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You’re right, it’s an estimate.

Considering there are approx 10M Uighur people in Xinjiang, even a conservative 500k in detention is 1 in 20.

He mentioned not seeing many young Uighur men on the streets. I wonder where they’re hanging out...

While this estimate is eye opening it has to be compared to the ratio of black men in prison in the US, which is about 7%. One could argue that both high incarceration rates are results of policies to keep certain ethnic groups in control. (war on drugs as a continuation of Jim Crow laws in the US)

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