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[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

The thing is, I don't assume China's goal is to reduce the Uyghur population. The claims of "forced sterilization" are misrepresentations from known liar and propagandist Adrian Zenz, who misread 8% of new annual IUDs going to Uyghur women as 80%. There's no evidence whatsoever of forced sterilization.

There are reeducation camps, but I don't think reeducation alone is sufficient to call it a genocide, especially when we know it's pretty much over as a program and yet no evidence of mass sterilization or murder is here. Uyghurs were actually exempt from the One Child Policy, their birth rate is falling with the rest of China as poverty is reduced and from a higher height as they were actually allowed to have more kids previously.