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July 9, 2019

Report: China's Separation of Uyghur Children from Families a "Cultural Genocide"
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In China, a new report by the BBC found evidence that authorities are
systematically taking Muslim children-many of them from the Uyghur
community-from their families, in the far western region of Xinjiang.
According to the report, China is rushing to build boarding schools
where children are deliberately removed from their language and culture.
Meanwhile, an estimated 1 million adults from the Uyghur community are
being imprisoned in camps that China claims are "vocational training
centers" designed to combat extremism. Many of the children who have
detained parents or other family members are more vulnerable to removal.
The author of the report concludes that "the evidence points to what we
must call cultural genocide."


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