On the streets of historic Kashgar, a desert oasis in Western China known as the cradle of Uyghur culture, a brand new “Ancient City” is in the midst of a tourist boom.
For several years, the region of Xinjiang has been shut off from most of the world’s media, amid a highly secretive government campaign to stamp out extremism amongst the Uyghur population and other Muslim minorities.
When a knife and explosive attack on Urumqi train station overshadowed President Xi Jinping’s trip to the province in 2014, he ordered officials to “strike hard” against terrorism.
Since then, a chorus of academics, researchers, journalists and legal scholars have meticulously documented widespread abuses at the hands of the government, including mass internment camps, forced labour and birth prevention policies.
Describing such claims as “absurd”, Peter Irwin said the UHRP has documented the destruction of thousands of mosques and upwards of 1,500 cases of Uyghur Imams and other religious figures who have been detained or disappeared.
The Chinese Communist Party’s big tourism push for Xinjiang is another blow to members of the Uyghur community around the world who have been unable to speak to their families back home, let alone visit them.
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On the streets of historic Kashgar, a desert oasis in Western China known as the cradle of Uyghur culture, a brand new “Ancient City” is in the midst of a tourist boom.
For several years, the region of Xinjiang has been shut off from most of the world’s media, amid a highly secretive government campaign to stamp out extremism amongst the Uyghur population and other Muslim minorities.
When a knife and explosive attack on Urumqi train station overshadowed President Xi Jinping’s trip to the province in 2014, he ordered officials to “strike hard” against terrorism.
Since then, a chorus of academics, researchers, journalists and legal scholars have meticulously documented widespread abuses at the hands of the government, including mass internment camps, forced labour and birth prevention policies.
Describing such claims as “absurd”, Peter Irwin said the UHRP has documented the destruction of thousands of mosques and upwards of 1,500 cases of Uyghur Imams and other religious figures who have been detained or disappeared.
The Chinese Communist Party’s big tourism push for Xinjiang is another blow to members of the Uyghur community around the world who have been unable to speak to their families back home, let alone visit them.
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