US says 800k to 2 million religious minorities detained in Chinese internment camps | World News, The Indian Express

US says 800k to 2 million religious minorities detained in Chinese internment camps | World News, The Indian Express

By PTI |Washington |Published: December 6, 2018 2:55:22 pm

US says 800k to 2 million religious minorities detained in Chinese internment camps

At a Congressional hearing, Scott Busby, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State at the Bureau of the Human Right Democracy and Labour, alleged that Beijing was supporting similar repressive moves by other authoritarian regimes across the globe.

The situation in resource-rich Xinjiang has been restive as the native Muslim Uighurs have been resisting increasing settlements of majority Han Chinese from other provinces. (Source: Reuters)

An estimated 800,000 to 2 million religious minorities are currently being detained in internment camps in China, the Trump administration has told lawmakers, who have expressed serious concerns over the massive human rights violations in the Communist nation’s Xinjiang province.