Uighurs and Muslims in China

What is happening?

Uighur and Kazakh people in the Xinjiang region of China have been getting detained and forced into what the Chinese government calls "re-education camps". These camps aim to eradicate their traditions, language, religion, and way of life. The government claims they aim to  Former prisoners and sources report prisoners being forced to eat pork, drink alcohol, recite communist Chinese teachings, mass sterilization, work and etc. This is ethnic cleansing and can also be identified as modern day genocide.

Sources and More Articles: 

Washington Post

BBC

Foreign Policy

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