The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination set off the 'Uyghur genocide' myth when they seemed to claim 1 million Uyghurs were in concentration camps, but interestingly, this allegation only came from one member, and was contradicted both by the

detailed report of the committee, and by the Chinese delegation to the committee, but guess what got reported in the media: you guessed it, the inflammatory and unsubstantiated remarks of that one member https://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=23452&LangID=E

The more detailed report is worth reading in its entirety, because China comes across as a model for a harmonious, multi-ethnic nation, with deep concern for the language, cultural practices, and religion of its ethnic minorities. https://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/15/treatybodyexternal/Download.aspx?symbolno=CERD/C/CHN/14-17&Lang=en

I'm going to quote it at length, because people often tell me stories about how China is suppressing minority languages. Here's the committee's finding on that:

"65. China not only allows citizens to use minority languages in public institutions at all levels, but it has also created ethnic-language work-management networks at the national, provincial/regional, prefectural/league and county levels and a cooperation system

linking provinces and regions. Ethnic minority language-work institutions have been set up from the central to the local levels in China, and governments in places with relatively large ethnic minority populations

have set up internal institutions responsible for the spoken and written languages of ethnic minorities." (p. 15)

"66. Spoken and written ethnic minority languages are used in the administrative and judicial fields. At meetings of major bodies, such as the National Party Congress, the National People’s Congress and the CPPCC, documents are provided in the scripts of the Mongol, Tibetan,

Uighur, Kazakh, Korean, Yi and Zhuang ethnic groups, and simultaneous interpretation facilities have been set up. At meetings held in ethnic minority communities, one or more of the spoken and written languages common in those communities are used.

Many ethnic area governments distribute important documents and texts of laws and regulations at the grass-roots level in both Mandarin and ethnic-minority written languages.

In ethnic autonomous areas, where conditions permit, judicial departments publish judgments, notices and other documents in the writing systems commonly used in the locality." (p. 15)

This one is about folk medicine, which is also respected:
"87. There are some 200 hospitals throughout China in which the folk medicine of one or more of 15 ethnic groups is practised. In ethnic areas, most traditional Chinese-medicine hospitals, town and township health clinics

& some general hospitals have set up ethnic-medicine departments covering the folk medicine of 18 ethnic groups. The vast majority of village health centres in ethnic areas, as well as some health-care facilities in local communities, are able to provide ethnic-medicine services

By the end of 2015, a total of 12 educational institutions were offering specialties related to ethnic medicine, and some 16,000 students were enrolled in ethnic-medicine universities and colleges throughout the country.

Moreover, specialized qualification examinations in Tibetan, Mongolian, Uighur and Dai ethnic medicine have been developed, and there are now nearly 10,000 ethnic practising physicians and assistant physicians nationwide." (p. 18)

So, lemme get this straight: the committee that set off the Uyghur genocide story admits that China in fact goes to great lengths to support native languages and folk medicine practices. Do they support Islam? Well the report has some interesting things to say about that

"95. The Islamic faith is common among members of the Hui, Uighur, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Uzbek, Tajik, Tatar, Dongxiang, Salar and Bao’an ethnic minorities.

According to data from the sixth national population census (conducted in 2010), the current population of these ten ethnic minorities is 23.14 million. They are distributed throughout China but are mainly concentrated in Xinjiang, Ningxia, Gansu, Qinghai and Henan.

In accordance with their religious doctrines, rules and customs, Muslims worship, fast, give sermons and recite the Qur’an in public venues for religious activities and in their own homes.

96. The Chinese Government respects and protects the freedom of religious beliefs as well as the customs of Muslims. As at 31 December 2013, a total of 39,177 venues for Islamic religious activities (mosques and other permanent facilities) had been built throughout the country,

accounting for roughly 29.7 per cent of all religious activity venues in China, and there were some 50,000 Islamic clergy. Muslims undertake organized hajj pilgrimages to Saudi Arabia.

In recent years, the number of yearly participants has exceeded 10,000, with 14,500 participants in 2015 alone. The Chinese Government assists these hajj pilgrims with transportation, medical care, sanitation, meals and lodging; it also allocates funds to support efforts

undertaken in the Islamic community to maintain and repair old mosques and other venues for religious activity, so as to ensure the safety of Islamic believers’ religious activities as well as the personal safety of the believers themselves.

The folkways and customs of ethnic minority Muslims with regard to diet, marriage, funerals and religious festivals are respected.

[end quote] So I guess genocide is when you fund ethnic languages, ethnic folk medicine, and send tens of thousands to Mecca, while building new mosques and restoring old ones. Keep in mind, these are the findings of the UN committee

What was reported in the media is pretty much the exact opposite of all this, of course. Seems legit
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