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Cemeteries razed; mosques destroyed: Satellite data reveals expanding Xinjiang camps

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In 2022, a landmark United Nations report concluded that the Chinese government may have committed crimes against humanity in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. It's a claim Beijing denies. The province, in northwest China, is the ancestral home of the Uyghur people. Satellite imagery has since revealed the changing nature of so-called 're-education camps' in the region as well as instances of cultural erasure.
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