Recent revelations fromdrone footageshowing large groups of Uighurs, an eleven-million strong Muslim Turkic ethnic minority in China, being forcibly transported to unknown locations, are just the latest in a series of disturbing reports out of China about the abhorrent treatment of the Uighur population by Beijing’s government.
In the past few months alone, horrific details have trickled out about the treatment of Uighurs interned in so-called “re-education” camps, which some experts have categorized as “concentration camps,” in China’s Xinjiang province. According to camp escapees and human rights groups, the over one-million imprisoned Uighurs have been subjected to a variety of human rights abuses, including mass sterilization, forced birth control tactics, rape, torture, and forced labor to produce goods sold internationally (including N95 masks).