Imagine fleeing persecution in Xinjiang only to be arrested & imprisoned in Kashmir & after years face deportation back to Xinjiang. Yet that has happened to 3 brothers.

They were described by India's paramilitary border force as “Chinese intruders” & detained in 2013... then in late Dec 22 a PSA (Public safety act) order came through suggesting their deportation back to Xinjiang.

Full story here:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/6/6/uighur-siblings-in-india-jail-since-2013-face-deportation-threat

Related but very relevant to is this article in Made In China Journal by Prof Nitasha Kaul which looks at the parallels & similarities between the two regions & the oppression in them.

https://madeinchinajournal.com/2020/10/05/china-xinjiang-india-kashmir/

For many marginalised groups getting caught between state powers has severe consequences. Other examples are the Rohingya (Caught between Myanmar's genocidal Junta & India's anti-Muslim rhetoric), the Kurds (whom without a recognised homeland struggle for survival in the border regions of Syria, Turkey & Iraq is often desperate & more than once have been used as a tool by the west and then discarded) & many others throughout the world.

With an increasing "Multi-polar" world, this is a prime case study of how it's not going to make things "better" without significant ways of protecting those targeted by state powers otherwise even if said powers are in geopolitical competition, potential overlapping interests in maintaining power will mean groups are transnationally repressed which is already a problem to be honest.

For us as individuals. While our power maybe limited (in comparison to states). We can raise up the voices of those targeted (without siding with any states, like fuck the US, EU, ASEAN as well)