I wonder how they get into the camps? Very strict laws targeting them? The Uighurs did commit terrorist attacks but I don't think millions of people were involved?
One day apparently it spat out 24k names. They managed to imprison about 9k the following day.
Naturally the government know quite a few things about what you’re up to and this is a factor.
Going to the mosque is a supposedly the easy way in. Not sure in what xinjiang city the mosques are still accessible. All I could find was locked down ones with all kinds of barricades and monitoring devices.. I would be surprised if there was in Xinjiang unlike eat china anyone left who would dare to go to a mosque.
Some of the detainees are used by the state as force labor and leased out to companies. It’s speculated that this demand also can causes mass detainment.
One in every 5 or 6 Uighurs could be in a camp right now Yet maybe only 1 in 1e-07 Uighur might have done so called "terror", these however are in jail or dead, not in a camp.
The "camps" are not part of the Penal system in China. Camp is not for the radical. [0]
Merly handsome former goat farmers who operated little blue cell phone stores in the city and love to drink tea or maybe sell steamed food to others who operate little blue cellphone stores.
A few hands full of the maybe ~100 terrorists (2019-1992 that i could find documented in 15 min) either did not survive camputere or were legally convicted by the authorities and executed or are in inside the penal system, some forever.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penal_system_in_China "These camps are reportedly operated outside the legal system"
(the ~21Mil Xinjiangies are 48% Uyghurs and 41% Han)
More reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chen_Quanguo Chen Quanguo is a Chinese politician and current Communist Party Secretary of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and a member of the 19th Politburo of the Communist Party of China..