(Please note that Uyghur and Uighur are both acceptable spellings and are used interchangeably in this answer.)

A better question would be, are they really getting mistreated? If so much how of what we think as mistreatment is real or not?

In fact, this question (What are Uyghurs doing to fight back against the mistreatment they receive from China?) is an example of Complex Question Fallacy.

This is the “How many times per day do you beat your wife?” type of question, which somehow assumes you beat your wife even if it isn’t really a fact.

But, continuing to answer this biased question, let’s take a small look at some of the biased sources and disinformation out there (disinformation being defined by Merriam Webster Dictionary as “false information deliberately and often covertly spread (as by the planting of rumors) in order to influence public opinion or obscure the truth”).

This is an example:

No, this is not a video of a Chinese soldier beating a Uyghur Muslim for having a copy of the Koran

Person thrashed by Chinese army for possessing Quran? No, video from Indonesia - Alt News

Here they claim it was a Chinese soldier beating a Uyghur Muslim because the said Uyghur had a copy of the Quran in his house. The written message continues saying that we should send this to everybody so that they can know what is happening in “East Turkestan” (a name used by pro-separatists to refer to Xinjiang province of China as if it was a separate country). Then it follows with a claim that somehow China is killing all Muslims.

I don’t know who started this or when, but this is a clear example of disinformation: somebody with an agenda took a video of an Indonesian soldier beating a thief which went viral in 2017, and used it some years later to show it as a if it was a Chinese soldier beating a Uyghur. Not only that, they even added a tiny icon of the chinese flag in the right-hand corner to say this was happening in China:

Although in the video you can clearly hear the words “ampun pak” which is how Indonesians ask for forgiveness.

Here is the full video:

But who would make such an evil thing? Purposely lying to everybody, spreading false information, starting small and then making it go viral?

Well, most likely, separatist forces or separatist organizations in Xiangyang. It is really hard to track when it started or who started it, but that’s just one example.

Someone did this and that person had an agenda. This is important to remember.

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Now that we have seen this, let’s focus on something bigger.

This article from Reuters claims there are about 1 million Uyghurs detained in “concentration camps”.

U.N. says it has credible reports that China holds million Uyghurs in secret camps

This so called “millions of Uyghurs in camps” has been treated almost universally as a fact in all large and mainstream/important media corporations and news outlets throughout all of the US, Canada, Australia, UK, New Zealand, Germany, France, etc. In general, all of Europe, Five Eyes Alliance countries’ media, NATO countries’ media, European Union countries’ media.

Not only that, these media are telling us that it is the United Nations which is saying this.

China detains one million Uighurs, UN told

1 million Uighurs in Chinese 'internment camps,' UN hears | DW | 10.08.2018

However, in reality, the claims were said by a single member (only one from the United States) of an independent committee within the UN, and that this independent committee is made of independent experts, meaning that they are not UN officials, nor they can represent the UN as a whole.

Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination

The only member of that independent committe who stated this was a US-appointed member, Gay Mcdougal. She doesn’t represent the entire committee, and this committee in turn doesn’t represent the UN.

She also couldn’t even give the names of any of her sources:

UN panel concerned at reported Chinese detention of Uighurs

Now, an organization did send a report to that committe, and that organization is CHRD - Chinese Human Right Defenders, based on their own studies and the studies of someone called Adrian Zenz.

And how did they came up with this number? Like this:

China: Massive Numbers of Uyghurs & Other Ethnic Minorities Forced into Re-education Programs

They claimed that they interviewed 8 anonymous Uyghurs in Kashgar (and there is no way to even prove if they really interviewed anybody, but anyway, let’s continue). In the interviews they asked how many people from their villages were detained and what the total population of their towns was.

The result was that about 10% of the population of each of these 8 villages were “detained”, and interviewees number 7 and number 8 stated that they also knew how many were attending daily day/evening classes which were not detainned which according to them was about 20%.

For clarity, these 8 small villages are all in this single Kashgar prefecture of Xinjiang province (the area marked in red):

They then took this “Kashgar percentage” and multiplied it for the entire rural Uyghur population in all of the prefectures of southern Xinjiang. This is an enormous region with a large population (see marked here the blue area classed as southern Xinjiang, which again Kashgar is just one, small subdivision of):

You can’t just ask 8 people from 8 tiny villages in a very tiny region, and then extrapolate that into millions of people within an area that is 1.665 million square kilometres.

