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Another Year of Uyghur Genocide It’s becoming cliché to talk about how terrible 2020 was. And it was, for many around the world. But for Uyghurs, it was just another year of terror, following several in which millions were rounded up into camps, jailed, mosques and cemeteries bulldozed, part
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Not China-led, despite what you saw on mainstream news.
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Undercovered this week So, apparently China may have territory from Nepal – and the pro-China leaders in Kathmandu...didn’t mind. Creeping imperialism in the Himalayas, again (The Telegraph). Meanwhile, in China, more signs that the war on the Uyghurs is turning into a war on Islam, with Chinese Muslims far
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Undercovered this week Typhoon Goni/Rolly hit the Philippines last week, devastating the island of Catanduanes, which lacks power and telecoms services. At least 25,000 homes have been destroyed, 20 have died, and the recovery efforts will likely take months (Channel News Asia). In fact, Goni is merely one
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“You know that with a sea level rise of over 1.5 meters, hundreds of millions of people would be dead. They would simply be wiped out,” Mohamed Nasheed, then-President of the Maldives, told the UN Chronicle in 2009. “Countries are now under threat because of climate change and because
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Undercovered this week Uyghur Genocide Update: With millions of Uyghurs in camps or forced to work in factories around China, Uyghur children have been forcibly separated. Now, Ruth Ingram reports on thejail-like boarding schools where they’re being held, and likely indoctrinated. I can’t even imagine the trauma they
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Undercovered this week In Sept 2019, environmental advocate and net idol Houayheuang Xayabouly, better known as Muay, was detained for posting a Facebook video criticizing the Laos government response to a flooding disaster. A year later, a movement for her release is growing, writes Mong Palatino for Global Voices. In