870: Religious persecution is a precursor to genocide. @nuryturkel
Image: In Xinjiang under the Chinese Communist Party: “Internment (https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Internment) camps, indoctrination camps, re-education camps”— all integrated with slave-labor camps. Nury Turkel, @nuryturkel, co-founder of the Uyghur Human Rights Project and a commissioner of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom; and Gordon Chang, Daily Beast, in re: ury Turkel, @nuryturkel, co-founder of the Uyghur Human Rights Project and a commissioner of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom; and Gordon Chang, Daily Beast, in re: Blood cotton, like blood diamonds, but people worked to death in cotton fields of Central Asia. The crime of the Uyghur people of East Turkestan, under the boot of the CCP dictatorship. Concentration camps, abductions, persecutions—and the cotton fields of Xinjiang. See: Wall Street Journal article. If consumers and mills worldwide refuse to buy blood cotton, will that stop the crime? I grew up in Kashgar. What’s disturbing is that the American business community ignores it. Chopping off women’s hair, making PPE under forced-labor conditions. China purposely targets [victims] based on religion. The ICC (Intl Criminal Court) has refused to take up a case on China’s crimes against humanity on grounds that China isn't a signatory; last year, they took a case against Burma, which also is not a signatory. Huge disappointment among Uyghurs. Business leaders feign ignorance. The UN hasn't uttered a syllable on this. Would China use cash to suppress an investigation? Definitely yes. Persuasion, corruption, intimidation. China puts its best dips on human rights cases because they know they’re so vulnerable. The new US administration: I'd like to be an optimist, and this also include US national security interests. China and the global supply chains. Religious persecution is a precursor to genocide.