Amnesty International has released a 160-page report titled “Like We Were Enemies in a War”: China’s Mass Internment, Torture and Persecution of Muslims in Xinjiang, which describes the region as a ‘dystopian hellscape’. Since 2017, Amnesty argues, Chinese authorities have been using internment camps throughout Xinjiang to “root out the religious traditions, cultural practices and local languages of the region’s Muslim ethnic groups”: namely ethnic Uyghurs, Kazakhs, Hui, Kyrgyz, Uzbeks and Tajiks. The report details torture and other ill-treatment in the camps and notes that every aspect of daily life is regimented to “forcibly instill a secular, homogeneous Chinese nation ... Log in to view full article.