We Found the Factories Inside China’s Mass Internment Camps

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28 points·jbegley··8 comments

The article talks about a, presumably, Kazakh national being locked up in a forced labour camp.

Two questions: is Dina Nurdybai Chinese or Kazakh? If Kazakh, how did she end up in that camp if the police took her from her home in Almaty? Is Kazakhstan sending their own people to those camps too?

"Kazakh" is one of the 56 ethnicities officially recognized by the Chinese government, so it's easily possible to be simultaneously Chinese and Kazakh.

In Dina Nurdybai's case, the article mentions that her new home is in Almaty, Kazakhstan but "she lived in the county of Nilka, located in northeast Xinjiang, near the border with Kazakhstan".

Nilka is part of the Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture of Xinjiang. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nilka_County

Wow. What happened to “Never Forget”? America is ok with this because we get cheap shoes?

This is actually incredible reporting from Buzzfeed. Now we know how to basically locate these slave-factories.

This is horrific...

Wasn't this debunked a long time ago as being just residential apartments? They're just making wild guess based on satellite imagery. Also,

> This project was supported by the Open Technology Fund, the Pulitzer Center, and the Eyebeam Center for the Future of Journalism.

Open Technology Fund is funded by the CIA. This is just ridiculous anti-China propaganda again.

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