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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These are empty words. What the Chinese Communist Party is doing here amounts to genocide.
Anything’s possible when you make shit up
The only people accusing China of genocide are Western genocidaires. The Arab League says there’s no genocide. Uyghur religious leaders in Xinjiang say there’s no genocide. There are no protests on the street in Xinjiang saying there’s a genocide (there are protests in Xinjiang, though, mostly involving worker safety).
There are twice as many mosques in Xinjiang than in the US, UK, France, and Germany combined.
The population of Xinjiang continues to increase as it has for many many years.
It’s a very strange genocide, this genocide you claim. It doesn’t look like American genocide of indigenous people. It doesn’t look like Israeli genocide of Palestinians. It doesn’t cause mass death. It doesn’t erase language or religion. It doesn’t strip the Uyghurs of their governance. It doesn’t separate their children from their families.
And yet, you, the most prolific sinophobic propagandist I see in the lemnyverse, continue to say there’s a genocide.
You’re going to have to produce some real evidence. And not a DC-based propaganda outlet that just happens to always side with the official US narrative.