2,245 were the number of “detainees” they got from supposedly interviewing 8 “anonymous uyghurs”. The so called millions were, well, I guess you could say invented!

But hey, there is another source that says that roughly hundreds of thousands, or maybe millions of Uyghurs are been detained.

For those who don’t know, Adrian Zenz is a right wing fundamentalist Christian.

Co-author of the book: “Worthy to Escape: Why all believers will not be raptured before the Tribulation”

Adrian Zenz is against gender equality, in favor of “scriptural spanking”, physical punishment of children and against homosexuality. Furthermore, he believes that gender equality, banning physical punishment of children and the existence of homosexuality are also things of Satan and a threat to Christianity.

And this guy, Zenz, also believes that has been “led by God” to some sort of divine mission / holly crusade against China.

Zenz likes to present himself as a “german independent researcher” as well as a “scholar”. He authored this “study” confirming what he considers to be the numbers.

How did we get to the number of 1.5 million Muslims imprisoned in China?

Here is Zenz’s “study”:

NEW (Sept 2018) "Thoroughly Reforming Them Towards a Healthy Heart Attitude" - China's Political Re-Education Campaign in Xinjiang

The figures are based on a single report of a so-called “leaked document” obtained by a pro-separatist agenda media organization called Istqlal TV, which was then re-published by Newsweek Japan here: ウイグル絶望収容所の収監者数は89万人以上

The unverifiable table given by Istqlal TV, which Zenz used in his “study”, claimed that about 820,000 people were detained. But, Zenz also wrote, perhaps as a way to avoid responsibility for that: “The accuracy of this estimate is of course predicated on the supposed validity of the stated sources”.

For those who don’t know, the source, Istqlal TV, is also known for having Abdulkadir Yapuquan as a frequent guest, who is a senior leader of a terrorist organization ETIM - (East Turkestan Islamic Movement):

Uighur dissident in Turkey fights effort to extradite him to China

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Abdulkadir Yapuquan, China’s most wanted Uighur, freed in Turkey

ETIM are also known to have ties with Al Qaeda, The Taliban and they have even met Osama Bin Laden:

EASTERN TURKISTAN ISLAMIC MOVEMENT

They are also said to be involved in Syria’s civil war:

Syria says up to 5,000 Chinese Uighurs fighting in militant groups - uighur.nl

They even recruit and brainwash children to turn them into terrorists soldiers:

Yep, Abdulkadir Yapuquan is the kind of person Istqlal TV likes to invite onto their programs. And yes, this is also the kind of source Zenz is willing to use in his studies in his “mission” against China if it suits him.

At a convention in Geneva Zenz claimed that “although speculative, there are probably 1.5 million detained uyghurs in concentration camps”:

1.5 million Muslims could be detained in China's Xinjiang: academic

Zenz then, without any kind of proof whatsoever, randomly bumps up the figure again, this time now into 1.8 million uyghurs in an interview with Radio Free Asia:

By the way, the first estimate is about numbers detained in these so called “concentration camps” (or re-education and vocational trainning centers).

The first estimate ever given on this was about 120,000 uyghurs, published by Radio Free Asia in 2018-01-22, before CHRD, Istqlal TV and Adrian Zenz decided to take on the issue.

Around 120,000 Uyghurs Detained For Political Re-Education in Xinjiang’s Kashgar Prefecture

Wow, did you see that? What a trend! The figures increase every time!

Let’s break it down into a chronology:

First Radio Free Asia says 120,000, we don’t know quite why.

Then CHRD makes up numbers by suppossedly interviewing 8 anonymous Uyghurs in 8 tiny villages in a tiny area of Xinjiang, then use some weird extrapolation tactic, and Ta-dah! - millions of Uyghurs are in “concentration camps”.

Zenz takes an allegedly “leaked” report which somehow got into the hands of a pro-separatist internet media organization, Istqlal TV. This media station, completely coincidentally, likes to regularly invite one of the senior leaders of ETIM, a terrorist organization, with a motive for people to believe this, onto their show.

The so called “leak” obtained by this pro-separatist outlet talks about 820,000 people in re-education centers (or according to Istqlal TV and Zenz, “concentration camps”).

Zenz then uses this so called 820,000 “leaked document” (potentially a false or modified document by the way, we have no way to know) to somehow speculate in his study that between hundreds of thousands to perhaps above a million people are detained.

