“Cultural cleansing is Beijing’s attempt to find a final solution to the Xinjiang problem,” said James Millward, a China historian at Georgetown University. “The closest analogue is maybe the Cultural Revolution in that this will leave long-term, psychological effects,” Thum said. The new internment system was shrouded in secrecy, with no publicly available data on the numbers of camps or detainees. The police then sent Bekali to a 10- by 10-meter (32- by 32-foot) cell in the prison with 17 others, their feet chained to the posts of two large beds. Internees would wake up together before dawn, sing the Chinese national anthem, and raise the Chinese flag at 7:30 a.m.

Source: National Post May 17, 2018 00:33 UTC