China exceeds the size of internment camps in Xinjiang despite global criticism
China exceeds the size of internment camps in Xinjiang despite global criticism
CANBERRA, Australia. Chinese authorities aggressively expanded the scale of internment camps in Xinjiang this year, according to a new study, even as the program of mass arrests of Muslims in the China region began to attract international scrutiny.
An examination of satellite images published on Thursday by intelligence analysts from a group of Australian security experts drew a map of the expansion of 28 detention camps in the quiet border region. Their analysis found that the total surface of these facilities grew more than 465% since the beginning of 2016, with the highest growth in the three months ending in September.
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A satellite image analysis conducted by an Australian think tank identifies 28 facilities in the Xinjiang region of China believed to be part of a mass detention program aimed primarily at Muslims.
The report of the Institute of Strategic Policy of Australia, which provides research for the Australian military, adds new details to a growing body of evidence on one of the greater suppression campaigns in recent years. It shows that the building of the detention centers accelerated at a time when the former detainees or their relatives began to speak and the international media, including The Wall Street Journal, reported the details of the program.
US officials and United Nations experts estimate that hundreds of thousands of people, mainly from the largely Muslim Uighur ethnic group, may have been imprisoned in detention centers. Uighurs living outside China have reported missing relatives, and some say their relatives died in detention or shortly after their release.
While Chinese officials denied the existence of the mass detention program as recently as this summer, in recent weeks, the Xinjiang governor and other officials have represented detention centers as well-equipped vocational schools that are part of a program for eradicate extremist violence who slapped Xinjiang for years.
A spokesman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry declined to comment on the findings of the Australian report, but denied that people were "detained" in the fields of Xinjiang. In a news briefing on Thursday, Lu Kang described the facilities as "training centers" that support local development and help maintain social stability.
China's human rights record will be reviewed next week by a UN panel in Geneva. Before that hearing, the US government UU., As well as other countries, including the Netherlands, Germany, Sweden and the USA. UU., They have raised questions about the situation in Xinjiang. British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt told British lawmakers on Tuesday that he raised Xinjiang with his Chinese counterpart after British diplomats visited the region in August and found that reports of arrests arewidely accurate. "
The Australian think tank compared the rapid expansion of detention centers in Xinjiang to China island construction project In disputed areas of the South China Sea. "The Chinese state has changed the facts on the ground in Xinjiang so dramatically that it has left little time for other countries to react significantly," their report said.
The report analyzed satellite data and cross-reference findings with construction bidding documents, as well as evidence gathered from other official sources, activists, academics and non-governmental organizations. While German researcher Adrian Zenz has estimated that Xinjiang can have up to 1,200 facilities, Australian researchers focused on a sample of 28 camps.
By the end of September, the facilities stretched over an area more than 40 times larger than the Los Angeles Coliseum, researchers said, covering nearly 700 acres.
A facility in Hotan, a city in southern Xinjiang, expanded by more than 2,469%, from 1.7 acres in early 2016 to nearly 43 acres, according to the report. According to the report, another facility in Shule County has more than doubled in size since March.
The satellite images of the 28 facilities showed high security features that resembled prisons, with significant fences to restrict the movement of people inside, towers and strategic barricades with only a small number of entry points. These fields, the report concluded, are "of a punitive nature and more like the prison camps than what the Chinese authorities call" transformation through educational centers ".
-Chun Han Wong contributed to this article.
Write to Rob Taylor in rob.taylor@wsj.com
Corrections and Amplifications
An earlier version of the map incorrectly spelled Kyrgyzstan as Kyrgyzstan. (November 2)
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