When officials were told to “strike hard” in 2014, the Chinese government swept up about a million Uyghurs and other local ethnic minorities into mass detention camps.
Chinese President Xi Jinping called on Xinjiang officials to further encourage assimilation of Muslims and curtail illegal religious activities during a visit to the autonomous region Saturday.
“It’s quite striking how this time security and stability seem to take a sort of increased importance again,” said Adrian Zenz, director and senior fellow in China studies at the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation. “This kind of reiteration clearly reminds officials that the security challenge in Xinjiang is not over.”
After that, the Chinese government swept up an estimated 1 million Uyghurs and other local ethnic minorities into mass detention camps for offences as trivial as having a beard or downloading certain apps to phones.
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