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We have held people (including Uyghurs) in Guantanamo bay without trials or being charged for up to and over 18 years.

https://www.npr.org/2020/09/30/918454831/trial-of-sept-11-de...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/31/uighur-men-lea...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uyghur_detainees_at_Guantanamo...

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Because they were terrorists, we didn't hold 3 million of them in gitmo simply because they were ethnic minorities.

Orders of magnitudes in difference.

Holding a few dozen suspected terrorists !== holding 3 million people (nearly an entire race)

You can justify there may be proof for those few alleged jihads. You cannot reasonably prove those 3 million people are all terrorists.

Where are the cries to shut down these camps like there were cries to shut down Gitmo?

They were alleged terrorists. They were released after they were found to not be terrorists. Otherwise they would still be in captivity I suppose.

China's justification for holding Uyghurs is that they are terrorists, with a similar amount of evidence provided as for Guantanamo detainees.

Orders of magnitude. While both strain credulity, it is more plausible to take a government at its word for 300 people than for 3 million.

Plausibly it could be the case that there are 100 wrongly imprisoned people in Camp X-Ray without legal recourse... But equally plausibly there are at the very least 1,000,000 wrongly imprisoned people in the Uyghurstan concentration camps, with thousands added every day...

A good chunk of Twitter et al.

Where are you?

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