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August 13, 2018

U.N.: China Is Detaining Over 1 Million Uighurs in Massive Internment Camp
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The United Nations has revealed it has received reports that China is
holding over a million ethnic Uighurs and other Muslim minorities in
what resembles a massive internment camp in the western Xinjiang
autonomous region. According to the group China Human Rights Defenders
more than 20 percent of all arrests in China last year occurred in
Xinjiang even though the region makes up less than 2 percent of China's
population. China has rejected the internment camp reports, but an
editorial in a state-backed newspaper says that China's actions in
Xinjiang have helped prevent the region from becoming "China's Syria" or
"China's Libya."


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