Official documents show equipment specifications that include watchtower guards armed with tripod-mounted military-grade machine guns and sniper rifles. "In 2018, the youngest of these detainees was 15 years old, and the oldest 73 years," he said.ĭescriptions of the highly securitized detention facilities are extensive. In a 56-page piece in the Journal of the European Association for Chinese Studies, Zenz wrote that at one point around 12 percent-or nearly 1 in 8-ethnic minority adults were in detention in Konasheher, a county in southern Xinjiang known in Chinese as Shufu. The sweeping political campaign-ostensibly driven by counterterrorism-peaked in 20, according to Zenz, who believes core policies targeting broadly defined likely extremists will remain in place indefinitely in pursuit of permanent security. The latest documents further corroborate studies that place the number of Uyghurs and other mainly Muslim ethnic minorities detained in Xinjiang at between one to two million since 2017. Shown above are watchtowers on a high-security facility near what is believed to be a re-education camp where mostly Muslim ethnic minorities are detained on the outskirts of Hotan, Xinjiang, China, on May 31, 2019. The Xinjiang police files, a database hack authenticated by researchers including German scholar Adrian Zenz, revealed the systemic nature of China’s mass internment campaign since 2017. Beijing sanctioned him and others in March 2021 for their extensive studies into China's policies in Xinjiang, which rely on internal government documents, witness testimonies, satellite images and investigative reports. Zenz, director of China studies at the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation NGO, is among the leading researchers on the subject. Adrian Zenz, were published on Tuesday as the United Nations' top rights official, Michelle Bachelet, begins a highly watched six-day visit to China to assess its human rights condition.
The Xinjiang police files, authenticated research coordinated by Dr. The files also contain mugshots of more than 2,800 detainees, among them 15 minors.
The file dump, which follows a hack into a Xinjiang police database, includes key speeches by senior officials responsible for running the region's "re-education" camps, which officials in Beijing have described as vocational training centers. A cache of previously unseen police files from Xinjiang has brought to light further details about the Chinese government's systemic internment of Muslims, in what a leading researcher has described as "most likely the largest incarceration of an ethno-religious minority since the Holocaust."
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