A drone video appearing to show hundreds of blindfolded men being led from a train in China has raised new concerns over the ongoing crackdown on Muslim Uyghurs in the far western region of Xinjiang.
The video -- which was posted online anonymously last week -- shows hundreds of men, most of whom are dressed in purple and orange vests with the words"Kashgar Detention Center" printed on them, seated in rows on the ground of what appears to be a large courtyard outside a train station. Their heads are shaved and their hands bound behind their backs.
CNN captures rare images China doesn't want you to see 06:11Evidence points to XinjiangA western intelligence official told CNN they believed the video was authentic."China needs to be challenged for this behavior," the official said."So many countries support China on human rights without understanding that it appears to be attempting to wipe out the entire Uyghur identity.
Uyghurs plead for answers about family in China 03:39'That used to be me'For two former detainees in Xinjiang, the video was strikingly familiar. Amanzhan Seiit, a Muslim ethnic Kazakh, said he was detained in China in 2018, but was never told what for. After several weeks in one camp, he said he was moved to another in a fashion exactly the same as shown in the video. "We were made to sit just like that," he told CNN.
The people affected by detention camps in China 04:55Restricted regionBeijing has had a long and fractious history with Xinjiang, a massive, nominally autonomous region in the far west of the country that is home to approximately 22 million of the about 1.4 billion people living in China.The predominantly Muslim Uyghurs are ethnically distinct from the country's majority ethnic group, the Han Chinese.
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