News from East Turkistan

[ndrosen]

Reason has an interview with Tursuny Ziyawudun, a Uyghur woman who survived Chinese imprisonment, torture, and sexual assault.

There is also a link to the Uyghur Human Rights Project, which has various articles.

I have certainly not suffered much, but a post of mine on Quora, where I expressed skepticism about the official Chinese Communist Party story, and sympathy for the Uyghurs, has led to a few disparaging comments from Chinese Quorans. I don’t know whether these are spontaneous, or a minor result of official Chinese policy.

Comments

[warriorsavant]

The Chinese gov't encourages Chinese everywhere (domestic as well as overseas, even non-Chinese-citizens of Chinese descent) to "stand up for China," which basically means attack anyone or anything that says anything even slightly negative about China.

[ndrosen]

Right, so someone with a Chinese name telling me I’m all wrong may have been expressing his sincere feelings, or may have been trying to raise his social credit rating a trifle.

[warriorsavant]

Exactly