Uyghur genocide - Wikipedia
The Uyghur genocide is the ongoing series of human rights abuses perpetrated by the government of China against the Uyghur people and other ethnic and religious minorities in and around the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (XUAR) of the People's Republic of China.[1][2][3] Since 2014,[4] the Chinese government, under the direction of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) during the administration of CCP general secretary Xi Jinping, has pursued policies leading to more than one million Muslims[5][6][7][8][9] (the majority of them Uyghurs) being held in secretive internment camps without any legal process[10][11] in what has become the largest-scale and most systematic detention of ethnic and religious minorities since the Holocaust and World War II.[12][13][14][15][16] Thousands of mosques have been destroyed or damaged, and hundreds of thousands of children have been forcibly separated from their parents and sent to boarding schools.[17][18][19]
These policies have been described by critics as the forced assimilation of Xinjiang, as well as an ethnocide or cultural genocide.[20][21][22][23][24][25] Some governments, activists, independent NGOs, human rights experts, academics, government officials, and the East Turkistan Government-in-Exile have called it a genocide.[3][26][27][28][29]
