Uyghur Muslim Genocide

  • violent attacks starting

    They started attacking Uyghurs also Han people
  • the beginning

    The year they started reduction camps.
  • drastically increased

    The reduction camps got bigger and "better" in their eyes
  • denial

    The governments denied that the camps ever existed
  • official name

    They gave the camps a name, Vocational Training Centers
  • hostage

    Two Pakistani men went to their embassy in Beijing to lobby for help in reuniting with their wives, who they say are ethnic Uighurs blocked from leaving China.
  • photo evidence

    they got photo evidence of the camps built
  • baby rates

    A new analysis by an Australian said Xinjiang in far western China had the sharpest known decline in birthrates between 2017 and 2019 of any territory in recent history.
  • similarity to holocaust

    The US Holocaust Memorial Museum said it has compiled evidence of increasing government repression against Uyghur Muslims in China’s western Xinjiang region.
  • guilt

    China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi said UN human rights chief Michelle Bachelet can visit Xinjiang, but China does not welcome any investigation based on the presumption of guilt.

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