Given the recent fight over whether US refugee-detention centers are "concentration camps," the Trump administration might want to borrow a page from the Chinese and simply call them "vocational-skills-education-training centers." That way, no one would really care at all.
That's what the Chinese call their gulag archipelago of internment and re-education camps in Xinjiang province, where an estimated 1 million ethnic Uighurs and other Turkic people are being held. The Uighurs are a traditionally Muslim minority, and Beijing says they pose a major threat because of Islamic terrorism. The reality is that the Chinese fear separatist movements, Islamic or otherwise, in a resource-rich region three times the size of France.
As a result, the regime is pursuing the largest attempt at cultural annihilation in the 21st century. Religion is heavily regulated throughout China, but it is brutally policed in Xinjiang.
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