Of course it is a thing when the country of their nationality is committing genocide, and an authoritarian government.

> A valid question, but what does that have to do with the ethnic background or citizenship of the distro makers?

Allows security researchers to verify the binaries and/or find intentional backdoors.

> It seems their team is from all sorts of places, although it doesn't exactly say where in the world each of them is located

Lots of words for 'I don't know'. Me neither, that is why I am asking.