{"id":86863,"date":"2019-11-24T17:32:35","date_gmt":"2019-11-24T22:32:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=86863"},"modified":"2019-11-24T17:34:45","modified_gmt":"2019-11-24T22:34:45","slug":"guardian-allow-no-escapes-leak-exposes-reality-of-chinas-vast-prison-camp-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=86863","title":{"rendered":"(Guardian) ‘Allow no escapes’: leak exposes reality of China’s vast prison camp network"},"content":{"rendered":"

The internal workings of a vast chain of Chinese internment camps used to detain at least a million<\/a> people from the nation\u2019s Muslim minorities are laid out in leaked Communist Party documents published on Sunday.<\/p>\n

The China Cables, a cache of classified government papers, appear to provide the first official glimpse into the structure, daily life and ideological framework behind centres in north-western Xinjiang region that have provoked international condemnation<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Obtained by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ)<\/a> and shared with the Guardian, the BBC and 15 other media partners, the documents have been independently assessed by experts who have concluded they are authentic. China said they had been \u201cfabricated\u201d.<\/p>\n

However, the documents are consistent with mounting evidence that the country runs detention camps that are secret, involuntary and used for ideological \u201ceducation transformation\u201d.<\/p>\n

When reports surfaced of mass internments without trial, authorities in Beijing initially denied<\/a> the existence of the detention centres, whose inmates are mostly Uighurs<\/a> and other ethnic minorities.<\/p>\n

Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Possibly the biggest human rights scandal of our age. No other words.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe internal workings of a vast chain of Chinese internment camps used to detain at least a million people from the nation\u2019s Muslim minorities.\u201dhttps:\/\/t.co\/gP3MqgUwGi<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Duncan Morrow (@duncan_morrow) November 24, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n