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Thursday, 17 September 2020

Clues to scale of Xinjiang labour operation emerge as China defends camps

Beijing white paper says an average of 1.29 million workers a year have gone through ‘vocational training’ between 2014 and 2019

The Chinese Communist party government has defended its system of internment camps for Uighur and other ethnic minorities in Xinjiang, in a white paper that also revealed some details of the breadth of its labour program.

In the document published on Thursday, Beijing called them “vocational training centres” , saying: “Through its proactive labor and employment policies, Xinjiang has continuously improved the people’s material and cultural lives, and guaranteed and developed their human rights in every field.”

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