Muslim Detention Camps in China: Resources

Here are resources for teaching about the Muslims camps in China.

Vox offers a good 9-minute overview of the camps below.  Facing History has a lesson in which students read personal accounts of Uighurs in the internment camps in Xinjiang Province.

The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists published a leak of highly classified Chinese government documents from the camps.   And the New York Times published a terrific story highlighting the important takeaways from the documents.

Here's an awesome comic book from Note about "missing" Uighur woman (thanks to Jeremy Green for posting the link). The Washington Post has a story about her (Mihrigul Tursun) and the comic book called "Japanese manga about a Uighur woman’s persecution in China becomes viral hit." In addition,  you can read her testimony before Congress in November and see a short video of her testimony.  She did another interview with Radio Freee Asia here.

Another testimonial from the camps comes from Ferkat Jawdat,  a Uighur who is an American citizen and lives in Virginia. His mother is in a detention camp in Xinjiang. He appeared on the Micahel Barbaro show on December 9th. You can listen to it here.

• New York Times, A Crackdown on Islam Is Spreading Across China 
• New York Times, China Said It Closed Muslim Detention Camps. There’s Reason to Doubt That.
• Foreign Policy Magazine: Xinjiang’s New Slavery, Coerced Uighur labor touches almost every part of the supply chain.
• CHINA CABLES International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, Exposed: China’s Operating Manuals For Mass Internment And Arrest By Algorithm
• Foreign Policy Magazine:
• Atlantic Magazine: Uighurs Can’t Escape Chinese Repression, Even in Europe
• The Conversation: I researched Uighur society in China for 8 years and watched how technology opened new opportunities – then became a trap
• New York Times: Absolutely No Mercy:’ Leaked Files Expose How China Organized Mass Detentions of Muslims
• New York Times: 5 Takeaways From the Leaked Files on China’s Mass Detention of Muslims
• The Week: Inside China's 're-education' camps
• Facing History, THE TARGETING OF UIGHUR MUSLIMS IN CHINA
• Vice Newes: A Teen Condemning Uighur ‘Concentration Camps’ in China Goes Viral on TikTok
• Council on Foreign Relations: China’s Repression of Uighurs in Xinjiang
• The Listening Post: The China Cables: Disrupting Beijing's Xinjiang narrative