'China runs 380 internment camps in Xinjiang'

Australian Strategic Policy Institute's fresh report said that Beijing has built nearly 380 sites as detention centres, prisons or reeducation camps aimed for coercive mind rewiring practices of minorities in the region.

Hyderabad:China is running nearly 380 detention centres in Xinjiang that have been built or expanded since 2017, an Australian think tank said.

The Australian Strategic Policy Institute's 'The Xinjiang Data Project' has claimed that the communist regime runs nearly 380 sites suspected of re-education camps, detention centres and prisons that have been built or expanded since 2017.

Recently, the international community widely condemned China for the mass internment of minorities in the Xinjiang region, regularly pointing out how its 'education and employment' program was essentially religious and cultural cleansing of Uyghurs by banning their practices, beliefs and subjecting them to surveillance and forced sterilisation of women.

Justifying its internment camps for Uyghur Muslims, the Chinese Communist Party regime had admitted that it has subjected, on an average of around 1.3 million people to re-education since 2014.

The Xi Jinping government issued a 'white paper' earlier this month titled 'Employment and Labour Rights in Xinjiang' published by its State Council Information Office. Though the paper used euphemisms like "vocational training centres" for concentration camps and "education and employment training" for coercive mind rewiring practices and human rights abuse, it blamed Islamist radicalism for its policies.