Very kind of you to send me media reports - I've seen them all and I've read many academic reports on the topic too - the only thing I can say is that they, and you, are wrong.

There are three sources of information on Uyghurs and every single media report you have read is amplifying one or more of them

ASPI - a weapons manufacturing funded think tank in Australia who have been caught lying several times, including by me and not one of their analysts has set foot in Xinjiang but analysed everything based on satelite imageray analysed by a 22 year old who had not even graduated from college at the time he became famous - he's not only never set foot in Xinjiang he's never set foot in China - there are more, I could go on about all the lies I've caught ASPI in but this will make the response too long.

Adrian Zenz - a religious zealot (by his own admission) who is on a mission fromn his god to destroy the Communist party and is funded by the NED to do so

Uyghur dissidents who have left China with their passports and their visas in passports issued by China to allow them to freely travel

If you think these three sources are credible, we could debate all night why I disagree with you but if you read a few academic reports, a few personal views and if you stop trusting these people who are paid to have a different story and then contemplate why I, who gets paid nothing for my story have a different opinion on this then we can have that debate - if you think I'm lying, then just say so and we're done, if you think I have some credibility, let's go on with the discussion and I will link you to many academic reports, media reports and personal reports on Xinjiang which all disagree with the three sources mentioned above.

Also, if you can find anything other than the three sources above, let me know - I have been studying and analysing this story for three years now and I can't - everything stems back to ASPI, Zenz, NED and NED sponsored dissidents, not one of whom has ever been sworn under oath to tell the truth and many of whom have been caught in lies.

Are you aware that even now - today, there are 13 Consular Generals touring the region ? more than 30 Islamic Leaders have visited the region and more than 200 journalists have visited there too - all of these you will say are getting guided tours but if you think several hundred intrelligent people can't find the truth and report it, then you're really not being very smart - they may be guided and they may get a stage managed tour but they're still in the region and seeing people there - many of them will go to prayers at one of the 24,000 mosques in the region too. If this is a "Potemkin Village" it's of such massive proprotions that it encompasses a region larger than Germany and France combined and I've cycled across it twice so, yes, I do believe what I have seen - have I seen prisons? yes I have but I saw them in Australia and the UK where I worked in the security industry and the police service for most of my adult life - I didn't see a single prison in Xinjiang, although I wasn't lookg for them and I am certain they were there, the few places that Nathan Ruser ASPI's staellite analyst referred me to were not prisons, they are factories or schools which have slightly more sceurity than would be expected but were not abnormal in China where guards, fences, dormitories and staff uniforms are omnipresent.

In short, most of the stories come from misunderstandings of both culture and the reality of a strained region which most people fail to realise borders Afghanistan and, which most poeple don't realise harboured many suicidal extremists before the Chinese government acted out of necessity to prevent more deaths through terrorism

Finally - if there's a genocide going on, how did the population rise?

If there's oppression going on, how did the economy, and it's exports rise?

If there is persecution, where are the bodies and the maimed or damaged victims?

Answer those questions, not to me, but to yourself and you might have a decent debate about this topic.

In the meantime, go online and read the COWESTPRO Papers for a legal analysis rather than a media opinion