Things are going from bad to potentially far worse in China's western region of Xinjiang.
CASEY MICHEL
JUL 3, 2018, 5:58 PM
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Beijing has begun setting up concentration camps for over a million members of its minority Uyghur population.
In China’s remote western province of Xinjiang, the Chinese government has begun constructing a series of internment camps larger than anything the world currently knows.
Meant to house upwards of a million — and potentially more — of the region’s indigenous Muslim minority, known as Uyghurs, the camps, according to one U.S. commission studying the region, present the “largest mass incarceration of a minority population in the world today.”
And they’re only just beginning.
Technically called “Concentrated Education Transformation Centers” — with one even named, in a manner that would make George Orwell blush, as “the Loving Kindness School” — the camps span Xinjiang, a region known to Uyghurs as East Turkestan. Unsurprisingly, Chinese authorities have revealed little information about the camps: how many people are being detained, what crimes they supposedly committed, and when, if ever, these camps will be dismantled.
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https://thinkprogress.org/we-need-to-start-paying-attention-to-chinas-concentration-camps-41bf34c55cdc/
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