248
Priorities (lemmygrad.ml)
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[-] ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 1 year ago

I think that is really stretching the practicality of the term in order to label something genocide on a technicality based on ideological dogmatism. It is really hard to imagine a genocide where a single person is not killed. Even ignoring that, genocides always lead to a refugee and emigration crisis which also did not happen in the case of the Uyghur.

By the Chinese government’s own statistics, birth rates in Hotan and Kashgar fell by 60% from 2015 to 2018.

Is that enough to determine genocide? What were the birth rates after this drop? Were they in the red, leading to population reduction or stagnation? There are explanations to this drop that are not genocide. For example, ethnic minorities in China have always been lenient targets of China's family planning policies. It is possible that the Uyghur were subjected to stricter family planning post the terrorism crisis for reasons other than genocide.

this post was submitted on 20 Oct 2023
248 points (83.0% liked)

World News

2315 readers
167 users here now

founded 4 years ago
MODERATORS