The law is expected to take effect this autumn.

Let’s say better late than never.

  • throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    346·
    1 day ago

    Its forced assimulation just like what the US did to the natives of America. If what the US did was genocide (it is), then what PRC is doing to Xinjiang and Tibet is also genocide.

    • HighFructoseLowStand@lemm.eeEnglish
      64·
      18 hours ago

      I’d swear that there is a message group specifically for .ml users to jump in whenever any criticism is leveled at China.

    • Omega@discuss.onlineEnglish
      174·
      1 day ago

      Fair enough, but the term genocide is far too inclusive, I’ve heard people use cultural genocide instead.

    • LarmyOfLone@lemm.eeEnglish
      1110·
      24 hours ago

      No, “cultural genocide” is not genocide. There is a pretty clear legal definition:

      … any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

      (a) Killing members of the group; (b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; © Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; (d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; (e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

    • BrainInABox@lemmy.mlEnglish
      26·
      23 hours ago

      The difference is that the US did actual genocide against the natives of America