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Worrying reports from Uighur women - content warning, extremely upsetting

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ArabellaScott · 03/02/2021 09:45

Do please avoid this if you are likely to be upset - I am finding the story very hard to read.

Disturbing and horrible allegations coming from women detained in China. 'rape has become a culture'

www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-55794071

Is there anything at all that can be done about this?

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BigGreen · 03/02/2021 14:49

Jesus Christ. I knew about the "re-education" but had no idea it was this depraved. I'm following for ideas about what to do.

ScrapThatThen · 03/02/2021 14:38

Thank you for posting this OP. I know they are not popular here but I applaud Marks and Spencer for signing a pledge in January to not use cotton from Xinjiang. And I applaud Dominic Raab's strong statement on these issues www.gov.uk/government/speeches/foreign-secretary-on-the-situation-in-xinjiang-and-the-governments-response

www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/amp/business-55555270

LetItGoGo · 03/02/2021 14:23

Awful.

But op thank you for bringing it to my attention.

LetMeBubble · 03/02/2021 14:22

www.saveuighur.org/83-companies-linked-to-uighur-forced-labor/

Boycott!

BentBastard · 03/02/2021 14:13

Where is there outcry? All the usual public figures that love to condemn atrocities appear to have lost their voices.

These poor, poor women have no one with any influence that gives a shit.

2021 and rape and torture of women is so fucking accepted that it doesn't even warrant commenting on?

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ArabellaScott · 03/02/2021 13:38

www.iuhrdf.org/help

Various suggestions here.

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ArabellaScott · 03/02/2021 13:26

I'm trying to find campaigns - there's a bid to boycott cotton clothing that's come from cotton made in China.

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SophocIestheFox · 03/02/2021 13:13

No words.

I can only think of a letter to my MP as a first step. Any other ideas for action to take?

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ArabellaScott · 03/02/2021 12:46

Again, I really am sorry for anyone upset by this (- how could anyone not be) - but I want to find a way to stop it from happening. Nothing in the report suggested it was over or likely to stop.

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Gettingonwithlife · 03/02/2021 12:34

No words for this horrific abuse. After the atrocities of the holocaust it seems we are standing by watching it happen again.

DeaconBoo · 03/02/2021 12:31

It's vile, just disgusting. I feel so helpless to do anything. How can one group of people hold so much power over the another and choose to use it to do this?

Ereshkigalangcleg · 03/02/2021 12:30

It is rape as deliberate genocide - the controlling political faction (overwhelmingly Han) sees "diluting" Uighur racial identity by forcibly creating half-Han children as "a good thing."

It's exactly that Angry

UppityPuppity · 03/02/2021 12:28

Only read to half way. Couldn’t read anymore.

My God - those poor women.

NonnyMouse1337 · 03/02/2021 12:25

Oh god. I knew it was bad, but not like this. What a horrific read. What can we do? They shouldn't be allowed to get away with this.

colouringindoors · 03/02/2021 12:18

Horrific. Utterly horrific. Those poor, poor women Sad

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ArabellaScott · 03/02/2021 12:07

Thanks, Imnobody, for the info on the ICJ. Will the UN ever take any action on this?

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Xoxoxoxoxoxox · 03/02/2021 12:06

So many parallels with the Nszi's.
This report says the programme began in 2017, but I did not know the women were tortured and raped in concentration camps. Truly horrific.

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ArabellaScott · 03/02/2021 12:05

I'm sorry, I didn't want to read it and I wasn't sure about sharing it.

It really is about as bad as it could possibly be. I just think this horror is unfolding in a country that has so much power - as you say, Rupert, Auschwitz has taught us nothing - it's terrifying - I don't know what, if anything can be done.

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Mumofgirlswholiketoplaywithmud · 03/02/2021 11:43

Thank you for sharing the article. This is horrendous.

LetMeBubble · 03/02/2021 11:20

I will boycot China.

Arseholes arseholes arseholes.

Whatwouldscullydo · 03/02/2021 11:15

Don't have

Whatwouldscullydo · 03/02/2021 11:15

I really have the words to react to this.

SadAngry

PotholeParadies · 03/02/2021 11:10

I believe it too. The reports from other women who have been released corroborate each other.