<story><title>Tracking China&apos;s Muslim Gulag</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/muslims-camps-china/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>avar</author><text>Some quotes that stood out:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; In September, a Chinese official at the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva said the West could learn from his country’s program of vocational training. “If you do not say it’s the best way, maybe it’s the necessary way to deal with Islamic or religious extremism, because the West has failed in doing so,” said Li Xiaojun, the director of publicity at the Bureau of Human Rights Affairs of the State Council Information Office.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; The Chinese government has been trying to change the ethnic balance by shifting members of the majority Han Chinese into the region. [...]&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Photos of ancestors and prayer mats usually on display in Kazakh homes were all gone. They were “burned,” the locals told him. “These items,” he said, “were replaced with photos of the Chinese president and Chinese flags.”&lt;p&gt;As someone unfamiliar with the situation, a question I still have is whether this is something unique or unusual for the Chinese government, or how they&amp;#x27;d treat any other mass of people following some organized ideology or creed they saw as competing with their totalitarianism.&lt;p&gt;E.g. I&amp;#x27;ve heard about their efforts to shift the ethnic balance in Tibet, has that been followed-up with similar indoctrination efforts?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pavlov</author><text>&lt;i&gt;&amp;gt; ”... how they&amp;#x27;d treat any other mass of people following some organized ideology or creed they saw as competing with their totalitarianism”&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Falun Gong is the blueprint for this: a homegrown spiritual practice that gained too much popularity in the ‘90s and the authorities turned against it. Human rights groups estimate hundreds of thousands are still in “re-education” camps.</text></comment>
<story><title>Tracking China&apos;s Muslim Gulag</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/muslims-camps-china/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>avar</author><text>Some quotes that stood out:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; In September, a Chinese official at the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva said the West could learn from his country’s program of vocational training. “If you do not say it’s the best way, maybe it’s the necessary way to deal with Islamic or religious extremism, because the West has failed in doing so,” said Li Xiaojun, the director of publicity at the Bureau of Human Rights Affairs of the State Council Information Office.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; The Chinese government has been trying to change the ethnic balance by shifting members of the majority Han Chinese into the region. [...]&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Photos of ancestors and prayer mats usually on display in Kazakh homes were all gone. They were “burned,” the locals told him. “These items,” he said, “were replaced with photos of the Chinese president and Chinese flags.”&lt;p&gt;As someone unfamiliar with the situation, a question I still have is whether this is something unique or unusual for the Chinese government, or how they&amp;#x27;d treat any other mass of people following some organized ideology or creed they saw as competing with their totalitarianism.&lt;p&gt;E.g. I&amp;#x27;ve heard about their efforts to shift the ethnic balance in Tibet, has that been followed-up with similar indoctrination efforts?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Leary</author><text>A good predictor of whether the Chinese government would react to a group is the threat that group poses on the national integrity of China. Any separatist&amp;#x2F; independence movement will be harshly treated. You can find many examples of this. There is nothing the West that says or do that will change this policy.</text></comment>