He then further inflates the figure into 1.5 million people in a Geneva Convention, so now there are not 820,000 but 1.5 million.

For his next trick, he then he randomly increases the figure again to 1.8 million Uyghurs in an interview in Radio Free Asia, so now there not 1.5 million Uyghurs anymore, but 1.8 millions uyghurs instead.

At this point one might even wonder if this fundamentalist Christian doesn’t know that lying is a sin, but he is after all on a divine mission against China given by God. Maybe he can make a slightly sinful sacrifice and take certain liberties when it comes to handling information and telling the truth for fulfilling his “God’s given mission” against China.

Besides Zenz, CHRD, Istqlal TV and Radio Free Asia there are several other organizations related to this topic, for example the World Uyghur Congress (WUC):

The WUC was created by Erkin Alptekin, a man who wanted to “see the fall of China” and turn the province of Xinjiang into an independent state called East Turkistan. Its sole purpose and main objective is to push forward a separatist agenda on Xinjiang.

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The WUC claims to strive to promote “democracy, human rights and freedom” through “peaceful, nonviolent and democratic” means.

But it’s not like the WUC were friends with or had at any point any kind of connection to certain leaders of violent paramilitary organizations, right?

Wrong, there you have the founder of the WUC, Erkin Alptekin, meeting with the de-facto leader of the Grey Wolves, a paramilitary group. The Grey Wolves are known for committing acts of violence:

Turkish Grey Wolves target ‘Chinese’

These include a bomb attack on a Hindu Shrine in Thailand which killed 20 people, among which 10 were Chinese tourists:

Thailand's Shrine Bombing - The Case For Turkey's Grey Wolves

The attack is believed to be linked to Thailand deporting Uyghurs who were suspected of being influenced by the East Turkestan Islamic Movement. They were deeemd as terrorists on their way to Turkey, Syria and Iraq to fight in support of terrorist activities there, and at least 13 of them have been linked to committed terrorist acts.

Uighurs 'on way to jihad' returned to China in hoods

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And does anybody here knows what do most of these have in common, besides constantly trying to make it look like China is mistreating Uyghurs?

Well, most of these have some sort of ties with or support from the US government (strap in, this hole goes quite deep).

For instance, our favorite holy crusader, Adrian Zenz. Besides being a fundamentalist Christian who somehow believes gender equality, homosexuality and banning violence against children are forces of Satan and the anti-Christ that threaten Christianity, he also happens to believe he is on a God given mission against China. His public persona, however, is as a “German independent researcher and scholar”. He also, incidentally, works for an organization created by the government of the United States, the Victims Of Communism Memorial Foundation (VCMF):

The VCMF was created by a US Congressional Act signed by President Bill Clinton on December 17, 1993, and President George W. Bush was an Honorary Chairman of said Foundation.

Among the founding members of the Victims of Communism memorial foundation we can find:

The National Security advisor of President Jimmy Carter, Zbigniew Brzezinski, who among his views, believed that the United States should take action to limit Mexico’s industrial and technological development. In his own words: “We cannot tolerate another Japan south of the border”.

Besides that, the VCMF is basically an offshoot of the National Captive Nations Committe, an organisation created by the United States in 1959 by President Dwight D. Eisenhower. The National Captive Nations Committe is essentially the front of former Nazi collaborators and extreme rightwing totalitarians, mainly the OUN - B (Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists - Banderists). Furthermore, Lev Dobriansky, a founding member of the VCMF, was also the chairman of the National Captive Nations Committe, and the co-chairmain of said Committe was Yaroslav Stetsko, who was the leader of the OUN-B, essentially an unpunished war criminal. The OUN-B collaborated with the Nazis in killing possibly hundreds of thousands of Poles during the “Volhynian Massacres”, as well as Jews and Russians, people they wanted to “purge” from Ukranian territory.

The Genocide on Poles Conducted by the OUN-B and UPA.

Seven Decades of Nazi Collaboration: America's Dirty Little Ukraine Secret - FPIF

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A recap: as we know, Zenz was also interviewed by Radio Free Asia, and Radio Free Asia was created by the US government to fight an ideological battle against certain countries in 1951, and has been spouting China-bashing propaganda ever since.

