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I'm not very informed on modern China and there's a ton of sources accusing China of killing and even harvesting organs from Uyghurs and Falun Gong believers.

Is there any truth to those claims or is it all pigpoop ?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 43 points 10 months ago (1 children)

(not a historian)

in pretty much every case, sources for the "uyghur genocide" trace back to zenz Adrian Zenz, a guy who can't read chinese who deliberately makes shit up to support his "holy crusade against china"

the thing that actually happened is that China had to fight CIA-funded terrorism in Xinjiang; they did so with prison sentences and re-education instead of ultraviolence - it worked, so they stopped doing it (much to the dismay of china watchers)

Falun Gong is banned because they are a death cult

[โ€“] [email protected] 28 points 10 months ago

Also the man believes that genocide (e.g. the holocaust) reduces crime.