https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/20/world/asia/china-genocide-uighurs-explained.html
China's leader, Xi Jinping, on a screen in Kashgar, in the Xinjiang region, in 2018. Credit... Ng Han Guan/Associated Press. By Austin Ramzy. Published Jan. 20, 2021 Updated July 27, 2021.

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2021/06/china-draconian-repression-of-muslims-in-xinjiang-amounts-to-crimes-against-humanity-2/
In the 160-page report, 'Like We Were Enemies in a War': China's Mass Internment, Torture, and Persecution of Muslims in Xinjiang, Amnesty International's Crisis Response team released dozens of new testimonies from former detainees detailing the extreme measures taken by Chinese authorities since 2017 to essentially root out the

https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/09/13/chinas-beautiful-xinjiang-continues-oppress-uighurs
Human Rights Council. During his visit to the Chinese province of Xinjiang on August 26, Chinese President Xi Jinping asserted that the predominantly Muslim Uighur region is enjoying some "hard

https://www.rand.org/pubs/articles/2021/chinas-disappeared-uyghurs-what-satellite-images-reveal.html
The facilities that slowed down seemed to be mostly lower-security re-education sites. Those that grew looked more like prisons, with high walls spiked with barbed wire. That may indicate that China's approach shifted in 2019 and 2020, from the short-term detention and re-education of Uyghur people to long-term incarceration.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-57386625
In a report published on Thursday, Amnesty called on the UN to investigate, saying China had subjected Uyghurs, Kazakhs, and other Muslims to mass detention, surveillance, and torture. Agnès

https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/24/china/xinjiang-uyghur-explainer-intl-hnk/index.html
Now, they account for just under half of Xinjiang's total population of 22 million, and many of them live in the southern, rural part of Xinjiang. The region is geographically strategic for Beijing.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/04/12/surviving-the-crackdown-in-xinjiang
As mass detentions and surveillance dominate the lives of China's Uyghurs and Kazakhs, a woman struggles to free herself. By Raffi Khatchadourian. April 5, 2021. After building a new life in

https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/04/15/xinjiang-uyghurs-intentional-genocide-china/
April 15, 2021, 1:14 PM. On his way out of office on Jan. 19, then-U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo issued a determination that China "has committed genocide against the predominantly Muslim

https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/19/us/us-xinjiang-china-genocide-intl/index.html
06:03 - Source: CNN. CNN —. The US has officially determined that China is committing genocide and crimes against humanity against Uyghur Muslims and ethnic and religious minority groups who

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinjiang
Xinjiang, officially the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China (PRC), located in the northwest of the country at the crossroads of Central Asia and East Asia.Being the largest province-level division of China by area and the 8th-largest country subdivision in the world, Xinjiang spans over 1.6 million square kilometres (620,000 sq mi) and

https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/03/23/unesco-ukraine-xinjiang-cultural-destruction/
March 23, 2023, 3:08 PM. Cultural destruction is playing a central role in China's onslaught against Uyghurs in Xinjiang. Since 2017, Chinese authorities have destroyed or damaged approximately

https://www.britannica.com/place/Xinjiang/History
Xinjiang - Uyghur, Silk Road, Turfan: Far to the northwest of the heartland of Chinese civilization, the Xinjiang region was thinly populated by herders and oasis farmers organized into small kingdoms and tribal alliances. A military commandery (duhufu) named Xiyu was set up for the region under the Xi (Western) Han dynasty in 60 bce, with its headquarters at Wulei (now Luntai, in the northern

https://www.ushmm.org/genocide-prevention/countries/china/chinese-persecution-of-the-uyghurs
The Simon-Skjodt Center has determined that there is a reasonable basis to believe the Chinese government is committing crimes against humanity against the Uyghurs. These are serious crimes that inflict severe harm on communities. Perpetrators of atrocity crimes often go to great lengths to hide the nature and extent of their crimes.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/02/11/china-uighurs-genocide-xinjiang/
It was a harsh campaign to forcibly assimilate the local Uyghur population, a mostly Muslim ethnic minority group native to Xinjiang. Scholars estimate that Chinese authorities ultimately detained

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/09/25/world/asia/xinjiang-china-religious-site.html
June 2020. Satellite images by Maxar Technologies. The Chinese authorities have in recent years closed and demolished many of the major shrines, mosques and other holy sites across Xinjiang that

https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/18/china/xinjiang-uyghur-families-china-amnesty-report-exclusive-dst-intl-hnk/index.html
In a report released in March, more than 50 global experts in international law and Xinjiang named China's removal of children from Uyghur families as a violation of the UN Genocide Convention.

https://www.npr.org/2022/09/01/1120457174/un-report-says-china-may-have-committed-crimes-against-humanity-in-xinjiang
A crackdown in the Chinese region of Xinjiang (sheen-jang) may constitute crimes against humanity. That's according to a long-delayed United Nations human rights report.

https://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/china401/facts.html
People. In 1949, when the communists first took power, more than 90 percent of Xinjiang's population was Uighur and about 5 percent was Han, from China's largest ethnic group. However, government

https://www.asianstudies.org/publications/eaa/archives/the-travel-records-of-chinese-pilgrims-faxian-xuanzang-and-yijing-sources-for-cross-cultural-encounters-between-ancient-china-and-ancient-india/
NOTES. 1. On the exchanges between India and China during the first millennium, see Xinru Liu, Ancient India and Ancient China: Trade and Religious Exchanges, AD 1-600 (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1988); and Tansen Sen, Buddhism, Diplomacy, and Trade: The Realignment of Sino-Indian Relations, 600-1400 (Honolulu: Association for Asian Studies and University of Hawai`i Press, 2003).

https://www.npr.org/2022/08/31/1120277763/united-nations-china-xinjiang-human-rights-report
The United Nations' human rights chief has released a long-delayed report on abuses in China's Xinjiang region, despite substantial pressure from Beijing to block the report for the better part of

https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/16/china/beijing-xinjiang-uyghurs-propaganda-intl-hnk-dst/index.html
China's Foreign Ministry this month issued the most forceful defense of its policies in Xinjiang to date, calling allegations of "genocide" in the region the "lie of the century."

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/chinas-xinjiang-battles-harshest-cold-spell-over-six-decades-2024-02-19/
Temperatures broke a 64-year-old record in China's far western region of Xinjiang, plunging to a bone-chilling minus 52.3 degrees Celsius (minus 63.4 degrees Farenheit) amid a cold spell and

https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/09/asia/china-uyghurs-xinjiang-genocide-report-intl-hnk/index.html
The Chinese government's alleged actions in Xinjiang have violated every single provision in the United Nations' Genocide Convention, according to an independent report by more than 50 global