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.
:-/
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.
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.