Persecution of Uyghurs in China

Persecution of Uyghurs in ChinaPart of the Xinjiang conflictDetainees listening to speeches in a camp in Lop County, Xinjiang, April 2017Xinjiang, highlighted red, shown within ChinaLocationXinjiang, ChinaDate2014–presentTargetUyghurs, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, and other Turkic MuslimsAttack typeInternment, forced abortion, forced sterilization, forced birth control, forced labor, torture, indoctrination, alleged rape (including gang rape)Victimsest. ≥1 million detainedPerpetratorGovernment of the People's Republic of ChinaMotiveCounterterrorism (official)Sinicization, Islamophobia, and suppression of political dissent History of the People's Republic of China Chronology 1949–1976 (Mao era) Revolution Land Reform Movement Proclamation Korean War Campaign to Suppress Counterrevolutionaries Three-anti and Five-anti Campaigns First five-year plan Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence Bandung Conference Sufan movement Hundred Flowers Campaign Anti-Rightist Campaign Canton Fair Great Leap Forward Great Chinese Famine Anti-Right Deviation Struggle Two Bombs, One Satellite Seven Thousand Cadres Conference Socialist Education Movement Third Front Cultural Revolution Abolition of the preside