China Is Detaining Muslims in Vast Numbers. The Goal: 'Transformation'

Monday, 10 September 2018 08:31

Buckley writes: "On the edge of a desert in far western China, an imposing building sits behind a fence topped with barbed wire. Large red characters on the facade urge people to learn Chinese, study law and acquire job skills. Guards make clear that visitors are not welcome. Inside, hundreds of ethnic Uighur Muslims spend their days in a high-pressure indoctrination program."

'That was a place that will breed vengeful feelings,' Abdusalam Muhemet said of the internment camp in Xinjiang, in western China, where he and other Muslims were held for months. (photo: Erin Trieb/NYT)

China Is Detaining Muslims in Vast Numbers. The Goal: 'Transformation'

By Chris Buckley, The New York Times

10 September 18

n the edge of a desert in far western China, an imposing building sits behind a fence topped with barbed wire. Large red characters on the facade urge people to learn Chinese, study law and acquire job skills. Guards make clear that visitors are not welcome.

Inside, hundreds of ethnic Uighur Muslims spend their days in a high-pressure indoctrination program, where they are forced to listen to lectures, sing hymns praising the Chinese Communist Party and write “self-criticism” essays, according to detainees who have been released.

The goal is to remove any devotion to Islam.

Last Updated on Monday, 10 September 2018 09:22

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