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Mekong Review: Technology and terror

Mekong Review: Technology and terror

On 6 February 2021, the full story of what is happening to minorities in Xinjiang was briefly available to a small number of people in China.

By Robert Templer
Mekong Review
August 2021

 Technology and terror
Illustration: Gianluca Costantini

On 6 February 2021, the full story of what is happening to minorities in Xinjiang was briefly available to a small number of people in China. The audio chat room Clubhouse held a discussion on the detention of Muslim minorities. Moderated by Uyghurs and eventually including about 4,000 people, the discussion centred on the question ‘Are there concentration camps in Xinjiang?’ With what one commentator described as ‘an absence of … “Hansplaining”: Chinese-language discussions of Xinjiang which privilege Han perspectives’, the group had a mostly open discussion of the abuses against fellow Chinese citizens.

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