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I think that you should have also presented China's viewpoint because this story is not so simple as it looks at first glance.

For instance, the testimonies of the 'survivors' are constantly changing and their stories are getting darker and darker, so probably they are lying.

Two examples of contradictory testimonies:

1) Tursunay Ziyawudun gave an interview to the Buzzfeed News on February 15, 2020, and she said "I wasn’t beaten or abused": https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/meghara/china-uighur-xinjiang-kazakhstan

Now (in the BBC report), she claims that she was tortured and later gang-raped on three occasions, each time by two or three men.

Also, in the first interview, she told that "Police told the women to take off their necklaces and earrings.", but now she says that her earrings were yanked out, causing her ears to bleed.

2) Sayragul Sautbay told the BBC that "rape was common" and the guards "picked the girls and young women they wanted and took them away".

It's difficult to believe this because in 2018 she gave an interview to the Globe and Mail where she said that she had not personally seen violence, although she had seen hunger and there was no meat to eat: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-everyone-was-silent-endlessly-mute-former-chinese-re-education/

However, even her claim about hunger (in this earlier interview) is very-very doubtful, because in a recent interview she said that they were forced to eat meat: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/12/4/holduighurs-forced-to-eat-pork-as-hog-farming-in-xinjiang-expands

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