Anonymous ID: 8745d7 Oct. 26, 2018, 7:02 p.m. No.3621129   🗄️.is 🔗kun

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/chinas-glittering-glamour-disguises-a-fist-of-tyranny/2018/10/26/857ff93a-d949-11e8-a10f-b51546b10756_story.html?utm_term=.e2acea13d7fc

 

not really trying to change the subject, but some interesting habbenings in China.

 

An estimated 1 million people, perhaps more, are imprisoned in concentration camps in Xinjiang province. New camps are going up at a furious pace, signaling even more widespread repression ahead. After many months of flat denials, the government in Beijing has finally admitted to the mass roundup of Turkic Muslims, primarily ethnic Uighurs and Kazakhs. The explanation is straight out of Mao’s disastrous Cultural Revolution of a half-century ago: “to cure ideological diseases,” as one party official put it.