Over the past decade, the People’s Republic of China has intensified its draconian repression of the Uyghurs, a Turkic ethnic group with origins in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. Also referred to as the Uyghur Region or East Turkestan, it is home to an estimated twelve million Uyghurs.
Since China began its policy of mass internment in 2017, an estimated two million Uyghurs have been arbitrarily detained in state-run internment camps, where they are subject to political indoctrination, torture, organ harvesting, and forced repudiation of their religious and ethnic identities. According to the United Nations, these abuses may constitute crimes against humanity. Several governments, including the United States , have determined that China is actively committing genocide agai