A CIA library document about Radio Free Asia: http://www.foia.cia.gov/sites/default/files/document_conversions/89801/DOC_0000846953.pdf

Which, by the way, was part of greater combined effort to push propaganda all throughout the entire world in order to shape and reshape world opinion as they pleased:

"Worldwide Propaganda Network Built by the C.I.A.” New York Times. December 26, 1977.

Here are the confessions of ex- CIA officer John Stockwell talking about how public disinformation was always a big part of the CIA’s strategy:

John Stockwell was a CIA officer for 13 years, he served in Africa and Vietnam and eventually on a subcomitee of the National Security Council in Washington DC. He also ran covert action operations from Washington as chief of task forces in Angola. He said that realising massive amount of disinformation to shape public opinion was by far one of the main tasks of the CIA.

He has also said that they often contacted journalists and gave them true stories, then get information from him as well, and finally give him false stories. He said that he knew about 400 journalists were cooperating with the CIA to consciously introduce false stories, including some of the biggest names in the industry. He also said that about 1/3 of his staff about Angola worked in propaganda. He also talked that how they invented stories about atrocities in Cuba, including one about Cuban rapists including with staged photos.

These kinds of things were also done during the Vietnam War extensively, including over one thousand books, hundreds of which were in English for US audiences, all sponsored by the CIA. When the Church Comitee, due to the Watergate sacandal, had to investigate the abuses of FBI, NSA, CIA and more and discovered the false history books created by CIA, they asked for the titles so that universities could at least put a stamp on the books to say that it was a CIA version of the story. Predictably they refused because it was comissioned to protect the method and sources, and the sources were officers who wrote those false propaganda books, some of whom even became distinguished scholars and journalists.

When he started he thought he was doing something good, to help spread democracy. But after his 13 years of work for the CIA he became disillusioned. Dissapointed, he became a critic of the CIA, and after those 13 years, these are the conclusions of John Stockwell.

Another ex-officer who quit the CIA and became a critic of the actions of the organization is Ralph Mcgehee, also the author of the book Deadly Deceits, which told how public mass disinformation campaigns were a very large part of the CIA’s job .

Another person who has dared to talk about CIA disinformation campaigns was the German Journalist Udo Ufkotte, who was bribed by the CIA to publish false news.

Here he speaks about how he has been a journalist for 25 years and that he was taught to lie, to betray and not to tell the truth. That he writes only Pro-European Pro-American, pro-NATO, anti-Russian, pro war propaganda, and that this is happening in all media throughout Europe:

Udo Ulfkotte used to work at the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung - FAZ, but when he started to notice that the trend was to push Europe to war against Russia, he decided to stop and speak out publicly against it. Udo Ulfkote was also sent in 1988 to the Gulf region to take pictures about how Iranians were killed with chemical poisonous gas weapons during the Iraq-Iran war. The paper consequently only published a small article with a very small photo on the subject, the editors choosing not to write about how catastrophic and brutal it was to kill people with WW2 German poison gas in 1988. He felt missused for not being able to speak about what was happening behind closed doors. He also revealed that the paper wanted him to write an article about how Libya’s then leader, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, wanted to secretly build a poison gas factory, and the article was published two days later.

Udo Ulfkotte also said:

“Most of the journalists you see in foreign countries, they claim to be journalists and they might be. But many of them, like me in the past, are so-called 'non-official cover.' It means you work for an intelligence agency, you help them if they want you to. But they will never say they know you.”

And:

They work on your ego, make you feel like you're important. And one day one of them will ask you 'Will you do me this favor?'

(That said, about Udo Ufkotte, wether he was or not a whistleblower is seen as more controversial, due to him having far-right views about inmigrants, and other issues. So because of those kinds of views, many people don’t consider him reliable. So I’ll leave it to your own opinion to belive Udo Ufkotte) That said, I think that with or without Udo Ufkotte, when we take into account the confessions from actual ex-CIA agents like John Stockwell. The study about the behaviour of press done by Noam Chomsky and investigations by Carl Bertein. And watching at the actual behaviour of media, I think anybody could see that there must be something wrong.

Carl Berstein, who worked with Bob Woodward with both of them being investigative journalists who uncovered and released much of the original reportings of Watergate, specifically mentions The New York Times, CBS and Time Inc. as some of the most valuable outlets among the media and news associations for the CIA.

