Political Rant

I'm not very political.

In fact, I hate discussing politics.

BUT, I am so angry right now at the Chinese government ......

They have been treating the UIGHURS of China in the most despicable and horrible way....it totally reminds me of the German government in their want to wipe out the Jews and Blacks.

What the Chinese are doing is unconscionable....but the whole world just lets it happen.

In reality, how can we STOP IT?

When we went to China in 2010-2011, we visited a lovely Uighur village.  They were remote from the rest of the population and lived their lives quietly and with no politics.

However, that has been changing:

The Uighurs are Muslim, they don’t speak Mandarin as their native language, and have ethnicity and culture that is different from that of mainland China.

Over the past few decades, as economic prosperity has come to Xinjiang, it has brought with it in large numbers the majority Han Chinese, who have cornered the better jobs, and left the Uighurs feeling their livelihoods and identity were under threat.

Around a million Uighurs, Kazakhs and other Muslims have been bundled into internment camps, where they are allegedly being schooled into giving up their identity, and assimilate better in the communist country dominated by the Han Chinese.

Children have been separated from their parents, families torn apart, an entire population kept under surveillance and cut off from the rest of the world. The few survivors who have managed to escape the country have been reported to speak of physical, mental and sexual torture at these camps.

China resolutely denies all such allegations, claiming the camps to be ‘educational centres’ where the Uighurs are being cured of “extremist thoughts” and radicalisation, and learning vocational skills.

A MILLION UIGHURS in internment camps being kept away from their families, being cured of extremist thoughts?  Tortured, punished, etc.?  It is so inhumane to even think about that happening under our noses in 2019?!?!?!?!

I am appalled, horrified, and feel so helpless.

I wish the people in Congress would get off their high horses and defend civil rights around the globe.  

Over and over again, I am so grateful to be an American.  But, it comes with guilt sometimes.  

WHAT CAN I DO?  

Today, I'll go do something for a neighbor; it's nothing, really, but it's something, at least in the crazy mixed-up world.