As what seems to be a follow-up to the story yesterday by Marco Rubio, BBC and the Reuters have both picked up a story saying a million Uighurs are in camps run by China's central government. The information comes from the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. China denies that any such camps exist.
A million people are too hard to hide. We should probably believe the Uighurs and the UN on this one, and wonder why the Chinese don't own up to having this large number in 're-education' camps. People in these camps are said to be poorly fed and housed, tortured, and forced to chant slogans of loyalty to the Party. This sounds more like Stalin or Mao than anyone recent, but it must not be enough to monitor everyone in the region as those individuals have been. They are watched all the time. Their travel is controlled. There are profiles prepared on anyone with an inclination to speak up on the kind of overkill being used on them every day. The Chinese are not particularly fond of Muslims, or anyone with a professed religion that they can call extreme. So, in the name of religious extremism they press hard to make sure these people do not cause trouble.
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