In the words of the former CIA Director:

And lets not forget that Zbigniew Brzezinski, besides having been the National Security advisor of President Jimmy Carter, was also one of the founding members of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation:

As a side note, it is also interesting to note that Zbigniew’s daughter works as a journalist and political commentator at MSNBC.

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But what about the WUC - World Uyghur Congress and the CHRD - Chinese Human Rights Defenders.

Well, it turns out they are both supported by an organization called the National Endowment for Democracy - NED.

If we search the NED grant database, which only goes back to 2016, we see that in that period the WUC have received five grants for a total of $1,284,000

NED Grant Search

For the CHRD, trying to find their donors is more difficult, but independent researchers of The Grayzone have found that National Endowment for Democracy has provided them $490,000 in 2012 Form 990 (2002-2015)

$520,000 in 2013 Form 990 (2002-2015)

$514,068 in 2014 Form 990 (2002-2015)

So why does it matter that they are getting money from an organization called the National Endowment for Democracy?

Well, because the National Endowment for Democracy, despite presenting itself as an “NGO” - (Non Governmental Organization, usually with some kind of charitable mission), is in reality an extension of existing US foreign policy tools, and perhaps one of the most important ones.

History - NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR DEMOCRACY

After WWII, the US had been secretly sending advisers, equipment and funds to certain newspapers and political parties, and when it was revealed in the 1960’s that the CIA was covertly giving money to different organizations in order to wage a battle of ideas, they concluded they needed a “public-private mechanism” to fund overseas activities.

They also state that they encourage what they call “democratic development” consistent with the interests of both the US and the groups receiving assistance. As well, they say that funding flows from the United States Information Agency to the National Endowment for Democracy.

(And I shall say that considering how the NED is giving funds to anti-China, pro-separatists organizations like the World Uyghur Congress, well, that really tells us quite a lot about the interests of the United States)

They also tell us about the links between the National Endowment for Democracy, the AFL-CIO and the Free Trade Union Institute, which they used to infiltrate and control the labour unions of many countries throughout Africa, Asia, Latin America and Eastern Europe.

And they also tell us that right after the National Endowment for Democracy was created, the establishment of the CIPE, the NDI, the IRI and FTUI, currently known as the Solidarity Center, quickly followed. The National Endowment for Democracy became an umbrella organization for these other four organizations as well.

The NED is largely funded by the Congress of the United States, and created jointly by both Republicans and Democrats, and governed by a board of members of both parties.

About the National Endowment for Democracy - NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR DEMOCRACY

Now, to everyone who has managed to keep reading this far: all of the above about the CIA, and the words of John Stockwell, Udo Ulfkotte, Ralph Mcgehee, Carl Bernstein, Willian Casey and Zbigniew Brzezinski, next are the words of the co-founder of National Endowment for Democracy, Allen Weinstein:

From the organisation’s own founder.

But that’s not all. Here is what James Ciment and Immanuel Ness wrote about Allen Weinstein’s words in their article “NED and the Emperor’s New Clothes” for Covert Action Quarterly Magazine:
: https://covertactionmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/CAQ67-1999-1.pdf

According to them, Weinstein was not being entirely fair.

Although the NED’s funding was smaller than the CIA’s, the NED is more subtle, sophisticated and even polically acceptable method for furthering US foreign policy interests. While the CIA crushed democratic movements, the NED cooperated with them by making them dependent for funding on the US, or by recruiting their leaders or excluding them altogether. The NED was essentially a tool to create a political consensus shaped in the US’s own image.

They also tell us that the NED was created to fund pro-American political groups all around the world, and to diminish the negative impact of congressional exposes of CIA covert actions. The NED was suposed to be a “respectable means to achieve the same objectives as those of the CIA.”

For those who don’t know what is Covert Action Magazine, you should know that it was co-founded by ex CIA officers, like James Wilcott, Elsie Wilcott, and Philip Agee. Agee decided to quit the CIA and became a critic of the organisation after the Tlatelolco massacre in Mexico City in 1968. The magazine developed a following not as a conspiracy-theory related publication, but as a source for reliable, consistent, and accurate investigative reporting.

