Controversial Re-Education Camps of Xinjiang

Recently leaked documents of Chinese government described the nature of crackdown on Uighur Muslims in internment camps in Xinjiang, China.

Re-education Camps

• People showing signs of extremism have been sent to these camps.
• The conditions of extremist behaviour are decided by the government on the basis of arbitrary markers like fasting during Ramzan, Eid Greetings, etc.
• China claims that it’s their efforts towards assimilation of the Uighurs.
• However, the underlying cause seems to be the different ethnicity of Uighur Muslims which is closer to the people of Central Asian Republics (CARs) than to China’s majority Han Population.
• Over the past few ....