Origin from 2017
Beginning in 2017 under regional Communist Party secretary Chen Quanguo, the Chinese government detained an estimated one million or more Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities without trial in a network of facilities it called vocational education and training centers, while an estimated sixteen thousand mosques across the region were razed or damaged. In 2022, the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights assessed that China's policies in Xinjiang may amount to crimes against humanity.
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StatusSuppressed marks a state campaign of mass detention and mosque destruction documented by the United Nations' own 2022 assessment, which stopped short of the word genocide; this atlas does not adjudicate that further question and states only what the assessment itself concluded. Connections
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This source names Uyghurs directly: "an estimated one million or more Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities without trial in a network of facilities it called vocational education and training centers, while an estimated sixteen thousand..."
Source OHCHR Assessment of Human Rights Concerns in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, ChinaUnited Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)
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Source OHCHR Assessment of Human Rights Concerns in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, ChinaUnited Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)
Spread Event Of
Returns to a region Islam reached under the Tang dynasty in 651, the map's own oldest entry in East Asia, now recording the most severe documented restriction on its practice there in the intervening thirteen centuries.
Source OHCHR Assessment of Human Rights Concerns in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, ChinaUnited Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)
Sources
1. OHCHR Assessment of Human Rights Concerns in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China
United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), United Nations Human Rights Office, 2022
Radio Free Asia, "Expert Says 1.8 Million Uyghurs, Muslim Minorities Held in Xinjiang's Internment Camps" (2019)
Radio Free Asia (reporting Adrian Zenz's estimate), Radio Free Asia, 2019View the Source Reader Challenges (0)
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