US State department accuses China of rights abuses not seen ‘since the 1930s’ | World News, The Indian Express

US State department accuses China of rights abuses not seen ‘since the 1930s’ | World News, The Indian Express

By New York Times |Washington |Published: March 14, 2019 9:50:04 am

US State department accuses China of rights abuses not seen ‘since the 1930s’

The detention camps in China’s western Xinjiang region have expanded since 2017 to include an estimated 1 million Uighurs, Kazakhs and other Muslims in a program that tries to turn them into loyal supporters of the Chinese government. The camps have been broadly condemned, including by the United Nations, but China has brushed off the criticism.

Volunteers of Atajurt Kazakh Human Rights pray before a collective dinner at the home of one of their members, in Almaty, Kazakhstan, Jan. 12, 2019. China’s vast detention program for Muslims has required more and more police officers, and recruits are coming from the very ethnic groups that are being suppressed. (Emile Ducke/The New York Times/File)

By David E. Sanger

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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo declared Wednesday that China is “in a league of its own when it comes to human rights violations,” and one of his top officials compared Beijing’s roundup of Muslim minorities to movements into camps not seen “since the 1930s.”