Claims of Uyghur Genocide? Sifting Through the Bullshit

April 17 (EIRNS)—The National Endowment for Democracy, the U.S. regime-change outfit established in the 1980s and funded by the U.S. Congress, has supported the Campaign For Uyghurs, headed by Rushan Abbas. Joining her at a March 30 rally outside the Chinese Embassy in Washington, were members of the Uyghur American Association, a subsidiary of the Uyghur World Congress, also funded by the NED. Days before the rally at the Chinese Embassy, the secretary of the Uyghur American Association had protested against a rally to “Stop Asian Hate”! So reports Dan Cohen in MintPress News on April 15.

Common to the accusations about China’s perpetration of “genocide” against the Uyghur minority, who live mostly in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, leveled by other groups, which include depictions of concentration camps, mass rape, crematoria, and murder, the claims involve a huge factor of numerical drift (is it 1 million Uyghurs in “concentration camps,” or an even more astonishing 3 million) and a lack of supporting evidence. China’s documentation that the Uyghur population in Xinjiang is growing, creates problems for the genocide claims

Consider the accusation of crematoria being built next to the “concentration camps.” According to Cohen, although Chinese law mandates cremation for the Han majority, that policy (like the defunct one-child policy) never applied to Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities whose cultures demand burial instead. One Radio Free Asia article making claims about crematoria showed a picture of what was actually a newly built Uyghur cemetery. Other RFA reportage (where Rushan Abbas had previously worked) cited the Uyghur Transitional Justice Database, a Norway-based organization financed by—you guessed it—NED. But the Justice Database had no data or photos of crematoria, simply a claim by “serial fabulist” Adrian Zenz that “there might be a cremation site near the camps.” RFA claims about government tenders to build burial management centers had no supporting evidence, as were its allegations of a job listing for 50 crematorium workers.

Such claims are simply asserted, laundered through a series of interconnected research institutes, press agencies, and activist groups, and presented to the public as a well-vetted basis for taking harsh measures against the Chinese government.
The enormous amount of effort that must be expended to expose the cow manure, compared to the relative ease with which it is created and spread, points to the need for trustworthy intelligence.