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China’s Uyghur detention camps may be the largest mass incarceration since the Holocaust

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China’s Uyghur detention camps may be the largest mass incarceration since the Holocaust
Over the last few years, a network of enormous detention camps has sprung up across China’s remote northern province of Xinjiang. According to the US State Department, the United Nations and other researchers and activists, they may hold at least a million Uighurs, a Muslim minority Beijing seems increasingly determined to strip of freedom and identity. It is almost certainly the largest mass incarceration of a racial or religious group since the Holocaust. And it is neither front-page news nor a major part of diplomatic or political dialogue. In many respects, that is testament to how ruthlessly effective China’s approach...
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