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Camps Expand in Xinjiang as Discontent Grows

Amid a tide of global condemnation, the Chinese government has denied, and later tried to justify, the use of re-education camps to imprison up to two million Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims in Xinjiang. Recently described by officials as “vocational training centers,” the camps are, according to reports and equipment manifests, de facto detention centers where inmates have been subjected to physical and psychological coercion to force them to renounce