{"id":4473,"date":"2018-11-15T17:41:24","date_gmt":"2018-11-15T17:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iuhrdf.org\/en\/2018\/11\/15\/chinas-mass-incarceration-muslims-cannot-be-left-unchallenged\/"},"modified":"2018-11-15T17:41:24","modified_gmt":"2018-11-15T17:41:24","slug":"chinas-mass-incarceration-muslims-cannot-be-left-unchallenged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/chinas-mass-incarceration-muslims-cannot-be-left-unchallenged\/","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s mass incarceration of Muslims cannot be left unchallenged"},"content":{"rendered":"

M<\/span><\/span>ore than 12 million Muslims have effectively been taken <\/span>prisoner<\/span> in their own homeland, an area of north-west China officially referred to as Xinjiang<\/a>, which means \u201cNew Dominion\u201d. For tens of thousands, some estimate as many as one million<\/a>, the imprisonment is literal. Concerned Xinjiang scholars, such as myself, have helped document and expose the crisis unfolding there through simple but tedious research requiring hundreds of hours scouring Chinese government documents and satellite imagery. Partly as a result of these efforts, a network of huge \u201cconcentration re-education <\/a><\/span>cent<\/span><\/a>res<\/a><\/span><\/a>\u201d in the desert has been revealed. Government officials \u2013 who until recently angrily denied their existence \u2013 now insist those <\/span>centres<\/span> are providing essential vocational training for individuals influenced by the so-called \u201cthree evil forces\u201d<\/a> of extremism, radicalism, and terrorism said to threaten stability in the region.<\/span><\/p>\n