Uyghurs, E. Turkestan/Xinjiang

What is affected
Type of violation Forced eviction
Dispossession/confiscation
Date 21 September 2015
Region A [ Asia ]
Country China
Location East Turkestan/Xianjing

Affected persons

Total 1000000
Men 0
Women 0
Children 0
Uyghur detainees in “political education camps”
Proposed solution
Details
Development



Forced eviction
Costs

Duty holder(s) /responsible party(ies)

State
Local
Investors in forced labor
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.

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