China running more Uighur camps than known
An ethnic Uighur woman and child in their home in Turpan, Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Province, China. The Uighurs, a Muslim ethnic minority group in China, make up about 40% off the nearly 22 million people in Xinjiang and face persecution from Beijing. – EPA pic, November 13, 2019.
UIGHUR activists said yesterday they have documented nearly 500 camps and prisons run by China to detain members of the ethnic group, alleging that Beijing could be holding far more than the commonly cited figure of one million people. The East Turkistan National Awakening Movement, a Washington-based group that seeks independence for the mostly Muslim region known to China as Xinjiang, gave the geographic coordinates of 182 suspected “concentration camps” where Uighurs are allegedly pressured to renounce their culture.
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