The other day I saw people talking about how they felt that people are fighting harder for the Uyghur genocide that is happening than we are for the Rohingya genocide, so I’d like to point out a few things.

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This thread is not meant to say one is worse than the other, but to point out what is being done for one vs the other

The Rohingya Muslim minority group in Burma, and have faced years long history of severe discrimination & persecution, violence, and denial of citizenship

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MaBaTha, a Buddhist nationalist group, and the anti-Muslim 969 movement, have called for boycotts of Muslim shops, attacks on Muslims, and to expel them from Burma.

In 2012, waves anti-Muslim riots and violence intensified, killing & displacing >100K Rohingya.

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Since 2012 and 2013, the violence and killings against the Rohingya has only gotten worse.

In December of 2018, the United States Holocaust Museum determines there was evidence that genocide had been/is being committed against the Rohingya.
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>700,000 Rohingya have fled from Burma to Bangladesh since August 2017, where they have ended up in heavily overcrowded refugee camps.

Because of the crisis, the United Nations took Burma to the International Court of Justice at The Hague. (5/?)

January 27th, 2020, the U.N. International Court of Justice at The Hague ordered Burma to protect the Rohingya people from genocide, saying to protect them with “all measures within its power.”

The IJC also ordered Burma to report regularly to the court with its progress. (6/?)

The Rohingya crisis and genocide is far from over, and concerns are still to be had over the safety and well-being of the Rohingya people. It’s still not deemed safe for refugees to return to Burma.

Now, let’s talk about the Uyghur genocide. (7/?)

Right now, little is known about what is happening to the Uyghur people in the Chinese camps.

What we do know is this:

The Uyghur people, a muslim ethnic minority in China, have been being arrested and forced into slave labor, detained in “re-education” camps. (8/?)

CCP officials say that the slave labor camps are just at “re-educational” or “vocational” facilities, when in fact they are being charged with fake crimes & imprisoned indefinitely. At these camps they are forced to renounce their religion, women are facing forced sterilization/9

at the camps they are being brutally beaten, mentally tortured, starved, forced to shave their head, killed, and who knows what else.

The international response:

As of September 3rd, 2020, a British human rights lawyer will convene an independent tribunal to investigate (10/?)

The British human rights lawyer will investigate China’s alleged human rights abuses against the Uyghur population, however it does not have government backing.

Sept 14, the EU asked China to let independent observers into Xinjiang & China said they’re welcome to. (11/?)

Activist groups around the world, including the United States-based Uyghur Human Rights Project, Genocide Watch and the European Centre for the Responsibility to Protect, on 9/15/20 called on the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) to launch an investigation into China/12

To conclude, when I saw these people the other day, complaining that people are doing “too much” for the Uyghur genocide, and not enough for the Rohingya genocide, I had to do a double take.

First of all, we can fight for more than one cause.
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Second of all, and finally, the world has taken steps for Rohingya population that it has not taken for the Uyghur population.

Does that mean that we are done helping the Rohingya people? No. In fact, we have done far too little, and there is a long, long ways to go still (13/?)

But we cannot say one cause is more important than the other. That is all.

How to help the Rohingya people: https://www.rescue.org/country/bangladesh