Cultural Genocide in Xinjiang

Beginning in 2017, the Chinese government has been accused of systematic detention of more than 1.5 million majority-Muslim Uyghur people in Xinjiang. The Chinese government has branded the detention as voluntary "vocational education and training." However, survivors tell a harrowing story: deceived, arrested, imprisoned without charge for years, beaten, and forced to renounce their religion.

The crimes against Humanity, committed by the government of People's Republic of China in Xinjiang, are corroborated by first-hand account of survivors, News reports by the BBC, and official investigations by the United Nations and the US government. Please see below for some credible sources publicly and freely available.

First-hand Account

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How I survived a Chinese ‘re-education’ camp for Uyghurs

The long read: After 10 years living in France, I returned to China to sign some papers and I was locked up. For the next two years, I was systematically dehumanised, humiliated and brainwashed

The GuardianGulbahar Haitiwaji

In the News:

How us UK residents can be implicitly guilty in forced labor in Xinjiang:

‘Italian’ purees likely to contain Chinese forced-labour tomatoes

Some products described as “Italian” appear to contain Chinese tomatoes, BBC investigation suggests.

BBC News

When a Xinjiang provincial police server was hacked, thousands of mugshots and a shoot-to-kill policy against escape attempts were found:

The faces from China’s Uyghur detention camps

Thousands of photos from a data hack of police files, reveal the human cost of China’s Uyghur detention system.

BBC News

Official Reports

By United Nations:

https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/documents/countries/2022-08-31/22-08-31-final-assesment.pdf

By US government:

https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/NIC-Unclassified-Report-Uyghur-Genocide-Concentrated-Reeducation-Camps-China-Oct2024.pdf

According to the Chinese government

The camps, according to the P.R.C embassy in Washington, are 'wonderful':

So-called “re-education camps”_Embassy of the People’s Republic of China in the United States of America