Leadership distributed a classified directive advising local officials to corner returning students as soon as they arrived and keep them quiet. Leaked documents provide an unprecedented inside look at China's crackdown in Xinjiang, in which as a million ethnic Uighurs, Kazakhs and others have been corralled into internment camps and prisons. — The crackdown encountered doubts and resistance from local officials who feared it would exacerbate ethnic tensions and stifle economic growth. Since 2017, authorities in Xinjiang have detained many hundreds of thousands of Uighurs, Kazakhs and other Muslims in internment camps. Both the report and Wang’s confession were read aloud to officials across Xinjiang.

Source: bd News24 November 16, 2019 21:45 UTC