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Secret Documents Reveal How China Mass Detention Camps Work

Associated Press

   The Chinese government has detained more than a million Uighurs,
   Kazakhs and other ethnic minorities for what it calls voluntary job
   training. But a newly revealed classified blueprint shows that the
   camps Beijing runs in China's far west are instead secret centers for
   forced ideological and behavioral re-education.

   The confidential documents, leaked to a consortium of international
   journalists, lay out the Chinese government's deliberate strategy to
   lock up minorities, most of whom are Muslims, to rewire their thoughts
   and even the language they speak.

   The documents stipulate watch towers, double-locked doors and blanket
   video surveillance "to prevent escapes." They describe an elaborate
   scoring system that grades detainees on how well they speak the
   dominant Mandarin language, memorize ideology and adhere to strict
   rules on everything down to bathing and using the toilet.

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