History - CovertAction Magazine

To illustrate more about the activities of National Endowment for Democracy, I’m going to cite extracts of texts of the book “Rogue State” by the American historian and US foreign policy critic William Blum which can be found on his oficial website:

Trojan Horse: The National Endowment for Democracy

The NED has manipulated elections in Nicaragua and Mongolia. The NED has even helped overthrow democratically elected governments in Bulgaria and Albania and worked to defeat the candidate for prime Minister in Slovakia who was out of favor in Washington. As well they supported a coalition in Haiti against Jean Bertrand Aristide.

The NED also mounted multi-level campaigns in the Phillipines in the mid 80’s, funding private organizations, including unions and media. This was a replica of typical CIA operations of pre-NED days.

The NED, like the CIA before it, calls what it does “supporting democracy”. The governments and movements that the NED targets call it by its real name: destabilization.

About the National Endowment for Democracy - NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR DEMOCRACY

As we have already seen, the NED is meant to support pro-US political groups around the world, and create a political consensus shaped in America’s own image. The NED themselves say that they give more than 1,600 grants to different organizations around the world in more than 90 countries. We also know that this organization, besides being pro-US, can be supportive of certain politicans or against certain politicians, like in Nicaragua and Mongolia. They have assisted groups with a regime change agenda, including to take down democratically elected leaders as has happened in Bulgaria and Albania. Other groups they help can be separatists, for example the World Uyghur Congress in China.

If we search the NED database of grants from 2016 to the present, we can find:

For Uyghurs: NED Grant Search

For Tibet: NED Grant Search

For Hong Kong: NED Grant Search

This is if we search for China as a whole: NED Grant Search

And this one to support pro-USA political groups through the entire World since 2016 until the present:

NED Grant Search

When Donald Trump won the elections, members of the US government were quick to make a scandal about how it might has been Russia which may have interfered in the elections, according to their theories. The US is very wary when it comes to other countries interfering in their internal affairs, even though they have no qualms when it comes to them doing exactly the same in the internal affairs of the rest of the World (the irony).

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The US manipulates a lot of the information we get about events and controls the narratives and story telling of many global issues. They always tell their own crafted versions of the story, not for the benefit of humanity as a whole, but for their own selfish interests.

Another famous example: the US used a false flag operation to say Vietnam had attacked them so they had a public excuse to enter the Vietnam War:

Or like that time they were planning to perpetrate terrorist acts against their own civilians, in order to blame Cuba and have an excuse for the military to invade them:

When the US was supporting Iraq in the Iraq-Iran war in 1988, they knew Iraq would use sarin and mustard gas, both banned by the Genneva Protocol following WWII. The US was not only totally okay with it, the US provided the imagery and maps to make using those weapons a success, fully knowing that this attack would result in the horrible death of thousands of civilians, many of them women, children and elderly people.

Exclusive: CIA Files Prove America Helped Saddam as He Gassed Iran

1925 Geneva Protocol

And a few decades later, when it became more convenient for the US to overthrow Saddam Hussein, the US decided to go with the excuse of attacking them because they claimed Iraq had Weapons of Mass destruction, even though ironically this time they didn’t had any:

There were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq

The Iraq War: In the beginning was the lie | DW | 09.04.2018

This war is estimated to have brought death to nearly a million innocent civilians, and displacement to many millions more:

And not only were there lies about WMD, there were no ties between Iraq’s government and Al Qaeda, which the US also used as an excuse to invade Iraq

Panel Finds No Qaeda-Iraq Tie; Describes a Wider Plot for 9/11

Furthermore, the Pentagon spend $500,000,000 to make fake Al-Qaeda videos:

The Pentagon paid $500m to make fake terrorist propaganda videos

And when it comes to push forward an agenda, even personal testimonies can be faked:

How False Testimony and a Massive U.S. Propaganda Machine Bolstered George H.W. Bush’s War on Iraq

And when it comes to all of this, do people seriously think this is all about promoting democracy and human rights?

No, there is always another ulterior motive, because while the Media and Politicians publicly speak about supporting freedom and human rights, this what politicians say behind the cameras:

This document was from Hillary Clinton’s released emails from Wikileaks. She reveals that President Nicolas Sarkozy committed France to attack Libya and overthrow the Gaddafi regime because he wanted a greater share of Libya’s oil, increase French influence in North Africa, improve his own political situation inside of France, reassert the French military’s position in the world, and avoid the rise of a gold backed currency called the Gold Dinar which would have given Francophone Africa another option to the CFA dollar (a threat to French controlled financial institutions).

