The #ICC said it can’t assert jurisdiction over China’s repression in #Xinjiang. https://t.co/kw2AQy9Qin

But facts are facts: China’s gov't has committed serious rights violations against the #Uyghurs on a 🚨massive 🚨scale.

A 🧵on @hrw findings so far & next steps.

In 2018, @wang_maya literally wrote👏 the👏 book👏on the Chinese govt's mass, systematic campaign of violations against Turkic Muslims in Xinjiang. /2 https://t.co/t7nyX3x6QO
The Chinese govt's "Strike Hard" campaign has subjected ❇️ 1 million+❇️ Turkic Muslims to abuses like:

💠forced political indoctrination
💠collective punishment
💠restrictions on movement and communications
💠heightened religious restrictions
💠mass surveillance

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Not even kids are safe from this campaign’s cruelty.

Chinese authorities have kept countless children - whose parents are detained or in exile - in state-run child welfare institutions & boarding schools w/out parental consent or ⛔️access. More here: https://t.co/vVT6Xk4U7Y

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Last week, @wang_maya revealed a big data program for China’s policing in #Xinjiang that arbitrarily selects Turkic Muslims for possible detention. The government is using technology 💻 to “turbocharge” its repression of the #Uyghurs.

https://t.co/C8xouSEHD4

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The global🌐horror at Chinese govt repression is growing, as is the political cost for China. In October, 3⃣9⃣ countries publicly rebuked the widespread rights violations in Xinjiang, Hong Kong & Tibet,⬆️from 27 countries only a few months ago.

https://t.co/OAZa8q2pjx

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This followed the 🔥searing indictment🔥 of the Chinese govt's rights record by 5⃣0⃣(‼️) independent human rights experts that report to the UN Human Rights Council. They urged UN member countries to urgently create a mechanism to monitor abuses.

https://t.co/ZEkhjCYP2g

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What now? We need more countries to #StandwithUyghurs at the #UN, like 🇵🇹 @Portugal_MoFA, 🇨🇷@CRcancilleria, 🇷🇴@MAERomania, 🇨🇿@CzechMFA, 🇨🇾@CyprusMFA, 🇬🇹@MinexGt, 🇩🇴@MIREXRD & 🇲🇽@SRE_mx.

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And 🇫🇷 France @francediplo_EN could put @EmmanuelMacron's recent🗣️call for a #UN investigation of #Xinjiang repression into action by leading the charge in the #UN Human Rights Council...

https://t.co/6Owtq4fdmC

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...especially since @UNHumanRights Commissioner @mbachelet's 19+ months-old request to Beijing for unfettered access to #Xinjiang remains unanswered. https://t.co/chGKNnZeZc

A UN🇺🇳member state-backed investigation would make the Chinese govt's equivocation a lot harder.
None of this is easy. But @chiefrabbi framed the imperative to act on #Xinjiang so well:

👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇

Though the task is great, none of us are free to desist from it. As Nelson Mandela himself said: “It always seems impossible until it’s done.”

https://t.co/8BSNlG7Fre

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"MLs" do support the proletariat of Xinjiang & have the whole time. People like @Tursunali_7 & @GulnarNorthwest (and many others) who show the world the real Xinjiang via their everyday videos.

Shopkeepers like in this video below say

"Pompeo, we Xinjiang people hate you."


Or everyday working people like Zaynura Namatqari, who speak out against vicious & disgusting US lies and accusations about


.@qiaocollective have a brilliant thread of everyday proletarian Uyghurs speaking out against the harassment they face from the US and their paid


'Uyghur proletariat' looks like this:


Not like this: (photo from a pro Islamist separatist protest in Turkey in 2017)

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