{"id":4284,"date":"2018-10-27T09:09:38","date_gmt":"2018-10-27T09:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iuhrdf.org\/en\/2018\/10\/27\/goal-erase-us-how-china-runs-uyghur-concentration-camps-sabika-razviupdated-190918\/"},"modified":"2018-10-27T09:09:38","modified_gmt":"2018-10-27T09:09:38","slug":"goal-erase-us-how-china-runs-uyghur-concentration-camps-sabika-razviupdated-190918","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/goal-erase-us-how-china-runs-uyghur-concentration-camps-sabika-razviupdated-190918\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Goal Is to Erase Us\u2019: How China Runs Uyghur \u2018Concentration Camps\u2019 SABIKA RAZVIUPDATED: 19.09.18"},"content":{"rendered":"
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East Turkestan, a sprawling region which is roughly half the size of India in China\u2019s west, is home to a Turkic-speaking Muslim ethnic minority, called the Uyghurs. The region was annexed by China in 1949 and renamed Xinjiang, literally meaning \u201cnew region\u201d. The authorities in China and the Uyghurs have a long history of discord, but recently, reports of the government detaining Uyghurs in Nazi-style concentration camps have been mounting.<\/span><\/p>\n

A panel of UN human rights experts <\/a>recently said Uyghurs in Xinjiang were being treated as \u201cenemies of the state\u201d and announced that it had received credible reports about the \u201carbitrary and mass detention of almost one million Uyghurs\u201d in \u201ccounter-extremism <\/span>centres<\/span>.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Adil Cinar, a Muslim Uyghur born in Xinjiang, has 61 close family members, relatives and friends who he believes are held in concentration camps. \u201cLast I heard, my brother-in-law was taken from his home and sentenced for 15 years. And my aunt’s husband has already died in the concentration camp on 2 August after being kept there since the beginning of this year,\u201d he tells The Quint<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cMy friend, Asqarturdi, was given a life sentence in 2013, merely because he translated a Turkish book which has religious contents. And my brother-in-law was sentenced for 15 years in May 2018 because he is a friend of Asqarturdi. They shared an apartment when he was a university student in Beijing and in Atush city, Xinjiang. My sister is not even allowed to visit her husband in the prison.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n
Adil Cinar, Uyghur Muslim<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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