The East Turkistan National Awakening Movement, a Washington-based group that seeks independence for the mostly Muslim region known to China as Xinjiang, gave the geographic coordinates of 182 suspected "concentration camps" where Uighurs are allegedly pressured to renounce their culture. Researching imagery from Google Earth, the group said it also spotted 209 suspected prisons and 74 suspected labor camps for which it would share details later. Rights advocates have generally estimated that China is detaining more than one million Uighurs and members of other predominantly Muslim Turkic ethnicities. "East Turkestan organizations outside China have long conducted activities harming China's national security," foreign ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said Wednesday at a regular press briefing. China has justified its policy after first denying the camps, saying that it is providing vocational training and coaxing Muslims away from extremism.

Source: Dhaka Tribune November 13, 2019 16:05 UTC