Researchers at Canada’s Citizen Lab have spotted a phishing campaign and supply chain attack directed at Uyghur people living outside China, and suggest it’s an example of Beijing’s attempts to target the ethnic minority group.
Many Uyghur people, a Muslim ethnic majority, live in China’s Xinjiang province and according to the United Nations are subjected to “serious human rights violations” including arbitrary detention, may be forced not to use their own language, and are subject to discriminatory government policies that create “interlocking patterns of severe and undue restrictions on a wide range of human rights.
You can also see the affects of manual manipulation of wiki entries, ie changing the name to Han or something else completely.
Jhex@lemmy.world 11 months ago
short side observation: how is this any different from the USA today?
RaoulDook@lemmy.world 11 months ago
The difference is that in the USA about 10 million Americans have been out in the streets protesting all of the fascist regime’s abuses. The judicial branch of the US gov’t is also making efforts to block illegal abusive actions with moderate success. The difference is that in the USA we have the rights to fight these things.
Jhex@lemmy.world 11 months ago
well considering the close ressemblance, hope you win
elbarto777@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Hey folks, gather up. This is what a whataboutism in disguise looks like.
Jhex@lemmy.world 11 months ago
If that was my goal, I would not have explicitly pointed out I was making a side observation…
quack@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
It isn’t. But we’re talking about China right now, not the USA
Jhex@lemmy.world 11 months ago
100% I was just shocked at reading that line and being unable to make the distinction