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The Largest Incarceration of a Minority Group Since the Holocaust: Canada Must Take Action to Stop the Genocide of Uyghurs in China | by Sarah Teich, Daniel Eisen, Mehmet Tohti

By July 25, 2022August 31st, 2024No Comments

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is committing mass atrocity crimes and grave human rights violations against the Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims in Xinjiang/East Turkestan. The surveillance is so pervasive that the region has been described as essentially an open-air prison.

Arbitrary detentions number in the millions, making it the largest incarceration of a minority group since the Holocaust. Physical and sexual torture are widespread, both inside and outside the concentration camps. Medical crimes include measures to restrict births within the group, such as forced sterilization of Uyghur women and girls.