China Defends Its Internment Camps For One Million Muslims In The West Xinjiang Region

Image from inside one of the "education camps". (Central News Agency)

The Guardian: Internment camps make Uighurs' life more colourful, says Xinjiang governor

China on defensive over camps where ex-prisoners have told of arbitrary detention, abuse and indoctrination.

A senior official in Xinjiang has described mass internment camps for Muslim minorities as “training” and “boarding schools” where residents receive vocational, legal, and language training as well as “de-extremisation education”.

Beijing has faced growing international criticism for its crackdown in Xinjiang, a far north-western territory of China where it holds as many as a million Muslims prisoner in camps. Former detainees have said that they were subjected to political indoctrination and abuse.

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WNU Editor: These are labor camps, not “training” and “boarding schools”. Now that China has admitted their existence and that over 1,000,000 are now prisoners, will the West impose sanctions? My money is that they will

not.

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