cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/54505307

The East Turkistan Government in Exile (ETGE) condemns the Chinese government’s ongoing genocide and colonial occupation of East Turkistan, which Beijing calls “Xinjiang,” meaning “New Territory,” and its coordinated effort to launder these crimes through staged trade forums and complicit international media. Now in its thirteenth year, this genocide is not receding; the Party’s own leadership has just declared its permanence.

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This week’s International Conference for Trans-Altai Subregional Cooperation, held in occupied East Turkistan, does not stand alone. Days earlier, Wang Huning, the Chinese Communist Party’s chief ideologue and fourth-ranking official, toured East Turkistan and ordered “regular counterterrorist efforts,” forced assimilation as the “central task,” and intensified industrial exploitation, with particular emphasis on southern East Turkistan. The forum is the marketing arm of the doctrine the CCP set: the same colonial extraction, now sold to foreign delegations as “development.”

That doctrine is not new. In top-secret CCP Central Committee Document No. 7 of 1996, the Politburo Standing Committee designated the Uyghur and other Turkic peoples’ faith and identity as the principal threat to be eliminated. The same document ordered the state to develop southern East Turkistan, expand the paramilitary Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, and push cotton and petroleum production, the very industries on display at this forum. In the Party’s own classified words, development and repression are one and the same.

The ETGE rejects the claim, now circulating in international coverage, that mass detention was a “response to attacks.” Satellite analysis documents that construction of hundreds of detention facilities began as early as 2009, with the majority built between 2010 and early 2014, before China launched its “Strike Hard Against Violent Terrorism” campaign in May 2014. The apparatus of mass detention was built before the events invoked to justify it. The pretext was manufactured to fit a genocidal policy already in motion.

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cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/40995992

Sucks that you had to be a Trump supporting racist, Mr. Scott Adams.

And my wife was there and she’s a goddamn cutie too.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/54504338

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In our human rights work on China’s black jails, it has been extremely difficult to obtain photos or video of the facilities. These are secret places. No phones, no lawyer, no journalists, no family are allowed inside. Even the locations are kept hidden—typically a bag is placed over a prisoner’s head when they are moved in or out.

So far, we have relied on first person testimony to understand what these black jails are like.

But then we searched Douyin, China’s Tiktok (both developed by Beijing-based ByteDance) and we found something very surprising.

B2B companies that make equipment for China’s security services are advertising their suicide-proofed apparatus on the platform. For the first time, we can see up close what a brand-new Liuzhi cell probably looks like. We searched for the terms “留置” (Liuzhi, one of CCP’s two types of secret jail) and words related to suicide-proofing, such as”软包墙面” (ruanbao qiangmian, padded walls).

What we saw was just as horrifying as we’ve been told.

Welcome to the insane asylum

We found videos by three companies on Douyin showcasing their suicide-padded furniture and fittings, such as tables, chairs and walls, marketed specifically for Liuzhi.

The images produce an unsettling sense of being in an insane asylum. The scripts are chilling; they seem to take delight in point out the capacity for torture their products offer.

And, ironically, they do a much better job of describing Liuzhi than we ever could.

The basic facts of inhumane treatment we have heard about are confirmed in the videos:

• the isolation,
• the 24-hour surveillance by two guards,
• the always on lights, and,
• the need to ask for permission for everything, even the slightest movement.

The videos’ voiceovers describe how:

• Liuzhi cells are “heavy with the suffocating air of confinement,” the prisoner feels “forgotten by the world”
• Their padded furniture and walls prevent “accidental injuries during interrogation sessions,” hinting at physical torture
• Prisoners’ screams are simply swallowed up by the room
• One video boasts: “Not many people can survive a place like this without losing it.”

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What black jails does China run?

In recent years, China has legalized two black jail systems: (1) Liuzhi or retention in custody, which is focused on CCP members and state workers, and (2) Residential Surveillance at a Designated Location (RSDL) for everyone else (many human rights activists and rights lawyers are locked up here).

Prisoners are kept for months or more, in complete isolation, subjected to extended interrogations and watched 24-hours by two guards. Any windows are blacked out. It’s constant, unending strip lighting. The psychological torture these conditions produce drive some to try to kill themselves. The authorities know this—it’s intentional to coerce a confession—so they suicide-proof the cells.

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(TikTok screenshot)

I recently found this boxed copy of Linux for Windows from 2001. But what is it?!

cross-posted from: https://jlai.lu/post/38880671

SOUTH AMERICAN ELECTIONS

[two different people are being portrayed side by side]

Gabriela Rosa Sympatica
Elementary school teacher
Beloved by her community
Wants to improve lives
[portrait of a smiling woman in overalls]

Diego Hitlerio de la Junta
Son of a previous dictator
Went to jail for corruption
Wants to sterilize natives
[portrait of a frowning nasty looking character in military gear]

Temporary results (98% ballots counted):
[Gabriela] 49.9999%
[Diego] 50.0001%

https://thebad.website/comic/south_american_elections

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/54505307

The East Turkistan Government in Exile (ETGE) condemns the Chinese government’s ongoing genocide and colonial occupation of East Turkistan, which Beijing calls “Xinjiang,” meaning “New Territory,” and its coordinated effort to launder these crimes through staged trade forums and complicit international media. Now in its thirteenth year, this genocide is not receding; the Party’s own leadership has just declared its permanence.

Archived

[...]

This week’s International Conference for Trans-Altai Subregional Cooperation, held in occupied East Turkistan, does not stand alone. Days earlier, Wang Huning, the Chinese Communist Party’s chief ideologue and fourth-ranking official, toured East Turkistan and ordered “regular counterterrorist efforts,” forced assimilation as the “central task,” and intensified industrial exploitation, with particular emphasis on southern East Turkistan. The forum is the marketing arm of the doctrine the CCP set: the same colonial extraction, now sold to foreign delegations as “development.”

That doctrine is not new. In top-secret CCP Central Committee Document No. 7 of 1996, the Politburo Standing Committee designated the Uyghur and other Turkic peoples’ faith and identity as the principal threat to be eliminated. The same document ordered the state to develop southern East Turkistan, expand the paramilitary Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, and push cotton and petroleum production, the very industries on display at this forum. In the Party’s own classified words, development and repression are one and the same.

The ETGE rejects the claim, now circulating in international coverage, that mass detention was a “response to attacks.” Satellite analysis documents that construction of hundreds of detention facilities began as early as 2009, with the majority built between 2010 and early 2014, before China launched its “Strike Hard Against Violent Terrorism” campaign in May 2014. The apparatus of mass detention was built before the events invoked to justify it. The pretext was manufactured to fit a genocidal policy already in motion.

[...]

https://www.puzzmo.com/play/circuits