re-education archipelago is adding islands even faster than the South China Sea.

5-31-18    

   Under a new party boss, Chen Quanguo, appointed in 2016, the provincial government has vastly increased the money and effort it puts into controlling the activities and patrolling the beliefs of the Uighur population.  Its regime is racist, uncaring and totalitarian, in the sense of aiming to affect every aspect of people’s lives.  It has created a fully-fledged police state.  And it is committing some of the most extensive, and neglected, human-rights violations in the world.

The government is building hundreds or thousands of unacknowledged re-education camps to which Uighurs can be sent for any reason or for none.  In some of them day-to-day conditions do not appear to be physically abusive as much as creepy.  One released prisoner has said he was not permitted to eat until he had thanked Xi Jinping, the Chinese president, and the Communist Party. But there have been reports of torture at others.  In January, 82-year-old Muhammad Salih Hajim, a respected religious scholar, died in detention in Urumqi.

Kashgar, the largest Uighur city, has four camps, of which the largest is in Number 5 Middle School.  A local security chief said in 2017 that “approximately 120,000” people were being held in the city.  In Korla, in the middle of the province, a security official recently said the camps are so full that officials in them are begging the police to stop bringing people.

As a result, more and more camps are being built: the re-education archipelago is adding islands even faster than the South China Sea. 
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8-10-2018   GENEVA (Reuters) -     A United Nations human rights panel said on Friday that it had received many credible reports that 1 million ethnic Uighurs in China are held in what resembles a “massive internment camp that is shrouded in secrecy.”...The allegations came from multiple sources, including activist group Chinese Human Rights Defenders, which said in a report last month that 21 percent of all arrests recorded in China in 2017 were in Xinjiang.  https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-rights-un/u-n-says-it-has-credible-reports-that-china-holds-million-uighurs-in-secret-camps-idUSKBN1KV1SU
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