In early 2016, China launched its comprehensive Anti-Terrorism Law, primarily focusing on eliminating so-called “extremism” among Uyghurs. This development escalated sharply in early 2017 after the new regional CCP secretary, Chen Quanguo, began an intensive securitization program in East Turkistan. Local Chinese authorities began to establish “Education and Transformation Training Centers” where so-called “radicalized” people have to “unlearn” their “extremist religious ideologies.” In 2017 and 2018, these so-called ‘Training Centers’ increased in large numbers in many parts of the Uyghur Homeland. Currently, up to three million Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims are estimated to be held in those camps. According to the China expert Adrian Zenz, by November 2019, the number of such facilities had already surpassed 1,000. Most of the people targeted and sent to the camps in East Turkistan are poets, professors, academics, writers, and leading figures. According to Zenz’ other report, the Uyghur birth rate dropped significantly between 2015 and 2018 due to the Chinese government’s forced sterilization policy against Uyghur women.

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