To be more specific, Libya had 143 tons of gold and a similar amount of silver before the invasion. Furthermore, as long as France can control the CFA zone policies, France can act as a leech, sucking up the resources of other poor CFA member African countries.

‘La Françafrique’: The Special Relationship Between France and Its Former Colonies in Africa

Countries in the CFA Franc zone are required to deposit 50% of their foreign exchange surpluses into a French operations account. Besides this, due to the fixed parity, countries that use the CFA Franc suffer from the highly valued euro and have difficulties in exporting their goods because they cannot make their prices competitive (for example, they cannot devalue the currency or create money according to their needs, which would make their goods cheaper for importers to buy). On the other hand, these poorer CFA zone countries purchase most of their foreign goods in a strong currency (euro) while they sell local products in dollars (a weaker currency). This means that they have higher expenditures and lower revenues from international trade. Clearly, fixed parity with the euro benefits more foreign investors who want to repatriate their money and not those countries.

African economists denounce this practice as ‘monetary servitude’. According to Demba Moussa Dembélé, those bank deposits ‘deprive concerned countries of cash’. Furthermore, France gets privileged access to its former colonies’ raw materials and markets. Economic cooperation agreements continue to maintain trade arrangements that are preferential to France with the newly independent States.

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Personally, I don’t think China has any particular problem with Muslims in general. As an example, you can see this video of how Chinese Muslims in QingHai XiNing are celebrating the end of Ramadam, also known as Eid ul fitr (note: the video says in Xinjian, but the title is wrong)

If you want to see Xinjiang more in the present here’s a random video I found showing a typical day in Uruqm - everything seems peaceful and normal, as of January 30th 2020. I didn’t see any “oppression” in the video. And before somebody claims that it is CCP propaganda, I have to say that I deliberately picked a youtube channel that doesn’t even have 300 subscribers.

This isn’t effective as propaganda given that it has too few views and too few subscribers.

*This video only has 11k views and the channel only has 269 subscribers.

(I’m saying this because, somehow there seems to be people in this world that believe that everything that comes from China is propaganda, like a Youtuber can’t show anything good in China or say anything good in China, because otherwise they are part of the CCP and paid “wumaos”)

Also, the chairman of the Xinjiang autonomous region, Shohrat Zakir, stated that all trainees have graduated from the vocational education and trainning centers in Xinjiang.

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Here are some amazing sources of information which have served as major guides and compilations of evidences and from which I learned a lot of the details that helped me write this answer:

The Grayzone:

• No, the UN did not report China has 'massive internment camps' for Uighur Muslims | The Grayzone
• China detaining millions of Uyghurs? Serious problems with claims by US-backed NGO and far-right researcher 'led by God' against Beijing | The Grayzone
• Inside the World Uyghur Congress: The US-backed right-wing regime change network seeking the 'fall of China' | The Grayzone

Other sources:

• Part 22: The Role of the Media — Act II: Operation Mockingbird
• Vietnam Gulf Of Tonkin False Flag Attack By US CIA In 1965 - Warmongering Military Industrial Complex Used Propaganda, Pro War Mass Media Coverage And Fake Outrage By US President In Order To Start Vietnamese War - All Wars Are Based On Fear, Hatred, Greed And War Profiteering
• 'Victims of Communism Memorial' Organized by Fascists
• https://covertactionmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/CAQ67-1999-1.pdf

Other recommended articles:

• Worldwide Propaganda Network Built by the C.I.A.
• 26 Dec 1977, 9 - The Miami News at Newspapers.com
• https://msuweb.montclair.edu/~furrg/essays/conasonreagan85.pdf
• https://msuweb.montclair.edu/~furrg/essays/conasoncatchnazi86.pdf
• Mexican Oil and Technology Transfer
• ‘La Françafrique’: The Special Relationship Between France and Its Former Colonies in Africa

Recommended books:

• The Invisible Government by David Wise : David Wise : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
• Deadly Deceits
• Rogue State
• AFL-CIO's Secret War Against Developing Country Workers
• A Faustian Bargain
• Journalists for Hire: How the CIA buys the News, by Udo Ulfkotte
• Manufacturing Consent, by Noam Chomsky

Recomended magazines for people interested in knowing about intelligence operations and geopolitics and interested in knowing what the Mainstream Media will never show us:

• CovertAction Magazine - Exposing Covert Action Since 1978
• https://larouchepub.com/