All Reading

This section contains a curated list of useful articles, investigations, books and other reading materials. The list is updated on a weekly basis and suggestions for additions are welcome.

Starting Points:

Eyewitness Accounts

Overview Reports

Lists / Databases of Victims

Satellite Imagery of Camps, Prisons & Cultural Destruction

Part 2: Have Any of Xinjiang’s Detention Facilities Closed?
RAND Corporation Lina K RAND Corporation Lina K

Part 2: Have Any of Xinjiang’s Detention Facilities Closed?

This report, the second in a three-part series, employs a novel empirical approach to systematically assess the current operating status of known detention facilities in Xinjiang using nighttime lighting. This analysis provides new, empirical evidence to suggest that the overwhelming majority of detention facilities in Xinjiang remain active, operational, and in many cases, still under construction – despite Chinese claims to the contrary.

Read More
Inside A Xinjiang Detention Camp
Buzzfeed News Lina K Buzzfeed News Lina K

Inside A Xinjiang Detention Camp

It started as a single small compound. Within 18 months, it had grown to more than 10 times its original size, capable of holding about 3,700 detainees. China's mass internment system for Muslims in Xinjiang is so secretive that, despite a growing international outcry, little is known about any one detention camp. Interviews and architectural modeling offer a rare and terrifying view into a massive internment complex.

Read More
Xinjiang’s Re-Education and Securitization Campaign: Evidence from Domestic Security Budgets
Jamestown Foundation Lina K Jamestown Foundation Lina K

Xinjiang’s Re-Education and Securitization Campaign: Evidence from Domestic Security Budgets

In August 2018, at a meeting of the U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, the PRC flatly denied the existence of “re-education camps”, stating that they were instead “vocational education and employment training centers to acquire employment skills and legal knowledge”. But the PRC government’s own budgets appear to contradict these assertions.

Read More
Mapping Xinjiang’s Detention Camps
ASPI Lina K ASPI Lina K

Mapping Xinjiang’s Detention Camps

This November 2018 report by ASPI’s International Cyber Policy Centre collates and adds to the current open-source research into China’s growing network of extrajudicial ‘re-education’ camps in Xinjiang province.

Read More
China’s hidden camps
BBC Lina K BBC Lina K

China’s hidden camps

China is accused of locking up hundreds of thousands of Muslims without trial in its western region of Xinjiang. The government denies the claims, saying people willingly attend special “vocational schools” which combat “terrorism and religious extremism”.

Now a BBC investigation has found important new evidence of the reality.

Read More
What Really Happens in China’s ‘Re-education’ Camps
New York Times Lina K New York Times Lina K

What Really Happens in China’s ‘Re-education’ Camps

What does it take to intern half a million members of one ethnic group in just a year? Enormous resources and elaborate organization, but the Chinese authorities aren’t stingy. Vast swathes of the Uighur population in China’s western region of Xinjiang — as well as Kazakhs, Kyrgyz and other ethnic minorities — are being detained to undergo what the state calls “transformation through education.” Many tens of thousands of them have been locked up in new thought-control camps with barbed wire, bombproof surfaces, reinforced doors and guard rooms.

Read More