Xi Jinping on Crime

Use an iron fist against Uighurs, claiming Islamic terrorism

The following month, the Xinjiang Party Committee launched a ..year-long Counterterrorism Strike Hard Campaign that has been subsequently extended. Officials seen adopting a "soft" approach in governance were promptly replaced.

Nearly a million Uighurs and other indigenous people in Xinjiang have been rounded up and interned in what Chinese authorities call "vocational education and training centres" since the spring of 2017, as part of the Re-education campaign.

"Teach like a school, manage like the military, and defend like a prison"--this has been the approach in running these centres. Detainees are held without legal recourse