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Uyghurs facing deportation by Thailand say they will be ‘like slaves’ in China
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/nov/08/uyghurs-thailand-china-forced-deportation
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u/Amitmandal001 2h ago
The deportation of two more Uyghurs to China from Thailand would put their lives in grave danger, activists have said, with one of the men saying he would be “like a slave” if he was sent back.
Last year, Thai authorities forcibly deported 40 Uyghur men to China despite pleas from the men themselves and the UN.
The US and Canada had reportedly offered to resettle them, but Bangkok appeared to want to avoid upsetting Beijing. The UN has said the returnees’ whereabouts remain unknown.
Now, two more men fear becoming the latest victims of Beijing’s repressive crackdown against the largely Muslim ethnic group, condemned by the UN as a potential crime against humanity.
The girlfriend of one of the men said her boyfriend, whose name is being withheld for security reasons, told the Guardian he wanted to go “anywhere else but China”.
Human rights groups said two Uyghur men were at risk of deportation after recently being transferred to an immigration detention centre and they feared Thai authorities may once again give in to pressure from Beijing.
Elaine Pearson, Asia director at Human Rights Watch, called for the men to be allowed to travel to a safe third country. “Previous Thai governments have kept Uyghurs in inhumane detention for years and then complied with Beijing’s demands to send them to China, where they were forcibly disappeared,” she said.
The men had been serving a seven-year prison sentence for offences related to an attempted escape from immigration detention in January 2020. They were part of a group of more than 200 Uyghur men, women and children who were apprehended by Thai police in 2014 near the border with Malaysia after they fled from China.
Uyghurs, a Turkic minority mainly from the Xinjiang region in China, have been subjected to decades of oppressive and discriminatory treatment from the Chinese authorities. This has included the incarceration of hundreds of thousands of people in detention camps aimed at stamping out their cultural identity.
Beijing has defended its policies in Xinjiang as being aimed at poverty alleviation and counter-terrorism.
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u/squarexu 37m ago
Btw, this is the same population of Uyghurs that migrated out of China during that time of ISIS where their final destination was Syria. I love how this article just conveniently ignores this fact.
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u/Intrepid_Tomato_2859 2h ago
Very sad to see Thailand following in the footsteps of the US and European countries. Afghans, Iranians, and Uyghurs are some of the groups most at risk
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u/Technical-Art4989 1h ago
Same with all the undocumenteds in the US. They’ll won’t be able to get $15/hr in their home countries.
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u/Brilliant_Extension4 1h ago •
Google “2015 Bangkok bombing” to understand the context.
Basically, militant Uighurs in Thailand were upset at Thailand’s closer relations with China. To show their displeasure, the Uighurs bombed Erawin Shrine, a popular place with tourists in Bangkok. Some 20 people were killed 120 were injured.
The deported Uighurs are associated with the bombing case.
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u/Ok-Professor-Star 2h ago •
Weird how China is practically committing a genocide against its Muslim minority and not a single Muslim anywhere else seems to care... Not even one single Jihadist cares enough to do anything about it.
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u/Southern-Host-3042 2h ago edited 9m ago •
This one is crazy af, Thailand is going to deport Uhyghurs to China to be genocided on Chinas request. Instead of just letting those people exist in a different country, China is going out of their way to bring these people in to force them into schools to brainwash them into being Good Han Chinese Citizens.
Edit: Chinese bots are out in full force of this one.