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Eugene

(62,626 posts)
Sun Nov 3, 2019, 05:37 PM Nov 2019

Satellite images show the horrifying extent of China's cultural genocide of Uighurs

Source: Washington Post

In China, every day is Kristallnacht

By Fred Hiatt
November 3 at 11:00 AM

In China, every day is Kristallnacht.

Eighty-one years ago this week, in what is also known as the “Night of Broken Glass,” hundreds of synagogues and Jewish cemeteries in Nazi Germany were damaged or destroyed, along with thousands of Jewish-owned businesses. It was in a sense the starting gun for the genocide that culminated in the extermination camps of Auschwitz, Sobibor and Treblinka.

In western China, the demolition of mosques and bulldozing of cemeteries is a continuing, relentless process.

In a cultural genocide with few parallels since World War II, thousands of Muslim religious sites have been destroyed. At least 1 million Muslims have been confined to camps, where aging imams are shackled and young men are forced to renounce their faith. Muslims not locked away are forced to eat during the fasting month of Ramadan, forced to drink and smoke in violation of their faith, barred from praying or studying the Koran or making the pilgrimage to Mecca.

And — in possibly the most astonishing feature of this crime against humanity — China has managed to stifle, through 21st century repression and age-old thuggery, virtually any reporting from the crime scene.

Which makes all the more significant the publication last week of a heartrending compendium of evidence: “Demolishing Faith: The Destruction and Desecration of Uyghur Mosques and Shrines,” by Bahram K. Sintash.

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Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/11/03/china-every-day-is-kristallnacht/


The dome of a Uighur mosque in Artush, Xinjiang, was removed in 2018.
Source: Satellite image analysis by Uyghurism.com/Bahram Sintash



The site of Sultanim cemetery in Hotan, Xinjiang, in December, 2018 and March 2019.
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Satellite images show the horrifying extent of China's cultural genocide of Uighurs (Original Post) Eugene Nov 2019 OP
Hell, they went outside their own borders to wipe out Tibetan culture ... eppur_se_muova Nov 2019 #1
Bulldozing cemeteries - a complete erasure like with German Jews . +1 million Muslims interned lunasun Nov 2019 #2

eppur_se_muova

(37,347 posts)
1. Hell, they went outside their own borders to wipe out Tibetan culture ...
Sun Nov 3, 2019, 06:42 PM
Nov 2019

... they aren't going to hesitate to wipe out other cultures within their own borders.

lunasun

(21,646 posts)
2. Bulldozing cemeteries - a complete erasure like with German Jews . +1 million Muslims interned
Sun Nov 3, 2019, 08:39 PM
Nov 2019

I read where free Muslims have to allow party members into their homes uninvited for dinner or the evening who then check to see what they are up to and make sure they are assimilating as instructed

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