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“Our Career Direction is to Monitor Uyghurs”

As evidence mounts of detention camps holding up to one million Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims in Xinjiang, personal accounts of Han Chinese living in the region are rare. Hong Kong-based Initium Media recently published an account from a Han Chinese student studying Uyghur in Urumqi, the regional capital, who notes that only non-Uyghur students are allowed to study the language, and some are recruited by police and national security agencies after graduation to aid in