Uighur Detention Camps

You are an ethic and religious minority, forced from your home to a desolate and cramped political "reeducation" camp. There are thousands of you there. You have not been charged with any crime, and many have already been there for many months. You have no idea how long you'll be here for.

This isn't the beginning of a biography of a Holocaust survivor from 1939, but rather the real life of current Uighur minorities in modern day China, where thousands of them are being separated from their families and detained in these camps to be forcibly assimilated into a single, unitary state. This atrocity is happening almost exclusively in the far western province of Xinjiang. The Uighurs, being a Turkish ethic group that primarily practice Islam, are routinely discriminated against for their appearance and religion, and are being supplanted by Xi Jinping's government by having the majority population, Han Chinese, being brought into the province to have the Uighurs assimilate.


Currently, there are very few options for the Uighurs, as they are not allowed to leave and they can't really resist the power of the Chinese government. There has been outcry from international human rights watchdogs, but currently there isn't much governmental pressure for the Chinese government to change.

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