“It was of absolutely no use,” said Omurbek Eli, a Kazakh businessman, of his time held in a camp in 2017. In another report, an official near Hotan described holding a village meeting to calm distraught relatives of those sent to the camps. The mass internments also break Uighur families by forcing members to disown their kin or by separating small children from their parents. “Their children would come and say, ‘Mother, I miss you,’” she said. “We didn’t say anything,” she added, “because there was a camera inside the cell.”

Source: New York Times September 08, 2018 13:18 UTC