They are the latest to shed light on Beijing's crackdown on Uyghurs, the Turkish-speaking and Muslim minority in the gigantic province of Xinjiang, located in the far west of China. The
Xinjiang papers
, published on November 29 by German anthropologist Adrian Zenz, provide a series of details on the vast re-education campaign led by the Chinese Communist Party, during which more than a million members of the Chinese Communist Party have disappeared since 2016. ethnic groups in camps, according to NGOs. Insisting on describing them as
"schools"
, Beijing justifies them in the name of the fight against
"terrorism"
and
"separatism",
in response to clashes between Uyghurs and Hans
(the majority ethnic group, Editor's note)
in Urumqi (Xinjiang) and a knife attack at Kunming station (Yunnan) which left 31 dead in 2014.
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The 317 pages were transmitted in September by an anonymous source to the Uyghur court, an independent minority advocacy body.
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