China’s Campaign Against the Uighurs Demands a Response
The evidence is mounting of China’s despicable strategy of cultural persecution in Xinjiang Province.
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The world no longer has the excuse of ignorance about the cultural annihilation currently taking place in China’s western Xinjiang Province. Now it has to muster the courage to act on its knowledge.
The evidence is mounting that China is expanding its campaign against the Uighurs, a Turkic-speaking, Muslim minority. Testimonials of survivors describe torture and near-starvation at the province’s so-called “re-education centers.” Investigative reports detail the state’s separation of Uighur children from their families and forced attendance at high-walled kindergartens. Academic research has unearthed state documents showing this campaign is deliberate and escalating.