The news follows orders by Chen Quango, the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP’s) Secretary in Xinjiang, to relocate all “orphans” in Xinjiang to state facilities by 2020.
Western countries are looking to Turkey and other members of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) to spotlight what China calls re-education and training facilities in Xinjiang.
The news follows orders by Chen Quango, the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) Secretary in Xinjiang, to relocate all “orphans” in Xinjiang to state facilities by 2020.
Officially known as “Karakoram-2026,” the drills are being held in Korla in the far-western Xinjiang region, one of the few ethnic minority autonomous regions under Beijing’s rule.
The Chinese regime has used the excuse that Xinjiang faces a serious threat from Islamist militants and separatists who plot attacks and stir up tensions with the ethnic Han Chinese majority to crack down on the local population in Xinjiang.
The Chinese regime has used the excuse of potential Islamic threats and ethnic riots to crack down on the local population in Xinjiang.
Muslim majority nations have mostly remained silent over the situation in Xinjiang.
Over the years, Xinjiang has been transformed into a vast security state, packed with police stations, street cameras, and security checkpoints at which electronic identity cards are scanned.
Dozens of Chinese companies are already on the Commerce Department’s "Entity List," though none with an explicit, direct link to the oppression in Xinjiang.
In August, a United Nations human-rights panel estimated that 1 million Uyghurs were currently being held in camps for political indoctrination inside Xinjiang.
Security conditions in Xinjiang outside the camps had also intensified markedly and now bear "a striking resemblance to those inside," Hong Kong-based Human Rights Watch researcher Maya Wang said, based on interviews with 58 former Xinjiang residents
Uyghur and Kazakhstan national Gulbakhar Jalilova, 54, said she witnessed the atrocities during her 15-month internment in an all-female camp in the Xinjiang capital of Urumqi before she was released in September.
"The Chinese government is creating a high-tech police state in [Xinjiang] that is both a gross violation of privacy and international human rights," the letter said.
In Xinjiang, each person is only entitled to buying one.
Such iron-fisted rule of Xinjiang is why locals say protests and unrest have continued to erupt. Hundreds have perished in these conflicts.
It also said Uyghur Muslims were at risk while being detained in “re-education camps” in China’s Xinjiang region.
“We call it an ‘on-demand system,’” Dr.
The United States already bars goods made with forced labor, including a presumption against products from China’s Xinjiang region. The recent tariffs instead hit 60 trading partners for failing to ban or police such goods themselves.
It resumed engagement in November 2023 after the United States removed sanctions on the Chinese Ministry of Public Security’s Institute of Forensic Science for human rights abuses in Xinjiang.
