China's concentration camps
Today, Explained
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🗓️ 19 September 2018
⏱️ 24 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | A friend texted me this morning and asked with these shoeads, I've been doing, am I saying |
| 0:04.3 | toms.coms? |
| 0:05.6 | No, I'm saying toms.com. |
| 0:09.3 | But when you run it all together, toms.com slash explain it can sound like I'm saying toms.coms. |
| 0:14.9 | But the website where you can get 15% off your first purchase and free shipping on your next |
| 0:19.4 | purchase of shoes or eyeglasses is toms.com slash explain. |
| 0:28.2 | We're going to hear today is stuff from like a horrible movie. |
| 0:33.6 | I mean, just these are crazy things. |
| 0:36.5 | Things that we've read about that used to happen in thousands of years. |
| 0:39.6 | In China's Xinjiang province to be a weger Muslim is to be accused of having a contagious |
| 0:44.4 | disease. |
| 0:45.4 | Now, according to the United Nations panel report more than one million weger Muslims are |
| 0:50.8 | placed in detention camps in China. |
| 0:54.0 | There are reports from police of lists of actions that can get you disappeared. |
| 0:59.1 | Giving up alcohol, which is seen as a sign of Islamic extremism. |
| 1:03.1 | Not greeting officials on the street, growing a beard, giving up smoking, not knowing Chinese. |
| 1:08.9 | If you receive a phone call from abroad, if you've gone abroad, if they find WhatsApp on |
| 1:13.6 | your phone, a VPN, which allows you to get outside the great firewall, if they find a |
| 1:18.0 | picture of a mosque or something that looks Islamic, if they stop using their phones, |
| 1:23.6 | which they see as an effort to get outside of the surveillance network. |
| 1:28.3 | You can be disappeared for that. |
| 1:30.0 | Essentially, anything that suggests to a police force that you might be externally compliant, |
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