur slave labor used to produce cotton in #Xinjiang.
‘Evidence’ 1: because Uyghur majority region in Southern Xinjiang employ local labor!!!
‘Evidence’ 1: because Uyghur majority region in Southern Xinjiang employ local labor!!!
Zenz claims China replacing Han migrant labor in #Xinjiang with local #Uyghur in order to meet its local poverty alleviation program MUST mean Uyghurs are slaves!!!
I am old enough to remember 2014 Reuters report quoting @hrw @bequelin that Han migrant cotton pickers take jobs away frm local #Uyghur, deserve to be bombed at Urumqi train station.
Immediately after April 30th 2014 bombing by Al Qaeda affiliate Turkestan Islamic Party at Urumqi train station that targeted seasonal Han migrant workers coming to #Xinjiang to pick cotton, then @HRW’s @bequelin said the bombing was “powerful symbol” of anti-colonial struggle
By Zenz’s own admission, PRC gov realized that cotton picking jobs were going to Han migrant workers rather than local #Uyghurs and took measure to remedy that. He also provided no evidence for his insinuations internment tied to cotton picking...