Saturday, December 8, 2018

Has the world abandoned the Uighur Muslims?


We speak to a Uighur refugee, and debate if data theft, interference and illegal spending tainted the Brexit referendum.


Since April 2017, Chinese authorities have arrested at least 800,000 and possibly more than two million Uighurs, ethnic Kazakhs and other members of Muslim minorities in so-called "re-education camps", according to testimony from the United States State Department official, Scott Busby, before Congress on December 4.
The Chinese government initially denied these camps exist. However, they've now legalised them and say these are merely vocational, educational training centres intended to "combat extremism" - despite the fact that some of those arrested are reportedly university presidents or other Communist Party officials. Some say this is one of the world's most ignored human rights crisis.

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