Beijing is defending itself over allegations that China is holding more than 1 million Muslims in internment camps. What do the reports say? On Friday, vice-chair of the U. N. Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, Gay McDougall, said: “In the name of combating religious extremism and maintaining
Beijing is defending itself over allegations that China is holding more than 1 million Muslims in internment camps.
On Friday, vice-chair of the U. N. Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, Gay McDougall, said: “In the name of combating religious extremism and maintaining social stability (China) has changed the Uighur autonomous region into something that resembles a massive internment camp.”
McDougall cited reports that more that 1 million Uighurs are being detained in the region. The Uighurs, an ethnic Muslim minority, make up about 45 percent of China’s northeast Xinjiang province.
Nongovernment organizations, such as the Chinese Human Rights Defenders, asked the U. N. committee to press Beijing further about reports of “disappearing individuals to force them to undergo ideological ‘re-education.
