The National Endowment for Democracy, 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, DC were members of the Uyghur American Association, a subsidiary of the Uyghur World Congress, itself funded by the NED. Days before the rally at the Chinese Embassy, the secretary of the Uyghur American association had herself participated in a “Stop Asian Hate” rally — by protesting it!
So reports Dan Cohen in an April 15 Mint Press News article.
Common to the accusations about China’s perpetration of “genocide” against the Uyghur minority living mostly in its Xinjiang region leveled by other groups — accusations about concentration camps, mass rape, crematoria and murder — the claims include a huge factor of numerical drift (is it one million Uyghurs in “concentration camps,” or an even more astonishing three million) and a lack of supporting evidence.
Consider the accusation of crematoria being built next to the “concentration camps.” According to Cohen, although Chinese law mandates cremation for the Han majority, this policy (like the One Child policy) does not apply to Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities whose cultures demand burial instead. One Radio Free Asia article making claims about crematoria showed a picture that was actually of a newly built Uyghur cemetery. Other reporting from RFA (where Rushan Abbas had previously worked) cited the Uyghur Transitional Justice Database (a Norway-based organization funded by... you guessed it ... the NED). But that organization had no 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 claims of a supposed 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 bullshit, compared to the relative ease with which it is created, points to the need for trustworthy intelligence.
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