State Dep't: 800K to 2 Million Muslims Forced Into 'Internment Camps' in Communist China
(CNSNews.com) -- The U.S. State Department, echoing reports by human rights groups and some news media, reported that between 800,000 and 2 million Muslims have been forced into "internment camps" in Communist China where they are reeducated "to erase religious and ethnic identities." Many of the Muslims' children are shipped off to orphanages by the authorities.
Commenting on the situation, the director of the State Department's Human Rights and Democracy Bureau, Michael Kozak, said last week, "For me, you haven't seen things like this since the 1930s," a reference to the internment camps of Nazi Germany and the gulag prisons of the Soviet Union.
“Rounding up, in some estimations ... in the millions of people, putting them into camps, and torturing them, abusing them, and trying to basically erase their culture and their religion and so on from their DNA," he said. "It’s just remarkably awful. It is one of the most serious human rights violations in the world today."
Satellite image of an internment camp in China. (Screenshot: YouTube, BBC News)
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