I remember one of the episodes of either "Breaking History" on Badlands or the video on the brief history of the Middle East talking about how the reason the CCP cracked down on the Uighurs has something to do with the CIA using them to launch terrorist attacks on China many years back. This is now the second time that I've ever heard of this, wondering if they used the same source or if this is just something that was memory holed way back and everyone assumes the Uighur are totally innocent.
"Chinese Chechnya."
Interesting that they were apparently able to monitor and avoid what I suppose we had nurtured in Chechnya?
I remember one of the episodes of either "Breaking History" on Badlands or the video on the brief history of the Middle East talking about how the reason the CCP cracked down on the Uighurs has something to do with the CIA using them to launch terrorist attacks on China many years back. This is now the second time that I've ever heard of this, wondering if they used the same source or if this is just something that was memory holed way back and everyone assumes the Uighur are totally innocent.
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