Nuria Zyden came to Ireland in 2009, became a naturalised Irish citizen and has three children who were born in the Republic.
A Uyghur, she grew up in Xinjiang, a majority Muslim province where locals are regarded with extreme suspicion by the Chinese Government.
“As a Uyghur person, growing up we were seen as politically disloyal and culturally disadvantaged,” Ms Zyden told Newstalk Breakfast.
“The State media frequently portrayed Uyghurs as extremists and discrimination in jobs and education left us with limited opportunities.
“After 9/11, the Chinese Government rebranded its repressions as a war on terror, using it as a pretext to expand mass surveillance.”
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Determined to keep her culture alive and speak out against Beijing’s oppression of her people, she helped found the Irish Uyghur Culture Association in 2014.
Like many Uyghurs living outside of China, she soon found that her advocacy had not gone unnoticed by Chinese officials.
“My activism has become a target [with] phone calls from the Chinese Government and all different types of harassment,” she said.
Most disturbingly, she feels they are blackmailing her elderly mother.
“My gentle, 74-year-old mother told me to not come home,” Ms Zyden said.
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“I don’t know what is really happening to her but I guess she has been questioned and probably she was in detention.
“I’m not really sure; she begged me, do not forget about the Chinese Communist Party raising us and wherever we go, we should appreciate [them].”
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Can you provide any evidence for your claim? It’s clearly wrong, as there has been strong evidence for the suppression of Uyghurs, Tibetans, and other minorities by the Chinese government for a very long time, from many independent sources.
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Well the word of the woman in the linked OP article for one. Are you saying she is lying about her first hand experiences? What do you think is her motivation to do so?
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Firsthand eyewitness accounts are by definition not hearsay.
You can claim she is lying if you want. But you can’t call it hearsay.
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@mathemachristian@lemm.ee
Where did you see these videos?
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The little red book is a propaganda tool where everything is censored unless it completely aligns with the Chinese Communist Party’s narratives.
You are questioning dozens of sources here from the EU, UK, US, NZ, and I don’t know how many other countries from around the globe, stories told by eye witnesses who could escape the concentration in China, scholars, rights activists, researchers, investigative journalists - only to then provide a single source which is the CCP.
Stay away from these sources and get a life.
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@mathemachristian@lemm.ee
You are just watching staged videos that are trading truth for views as part of a genocidal policy spreading a propaganda version of life for Uyghurs.
Edit to add one of your alt accounts: @mathemachristian@hexbear.net
Here is another tiny sample of a few dozens ‘non-RFA’ sources:
https://xinjiang.sppga.ubc.ca/teaching/documentaries
As you appear to like watching videos: https://www.arte.tv/en/videos/087898-000-A/arte-reportage
Maybe you can manage to watch these two:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14405334
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0925260
https://sopuli.xyz/c/China
This is supposed to be the concrete evidence? It appears to be more of a collection of propaganda.
@Subdivide6857@midwest.social
Nah, the Chinese propaganda is elsewhere. The articles provided at https://sopuli.xyz/c/China are the result of sophisticated, independent, and reliable investigations.
By who? Why can you speak to the veracity of the articles personally?
I read them.
If you want to get a broader summary of the situation, the Campaign for Uyghurs’ website may be helpful. Canada’s House of Commons provides also good insights as well as the International Bar Association and Holocaust Memorial Museum in the US.
“Break Their Lineage, Break Their Roots”, is a report by Human Right Watch from 2021, detailing China’s crimes against humanity targeting Uyghurs and other Turkic muslims.
It comes from all over. You’ll easily find much more.
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You linked a bunch of american propaganda, you realize that right?
Yeaaaah…
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That’s the kind of approach a lemmygrab ml troll would use
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Ask for evidence constantly, deny it if provided and trash the source. Where is your source? Thats the playbook.
Prove me wrong though.