Modern Uyghur Genocide

Beginning in 2017, the Chinese government under Xinjiang Party Secretary Chen Quanguo interned over one million Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims in facilities officially designated as vocational education and training centers. Documented policies include mass surveillance, forced sterilizations, forced labor, and family separations. Sterilization procedures in Xinjiang increased seven-fold between 2016 and 2018, while birth rates in predominantly Uyghur regions dropped over 60%. The United States declared the campaign a genocide in January 2021. A 2022 UN report found the treatment may constitute crimes against humanity.