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Curse of Being Uyghur Muslims in China's Xinjiang
4 years, 2 months ago

Curse of Being Uyghur Muslims in China's Xinjiang

News 18  

The Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region is China’s largest administrative region in northwestern territory. And while over a million Uyghur and other ethnic Muslims are incarcerated in internment camps, China says ‘sinicisation of Islam’ has matured since it was put forward as a concept by Jinping in 2015. Six months later, in July 2019, China came up with a theory that …

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Australian think tank finds 380 detention camps in Xinjiang
4 years, 3 months ago

Australian think tank finds 380 detention camps in Xinjiang

Associated Press  

CANBERRA, Australia — China appears to be expanding its network of secret detention centers in Xinjiang, where predominantly Muslim minorities are targeted in a forced assimilation campaign, and more of the facilities resemble prisons, an Australian think tank has found. The Australian Strategic Policy Institute used satellite images and official construction tender documents to map more than 380 suspected detention …

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China's still building detention camps in Xinjiang — and they're getting even bigger
4 years, 3 months ago

China's still building detention camps in Xinjiang — and they're getting even bigger

ABC  

China appears to be expanding its network of secret detention facilities for Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities in Xinjiang, despite official claims that all detainees have been released from the camps. Key points: A thinktank says it has identified 380 of China's detention camps in Xinjiang It says at least 60 camps have been expanded, and 14 are still under …

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China Says Xinjiang 'Concentration Camps' Necessitated By 'Islamic Radicalism' of Uyghur Muslims
4 years, 3 months ago

China Says Xinjiang 'Concentration Camps' Necessitated By 'Islamic Radicalism' of Uyghur Muslims

News 18  

Justifying its internment camps for Uyghur Muslims, the Chinese Communist Party regime has admitted that it has subjected, on an average around 1.3 million people to re-education since 2014. Though the paper used euphemisms like “vocational training centers” for concentration camps and “education and employment training” for coercive mind rewiring practices and human rights abuse, it blamed Islamist radicalism for …

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Uyghurs Facing Genocide, World Leaders Need to do More against China's Acts, Says Activist
4 years, 3 months ago

Uyghurs Facing Genocide, World Leaders Need to do More against China's Acts, Says Activist

News 18  

Tragically late, ‘Uyghur’ is a word the world is finally learning to say. “In 1955, it was agreed that the Uyghur region would be autonomous, but the Chinese government has never honoured that agreement.” Hundreds were killed in local uprisings Ghulja in February 1997 and again in 2009. In 2014, a new police state emerged and “since 2017 re-education camps …

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China claims everyone in Xinjiang camps has ‘graduated’
5 years, 1 month ago

China claims everyone in Xinjiang camps has ‘graduated’

Associated Press  

BEIJING — People who were at vocational training centers in China’s far west Xinjiang have all ”graduated” and are living happy lives, an official said Monday. Shohrat Zakir, Xinjiang’s Uighur governor, made the remarks during a press briefing as part of a strident propaganda campaign launched following U.S. Congress’ approval last week of the Uighur Human Rights Policy Act. He …

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China ‘trying to erase Muslim culture and religion’, warns US
5 years, 9 months ago

China ‘trying to erase Muslim culture and religion’, warns US

The Independent  

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