China Is Vacuuming Up DNA Samples From Xinjiang's Muslims

buzzfeed ^ | Megha Rajagopalan

[SauronOfMordor]

As a means of control, it sounds workable. Being able to identify somebody suspected of “crimes against the State” AND know who all his close relatives are as potential targets for reprisals, would do a lot.

I personally think the suicide bombers are depressed, and dying in jihad is the only acceptable way of suicide. If jihad activities mean that every male in your clan is killed, and all the females shipped off to brothels, families might be less enthused about potential jihadis among them.

[SunkenCiv]

That wouldn't work in the US, because it would make it impossible to pass off thugs from, say, Ferguson MO, as "good boys".

[bert]

——the basic privacy rights-—

There is no such right in China.

One wonders if there is really such a right in America.