Yale Global Online: China’s Crackdown on Muslims

China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region—known to some of its residents as East Turkestan—is home to 21 million people, most of whom are Uyghurs, Kazakhs, and others who share the Muslim faith. The region accounts for less than 2 percent of the country's population, and yet 21 percent of all arrests in 2017.

Eric Schluessel, Member in the School of Historical Studies, examines a system of reeducation and detention camps that aims to "cure" Uyghurs, Kazakhs, and other Muslims of their religion in "an increasingly unequal society… one marred by ethnic discrimination and managed by a surveillance regime of unprecedented sophistication."

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