incarcerated more than an estimated one million Turkic Muslims without any legal process in internment camps.
since 2017, some sixteen thousand mosques have been razed or damaged
hundreds of thousands of children have been forcibly separated from their parents and sent to boarding schools
arbitrary detention of Uyghurs in state-sponsored internment camps, forced labor, suppression of Uyghur religious practices, political indoctrination, severe ill-treatment, forced sterilization, forced contraception, and forced abortion
from 2015 to 2018, birth rates in the mostly Uyghur regions of Hotan and Kashgar fell by more than 60%
the Chinese government breached every article in the Genocide Convention
credible reports of mass deaths under the mass internment drive, while Uighur leaders were selectively sentenced to death or sentenced to long-term imprisonment.
reported that the Chinese government gave explicit orders to “eradicate tumours”, “wipe them out completely”, “destroy them root and branch”, “round up everyone”, and “show absolutely no mercy”, in regards to Uyghurs
camp guards reportedly follow orders to uphold the system in place until “Kazakhs, Uyghurs, and other Muslim nationalities, would disappear…until all Muslim nationalities would be extinct”
“Internment camps contain designated “interrogation rooms” where Uyghur detainees are subjected to consistent and brutal torture methods, including beatings with metal prods, electric shocks, and whips.”
evidence of atrocities in Xinjiang “likely meets the requirements of the following crimes against humanity: persecution, imprisonment, enforced disappearance, torture, forced sterilisation, and enslavement” and that “It is arguable that genocidal acts have occurred in Xinjiang, in particular acts of imposing measures to prevent births and forcible transfers.”
some academics and researchers have also termed the abuses as part of an ongoing project of Han settler colonialism
rape and torture were commonplace and that authorities forced detainees to take a medicine that left some individuals sterile or cognitively impaired.
standard Uyghur language textbooks used in Xinjiang since the early 2000s were outlawed and their authors and editors sentenced to death or life imprisonment on separatism charges. The textbooks had been created and approved by relevant government officials
A reminder:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uyghur_genocide