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Adrian Zenz
@adrianzenz
Director in China Studies at @VoCommunism. Expert in @EU_Commission Forced Labor Expert Group. Researches Xinjiang & Tibet.
Minnesota, USA
Joined November 2016
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    Major news: the @ilo adopts new forced labor measurement guidelines that squarely target Uyghur forced labor. Deeply humbled to see that they adopt my work in their new research guidance on state-imposed forced labor. An analysis is below and in the linked article:
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    BREAKING: huge trove of files obtained by hacking into Xinjiang police / re-education camp computers contain first-ever image material from inside camps, reveal Chen Quanguo issuing shoot-to-kill orders, Xi Jinping demanding new camps because existing ones are overcrowded. 🧵
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    The material is unprecedented on several levels: 1. High-level speeches, implicating top leadership and containing blunt language 2. Camp security instructions, far more detailed than China Cables, describe heavily armed strike units with battlefield assault rifles
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    The BBC's video: Ghulzira Auyelkhan tells on camera how she, a female camp detainee, was given the job of handcuffing naked Uyghur girls to beds so that the Han men could go in and rape them. The men paid money to pick which girl they wanted to rape. fb.watch/3pD7Swn8AV/
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    3. Vivid image of police drills, and over 5,000 images of persons taken at detention centers/police stations, 2,884 of them are interned. 4. Spreadsheets showing vast scale of internments: over 12% of adult population of Uyghur county in 2018 shown in camps or prisons.
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    Replying to @adrianzenz
    The youngest person confirmed to be in a re-education camp is Rahile Omer, age 14 when she was detained, nearly age 15 when her image was taken by the police.
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    The Dutch government has launched a recall of 100,000s of masks purchased from China because they do not meet quality standards and offer inadequate protection.
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    State of the Uyghur cause summarized in one image.
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    Replying to @ChineseEmbinUS
    You are committing genocide.
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    Replying to @adrianzenz
    I am please to have my authentication and analyses published peer reviewed by JEACS: journals.univie.ac.at/index.php/jeac… (download links for material are being fixed) Big thanks to @sascha_kb for his dedication and assistance, and to the peer reviewers.
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    BREAKING: the first-ever leak of "Top Secret" remarks by a Chinese head of state shows how Beijing is behind nearly every aspect of the atrocities in Xinjiang: Internments / forced labor / birth control & reducing Uyghur population shares / big data policing / boardng schools/1
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    Replying to @adrianzenz
    You can view and download many of the files, documents and nearly 2,900 images of detained persons from the #XinjiangPoliceFiles website: xinjiangpolicefiles.org
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    Breaking: The UK is reported to end the use of Huawei technology in its 5G network as soon as this year because of security concerns.
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    BREAKING: U.S. to block import of ENTIRE Xinjiang supply chains involving cotton, yarn, textile, tomato products etc. over forced labor allegations! Confirmed by CBP official! This is absolutely HUGE (esp. cotton)! reut.rs/2FcUf0D