foreign governments and corporations are content to pretend it isn't happening.

5-6-19    It has been two years since the internment camps first came to light internationally, and a series of reports from Xinjiang have made vivid the scale of the abuses.  Yet foreign governments and corporations are content to pretend it isn't happening.

  "If right now just about any other country in the world was found to be detaining over 1 million Muslims of a certain ethnicity, you can bet we’d be seeing an international outcry," says Sophie Richardson, china director for Human Rights Watch.  https://www.axios.com/uighur-muslim-detention-camps-xinjiang-china-7d682095-4dcc-4b7b-8368-09e73ae7178a.html

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-Ethnic Uyghurs take part in a protest march asking the EU to call upon China to respect human rights in East Turkestan and asking for the closure of "re-education centers." Photo: Emmanuel Dunand, AFP

     There are many pretexts for internment, including any kind of overseas connection, such as a relative living outside of China or a short visit to another country, or even the slightest standing as a public figure sharing the Uyghur cultural or scientific experience.  The Uyghur Human Rights Project recently documented nearly 400 Uyghur intellectuals interned, disappeared or imprisoned.  https://theglobepost.com/2019/05/14/china-uyghurs-ramadan/