That ceaseless surveillance also leads to constant arrests, and many Uighurs are thrown into prison-like camps without committing any crimes. The Chinese government has claimed that these are “vocational training facilities” and that they are simply trying to help the Uighurs assimilate into Chinese society, although as Oliver noted, “[A]ssimilation, when forced, is cultural erasure.”
On top of all this, many Uighurs have been taken from their homes and forced to work in factories across China, including those that make products for companies like Nike and Volkswagen. Oliver then played a clip of Volkswagen’s CEO claiming he knew nothing about the treatment of Uighurs in China.is overlooking a massive human rights crisis is kind of a lot like finding out your grandparents are still having sex,” Oliver cracked.
Oliver closed with a call to ensure that the treatment of the Uighurs receives the kind of global attention it deserves. Although he acknowledged the limits of “raising awareness” as a fix-all, he argued that, in this case, it can be wielded to push governments and multi-national corporations to act. “In this instance, awareness is actually a necessary pre-condition for action,” Oliver said.
Yeah wtf are we supposed to do about concentration camps across the world when we can’t even do something about the ones here in the south?🙄 totally support the Uighur population just doesn’t effect my people here on a daily bases
ProChristopher Based on Zenz as source (and those using Zenz as source). So we know it was part of a disinformation campaign, paid for by US... Good to see 'free media' in action
Isn’t that something, now do a piece on the kids dying in detention centers and how brownshirt the police state has become to resemble Pinochet’s brutal dictatorship with a checklist of everybody who has been crippled while the constitution has been suspended.