Uyghurs, E. Turkestan/Xinjiang |
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Type of violation |
Forced eviction Dispossession/confiscation |
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Date | 21 September 2015 | ||||||||||
Region | A [ Asia ] | ||||||||||
Country | China | ||||||||||
Location | East Turkestan/Xianjing | ||||||||||
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Forced eviction | |||||||||||
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Brief narrative |
Human Rights Watch, China’s Campaign of Repression Against Xinjiang’s Muslims (2013), https://www.hrw.org/report/2018/09/09/eradicating-ideological-viruses/chinas-campaign-repression-against-xinjiangs; Adrian Zenz, Xinjiang’s System of Militarized Vocational Training Comes to Tibet, China Brief Volume: 20 Issue: 17 (22 September 2020), https://jamestown.org/program/jamestown-early-warning-brief-xinjiangs-system-of-militarized-vocational-training-comes-to-tibet/. Beijing has detained between 1 million and 3 million Uighur people in internment camps, forced people into modern slavery, curtailed the use of our language and religion and destroyed mosques, shrines and graveyards. Children have been taken from their parents and brainwashed, and women have been sterilized. Dolkun Isa, East Turkestan: EU Must Do More to Help Uyghurs, Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (14 September 2020), https://unpo.org/article/22061. | ||||||||||
Costs | € 0 | ||||||||||