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TheXinjiang internment camps,[a] officially calledXinjiangVocational Education and Training Centers (Chinese: 新疆职业技能教育培训中心[3]) by the government ofChina,[4][5][6][7] areinternment camps run by theXinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region government and itsChinese Communist Party (CCP).
Human Rights Watch says that they have been used to imprisonUyghurs and other Muslims since 2017 as part of a "people's war onterror," a policy announced in 2014.[8] The camps have been criticized by many countries and human rights organizations for alleged human rights abuses.[9][10]
The Subcommittee heard that the Government of China has been employing various strategies to persecute Muslim groups living in Xinjiang, including mass detentions, forced labour, pervasive state surveillance and population control. Witnesses were clear that the Government of China's actions are a clear attempt to eradicate Uyghur culture and religion. Some witnesses stated that the Government of China's actions meet the definition of genocide as set out in Article II of the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (Genocide Convention).
