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US Security Adviser Decries World Silence on China Camps

Associated Press

   HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA - President Donald Trump's new national security
   adviser is criticizing what he says is silence from the rest of the
   world about China's confinement of more than 1 million Muslims in
   re-education camps, linking the lack of a global outcry to China's
   economic clout.
   National security adviser Robert O'Brien also questioned whether
   international leaders will stand up if Beijing carries out a Tiananmen
   Square-style crackdown on the pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong.
   O'Brien met with journalists and was interviewed by a moderator at the
   Halifax International Security Forum on Saturday.

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   "Where is the world? We have over a million people in concentration
   camps," O'Brien said. "I've been to the genocide museum in Rwanda. You
   hear `never again, never again is this going to happen,' and yet there
   are re-education camps with over a million people in them."
   O'Brien said the lack of criticism is especially surprising from
   Islamic states.
   China is estimated to have detained up to 1 million minority Muslim
   Uighurs in prisonlike detention centers. The detentions come on top of
   harsh travel restrictions and a massive state surveillance network
   equipped with facial recognition technology.

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