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Who do I believe, a random smug lemmier, or a well sourced wikipedia article?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uyghur_genocide
That article is a masterclass in laundering false information to make propaganda palatable to impressionable people. From the very first paragraph it regurgitates false information. The funny thing is that the claim that more than one million Uyghers are interned does have a source, but they didn't specify it. Probably because the source's reliability has been dismantled and they think leaving it out is less blatant. Garbage journalistic standards either way, and obvious dishonest propagandizing. For the rest of the article, we already know the media spread misinformation about Xinjiang. Compiling it in a Wikipedia article does not make it any more legitimate or convincing.
Let's see a source for your argument? The wiki links to journal articles to back up it's claims, what do you have?
The burden of proof is on you to prove that a genocide is actually happening. (One can't prove a negative)
There is a chinese context to it though: https://www.qiaocollective.com/education/xinjiang