Uyghur refugee tells of death and fear inside China's Xinjiang camps

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From the article:

Tursun says she and her son are victims of Beijing's growing crackdown on Muslim majority Uyghurs in China's far western Xinjiang region, where a US State Department official says at least 800,000 and possibly up to two million people may have been detained in huge "re-education centers."....

Uyghurs have likened China's campaign against their people to a form of "cultural genocide," with former internment camp detainees describing forced lessons in Communist Party propaganda and region-wide bans on Uyghur culture and traditions.

China has repeatedly denied it is imprisoning or re-educating Uyghurs in Xinjiang, instead saying that it is undertaking voluntary vocational training as part of an anti-extremism program...

"All of us found that we have something wrong with ourselves and luckily enough the Communist Party and the government offer this kind of school to us for free," one Uyghur inmate told journalists during the tour.

To read more of this ongoing repression of a religious minority:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/uyghur-refugee-tells-of-death-and-fear-inside-chinas-xinjiang-camps/ar-BBSryYp?ocid=spartandhp

Some here have asked "what can we do", and the implication, or one implication, is that we should ignore it, or not post about it. But the first step toward solving a problem is admitting that it exists.