Leaked Chinese government documents show details of Xinjiang clampdown - NYT

[TomSea]

Leaked Chinese government documents show details of Xinjiang clampdown - NYT

BEIJING (Reuters) - A trove of leaked Chinese government documents reveals details of its clampdown on Uighurs and other Muslims in the country’s western Xinjiang region under President Xi Jinping, the New York Times reported on Saturday.

United Nations experts and activists say at least 1 million Uighurs and members of other largely Muslim minority groups have been detained in camps in Xinjiang in a crackdown that has drawn condemnation from the United States and other countries.

The documents, which the newspaper said were leaked by “a member of the Chinese political establishment,” show how Xi gave a series of internal speeches to officials during and after a 2014 visit to Xinjiang following a stabbing attack by Uighur militants at a train station that killed 31 people.

Read more at: https://af.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idAFKBN1XR04S

I vaguely heard about this earlier, the New York Times actually got what look like confidential documents of the Chinese government which by itself is a bit mind-blowing.

So, all of the reporting, really is the Times, Mother Jones published a story sourcing the NYT article as well:

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/11/new-york-times-china-leaks-crackdown-muslims-uighurs-xi/

And apparently, the original NYT article: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/11/16/world/asia/china-xinjiang-documents.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytimes

[PeteS in CA]

I had seen, years ago, reports of unrest among some Muslims in western China but didn't mentally tie that to the recent "reeducation" efforts in Xinjiang Province. More recently I've seen news reports that one or more majority-Muslim people groups other than Uighurs were being affected in neighboring Gansu Province.