‘If the others go I’ll go’: Inside China’s scheme to transfer Uighurs into work
A high-level Chinese study says a massive work scheme is reducing Uighur population density in Xinjiang. …
“The other thing it shows is this ulterior motive,” she said, “that although the narrative is one of lifting people out of poverty, there’s a drive to entirely change people’s lives, to separate families, disperse the population, change their language, their culture, their family structures, which is more likely to increase poverty than to decrease it.”