CHINA
Mass Incarceration
A United Nations panel slammed China for incarcerating more than 1 million members of the Muslim Uighur ethnic minority in what it described as a “massive internment camp that is shrouded in secrecy.”
As many as 2 million Uighurs and other Muslim minorities may have been forced into “political camps for indoctrination” in the western Xinjiang autonomous region, according to “credible reports” cited by Gay McDougall, a member of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, the Australian Broadcasting Corp. reported.
Earlier, monitoring groups had pegged the numbers in the thousands.
China argues that Islamist militants and separatists plot terrorist attacks and work to sow strife between the Uighurs and Han Chinese in Xinjiang – the northwest Chinese province that borders Afghanistan and Pakistan, among several other countries.
The 50-member Chinese delegation to the Geneva session where McDougall made her remarks didn’t respond to the allegations. But on Monday, English and Chinese editorials in the state-run Global Times said the “high intensity of regulations” in Xinjiang has helped prevent “great tragedy,” Reuters reported.
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