cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/53062611
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Starting around March 27, Uyghur Times reviewed multiple videos from Urumqi and Kashgar showing city management workers removing Uyghur-language signs from shops, restaurants, supermarkets, and even private businesses. In many cases, only Chinese-language signage was left behind.
One widely circulated video on the Chinese version of TikTok shows the demolition of Uyghur-style architectural elements at a major transportation hub in Urumqi, known as Uchtash Qatnash Bikiti (also referred to as Sandongbi Transportation Station).
In the footage, a Uyghur man standing in front of the site expresses deep sorrow:
“Today we are witnessing the destruction of one of the most iconic cultural landmarks in Urumqi. It held our memories. For many of us, our journeys began here and ended here. Now, it is gone.”
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Other videos show workers dismantling Uyghur-language signage across urban areas. One sign reads “ئۆي مۈلۈكچىلىك، ئىلىم سېتىم,” meaning “Real estate Sales & Transactions.” Another removed sign identifies a construction materials supplier. In the clip, a bystander can be heard lamenting:
“It is not over. One day, it will come back.”
Observers say the campaign reflects a broader effort to eliminate visible markers of Uyghur cultural and linguistic identity under the framework of the new law.
When the law was passed, experts warned that it would legitimize cultural destruction and forced assimilation. Uyghur activists also condemned the law.
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https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/author/tahir-imin/
Absolutely wild that this guy works for the Times of Israel. What must that writers room be like?
Ad hominem. Even Fox News or Russia Today can sometimes dabble in the truth. When they do it’s always fair to question what their agenda is and how the information aligns with it. But it doesn’t make true things less true.
Not that I’m trying to defend this person. But China’s poor treatment of cultural and ethnic minorities is well understood and factual. Whether you’re from Tibet, Hong Kong, Xin Jiang, or elsewhere. Honestly even the governments treatment of the Han majority leaves plenty to be desired. You can be jailed under a farce trial simply for making fun of Deng or Ze Dong.
Ad hominem
Not that I’m trying to defend this person
:-/
Even Fox News or Russia Today can sometimes dabble in the truth.
But why would you go to them as a primary source?
Honestly when a powerful State like the US or China doesn’t want a story to be covered they exert a lot of control over most media. Just look at the coverage of Palestine in Us Media it’s extremely lopsided. The only reason it’s not worse than it is is because the United States hasn’t gotten as skillful at making people disappear for their coverage like China has. They’re definitely working on it though.
The only reason it’s not worse than it is is because the United States hasn’t gotten as skillful at making people disappear
ICE camps and El El Salvadorian prisons are full of people who would argue otherwise. Trump’s been happy to go after citizen journalists with green cards and visas - Estefany Rodríguez of the Nashville Noticias being a recent example.
But the US media market is private, decentralized, and profit motivated, which periodically puts it at odds with a partisan government that - itself - changes hands every two to six years.
Nobody seriously thinks the CCP is going to be out of power in the next election cycle. So there’s no second party to court with anti-government rhetoric and no real money to be made as a professional hater unless you’re working with foreign agents.
It’s apples and oranges.
Propagandists can’t stop lying about this law. It’s astounding.
Read the law for yourself. I’ve excerpted relevant parts here. It’s incredibly inclusive. It’s essentially the opposite of what the propagandists would have you believe.
The West is a white supremacist monoculture that genocides and erases anyone who is different and forces assimilation on peoples. Western propagandists project that behavior into China against all evidence to the contrary.
Article 5: All citizens of the People’s Republic of China are equal before the law.
All ethnicities in the People’s Republic of China are equal. Discrimination against or oppression of any ethnicity is prohibited.
Article 6: A sense of the community of the Chinese people is at the root of ethnic unity. The state is to persist in promoting commonality while respecting and embracing differences, promoting mutual support and harmonious coexistence among all ethnicities, and preserving the great unity of the Chinese people. Acts that undermine ethnic unity and create ethnic division are prohibited.
Article 7: The state is to promote the shared unity and struggle of all ethnicities and their common prosperity and development, promote the coordinated development of material, political, spiritual, societal, and ecological civilization, and fully advance the development and progress of the Chinese people.
Article 8: The state is to uphold and improve the system of ethnic autonomous regions, preserving national and ethnic unity. [国家统一和民族团结]
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The exceptional traditional cultures of each ethnicity are all components of Chinese culture. The state is to persist in using the advanced socialist culture to guide the creative transformation and innovative development of the exceptional traditional cultures of each ethnicity, and support the publicity and promotion of China’s exceptional traditional culture.
The state is to persist in using the advanced socialist culture to guide the creative transformation and innovative development of the exceptional traditional cultures of each ethnicity, and support the publicity and promotion of China’s exceptional traditional culture.
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The state respects and protects the learning and use of minority languages and scripts, promotes the regulation, standardization, and digitalization of minority languages, and supports the protection, organization, research, and use of old ethnic minority books.
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Article 29: The state is to promote mutual learning and integration between ethnic cultures, encouraging all ethnic groups to appreciate each others’ exeptional traditional cultures, and learn each other’s languages and scripts. All levels of people’s government shall support cultural workers and related units to create and display literary and artistic works that are rooted in Chinese culture and embody the interaction, exchange, and integration of all ethnic groups.
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Article 32: The state is to implement the new concept of development, support ethnic regions in fully deepening reform and opening, fully integrating into the national development strategy, increasing capacity for self-development, accelerating the high-speed development of ethnic regions, promoting the collective affluence of all ethnicities, and promoting the collective march of all ethnicities towards socialist modernization.
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Article 36: The state is to establish a modernized industrial system, develop new types of productive forces suited to local conditions, orderly advance industry cooperation and benefit sharing between regions, support ethnic regions in giving full play to their role in optimizing regional industrial and supply chains, and advance the establishment of a unified large market.
The relevant State Council departments and people’s governments at the county-level and above shall support ethnic regions in developing industries where they have distinctive advantages, based on their resource endowments and utilizing modern science and technology, such as agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, and fisheries, agricultural food processing, textiles, and cultural tourism, as well as traditional crafts and medicine; and develop strong new forms of rural collective economics and advance full rural reviatilization and integrated urban-rural development.
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Article 57: Where state organs and their staff fail to perform or incorrectly perform their duties provided for in this law, or fail to promptly stop the illegal acts stipulated in Articles 58, 59, 60, and 61 of this law and address them in accordance with law, the competent departments or relevant organs are to order corrections; and where negative consequences or impacts are caused, sanctions are to be given to the responsible leaders and directly responsible personnel in accordance with law; and where a crime is constituted, criminal responsibility shall be pursued in accordance with law.
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https://www.chinalawtranslate.com/en/ethnic-unity-and-progress-law/
What the law says and what the state does can be two different things. That’s true for the West and China.
We know what the CCP does to China’s ethnic minority communities. Reciting the word of the law doesn’t change the evidence of how the state implements it.
We know what the CCP does to China’s ethnic minority communities.
Do we? Because Papa Zenz told you so?
