Xinjiang re-education camps

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The Xinjiang internment camps, also called re-education camps, and officially called Vocational Education and Training Centers by the government of China, were internment camps operated by the government of Xinjiang and the Chinese Communist Party Provincial Standing Committee. The camps were established in 2017 by the administration of CCP general secretary Xi Jinping. Human Rights Watch says that they have been used to indoctrinate Uyghurs since 2017 as part of a "Strike Hard Campaign Against Violent Terrorism", a campaign announced in 2014 after the May 2014 Ürümqi attack. Operations were led by CCP Politburo member and Xinjiang Party secretary Chen Quanguo. The camps were reportedly operated outside the Chinese legal system; many Uyghurs have reportedly been interned without trial and no charges have been levied against them (held in administrative detention). Local authorities were reported to be holding hundreds of thousands of Uyghurs in these camps as well as members of other ethnic...

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