Wednesday, June 5, 2019

“There are tens of thousands of people there now. They have some problems with their thoughts.”










https://www.france24.com/en/20190510-reporters-plus-surviving-china-uighur-camps-repression  (In Urumqi) “Where have the people gone?”  “The people?” says one.  Bystander says “To Dabancheng.” (some 60 miles southeast of Urumqi, in the desert.)  —at 13:45 of video.
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  But less than three years later, on 22 April 2018, a satellite photo of that same piece of desert showed something new.  A massive, highly secure compound had materialised.  It is enclosed with a 2km-long exterior wall punctuated by 16 guard towers….
  “There are tens of thousands of people there now.  They have some problems with their thoughts.”

  This giant facility would of course fit no objective definition of a school.  In Xinjiang “going to school” has come to take on a meaning all of its own.  https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/China_hidden_camps

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