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My question aims to know what kind of procedures did the Chinese government (allegedly) take since 2014 in Xinjiang, and why to begin with. And what can we know about the region in the current time, like can a random tourist go and see with their own eyes the truth, and maybe film it ?

There are Youtube videos and a Wikipedia page "documenting" human rights infringements, while China and the Marxist forums deny anything harmful. Now that almost nobody is bringing it up, I want to know what was legitimately documented. Investigating the origins and later developments of the case on my own would be so hard.

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[โ€“] Naas@lemmy.world -2 points 1 week ago

I have been living in Chengdu which is in a way the door the geopolitical tibet. For some reason i used to be close to someone from the Tibetan spiritual leader AND close to one of the biggest Chinese real estate owner there. What surprised me most is that we got all wrong in the west about what is ok and not ok. The coward abandon of the west regarding tibet in fact did benefit the people, that is true. The political leaders stepped down and now they can not have high power, but it's okay since the position of powerthey have are the one that can make the most money. their childs are send in America and Europe for education and are given favorable seat in chinese university, which make the Chinese people actually quite angry. As a results i would say Tibetan like to be under chinese occupation, but they also know it's a genocide as they will not he able to live there. I got a ex girlfriend who were from xingjiang area and she explained me how she took some dead body identity to be able to travel and have a passport issued, how they are harassed, at a technological level, say that bank doesn't work well, plane ticket have trouble, police innocently are where they go, there is a clear racism from han to xingjiang people, considered nervous and irrational. I also have heard of the camp, but that is not to me to speak as honestly i don't know more than what the media said and some very angry son of a father who though he was in France in 1789.