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 ....
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