World War III (Days Gone Past)

Genocide, concentration camps, and slave labour
Before and during the war, a series of human rights abuses were committed by the government of China against Uyghurs and other ethnic and religious minorities in Xinjiang as genocide. As the war progressed, genocide intensified and Chinese efforts to annihilate entire Uyghur communities intensified, especially after the breakaway state of East Turkestan was established in 2026. By the end of the war, at least three million Uyghurs and other minority people (including Taiwanese and ethnic Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, and other Turkic Muslims, and Western Bloc-POWS, etc) were systematically killed or disappeared, as part of a programme of deliberate extermination, in effect becoming a "genocidal state". It should be noted that the "Three-all" policy of the Chinese government to persecute Muslims and Islamic culture is a continuation of a political campaign for "Sinicization" or assimilation to Han culture which began during the Xinhai Revolution. The Chinese government also carried out forced sterilization of at least 70,000 Muslim and non-Muslim women in Xinjiang.

Prisoners of war in North Korea, as well as those who attempted to rebel against the state in the North Korean Spring, were subjected to unsanitary, life-threatening, and inhumane conditions, with some being forced to work as slave labour under threat of death. Public and secret executions were commonplace, in addition to infantcides, starvation, illnesses, torture, and frequent workplace accidents. An estimated 95,000-100,000 prisoners died in these camps, although the exact number varies.

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United States
In the United States, conscription had been inactive since 1973 following the Vietnam War. Following a referdum by the Biden administration to raise military manpower in Europe, the Middle East, and East Asia, the draft was reinstated and called for the compulsory conscription of men between the ages of 17 and 45 and certain women for militia service. It was introduced to Congress in July of 2022, just two months after the war began in Asia, and was passed in August. The act was administered and enforced by the Selective Service System, in coordination with state agencies, the Defense Department and the various armed services. All 50 states and the District of Columbia had to draft and train men; however, the United States did not have to provide for the conscription of women because of Title 10, Section 3103 of the United States Code. Although the Act was not ratified, it established a legal basis for the conscription of men into the armed forces for the rest of the war.

Those who did not volunteer and were drafted were required to be given a number and registered on a Selective Service Web Site where they could find out their status in the service and if they had been classified as a conscientious objector. Conscientious objectors were offered civilian or military alternatives, but the only ones that carried the least amount of penalty or stigma were those who became non-combat volunteers in the Armed Forces.

Gallery


(American Soldiers South Of Occupied Talliin, Estonia, c. 2025)



(Russian Soldiers Riding On A Tank Through Kiev, Ukraine, c. 2022)



(Destroyed Building After An American Airstrike In Ar Rutbah, Iraq, c. 2023)



(Eastern Bloc Jets Flying Over Damaged Oil Wells In The Middle East, c. 2024)



(Chinese Soldiers On The Beach Of Occupied Taiwan, c. 2024)



(Belarusian Soldiers In The Midst Of A Chemical Warfare Attack, c. 2028)