Canada Recognized China s Actions Against Uyghurs As Genocide. Here s What You Need To Know
Destruction of religious and cultural sites, forced labour and arbitrary detention: China’s treatment of Uyghur Muslims needs to be held to account.
March 15, 2021
Protesters gather outside the Parliament buildings in Ottawa, Monday, February 22, 2021. (Photo: THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld)
Canada’s parliament recently voted to declare China’s treatment of Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslim populations as genocide, making them the second country to do so after the U.S. Here’s what you need to know about Uyghurs, what’s happening to them in China and why there’s been an international push to recognize genocide and impose consequences on China in attempts to stop the ongoing human rights abuses.
Media goes on trial in China as Beijing escalates attacks on journalists
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Damo Uncle wanted to be a BBC journalist. The middle-aged Chinese blogger said he would follow the âprinciple of results before evidence,â keep his camera on a suspicious angle, focus on the disorder of traffic jams and piles of rubbish and, when required, confront security guards to provoke a response.
Damoâs parody job application videos have been viewed more than 20 million times across blogging platform Sina Weibo and Chinaâs domestic version of TikTok, Douyin. In isolation they could be taken as a tongue-in-cheek take down of journalistic tropes, but they are part of a much larger and increasingly powerful ecosystem of Chinese government propaganda that demonises foreign reporting as biased, racist and stereotyped.
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