Erik Prince the founder of Blackwater USA which is infamous for its actions in Iraq. Which among other incidents involved a mass killing in a public square in Baghdad. Several of those involved were convicted of killing, among others, two Reuters Journalists. Now he's going to open a training camp in Xinjiang. a Provence in Western China which is home a large Muslim minority. China has, in recent years gone to extreme measures to suppress the population with internment camps.
Deal is controversial because of sweeping security crackdown that has detained one million Muslims
Deal is controversial because of sweeping security crackdown that has detained one million Muslims
A Hong Kong-listed security firm run by Erik Prince has signed a deal with authorities in China to build a training centre in Xinjiang, where Uighur Muslims have experienced a huge security crackdown.
Frontier Services Group, which specialises in providing security and logistics for businesses operating in risky regions, said it had signed a deal to run a training base in the city of Kashgar, according to a statement posted on its Chinese website.
The firm was founded by Erik Prince, a former US Navy SEAL and the brother of US Education Secretary Betsy DeVos.
But its presence in Xinjiang is controversial because of the sweeping security crackdown Chinese authorities have launched in the restive far-western region, including reported mass incarcerations.
Up to one million Uighurs and members of other mostly Muslim minority groups are held in extrajudicial detention in camps in Xinjiang, according to a group of experts cited by the United Nations.
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