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More Leaked Documents From China: How The Country ‘Brainwashes’ Muslims In Labor Camps

Ashe Schow
More Leaked Documents From China: How The Country ‘Brainwashes’ Muslims In Labor Camps
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As more information leaks out regarding the Chinese communist government’s oppression of Muslim minorities in the country, the explanations from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) become even more impossible to believe.

The latest leaked documents, reviewed by BBC Panorama, show that the re-education camps are intended to be run as prisons and not as educational facilities, as the CCP routinely claims. One nine-page memo included in the collection of documents, sent in 2017 by then deputy secretary of Xinjiang’s Communist Party, Zhu Hailun, explains how the prisons should be run:

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