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The Uyghur Emergency: The Causes and Consequences of China's Mass Incarceration of Turkic Muslims
The Chinese government is receiving increased pressure over its archipelago of mass detention camps, holding approximately one million Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (also known as East Turkestan).
Why is China separating Uighur Muslim families? | The Stream
There are credible reports, according to the United Nations, that a million or more Uighur Muslims are being held in what amount to internment camps in China. And now, increasingly, their families are speaking out.
Cracks show in China’s vision for model ethnic unity village
HOTAN UNITY NEW VILLAGE, China (AP) — In this corner of China’s far west, rows of identical white concrete houses with red metal roofs rise abruptly above the sand dunes of the harsh Taklamakan Desert. A Chinese flag flutters above the settlement, and a billboard at the entrance says, “Welcome to the Hotan Unity New Village.”
‘There are no people’: China’s crackdown in the Uyghur heartland
Winter is coming, and farmers in this Uyghur village are busy cutting branches pruned from walnut trees for firewood. The wood is fuel for small metal stoves that heat their mud-and-brick homes.
DOLMA: Reconsider genocidal countries
As Yalies sipped cocktails in Beijing and snapped photos of the Great Wall this summer, the Uyghurs — a Muslim ethnic minority — faced genocidal policies within the same country.
Trump administration weighs sanctions against Chinese officials over internment camps for Uyghurs
The Trump administration is considering sanctions against Chinese senior officials and companies to punish Beijing’s detention of hundreds of thousands of ethnic Uyghurs and other minority Muslims in large internment camps, according to current and former U.S. officials.
Lawmakers Want to Hold China Accountable Over Abuses in Xinjiang. Here's What to Know Play Video
Lawmakers are urging Washington to sanction Chinese officials over possible crimes against humanity the same week that Beijing legalized its policy of mass detentions of Uighur Muslims.
China has just made it legal to isolate its Uighur Muslim minority from society for ‘re-education’
THE CHINESE government has dropped a bombshell.
Wary Of Unrest Among Uighur Minority, China Locks Down Xinjiang Region
At the Xinjiang International Grand Bazaar in the heart of Urumqi, everything is bought and sold from tiny stalls blasting local music, in a square filled with Islamic architecture.
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