FILE.- In this Monday, Dec. 3, 2018, file photo, a guard tower and barbed wire fences are seen around a section of the Artux City Vocational Skills Education Training Service Center in Artux in western China's Xinjiang region. This is one of a growing number of internment camps in the Xinjiang region, where by some estimates over 1 million Muslims have been detained, forced to give up their language and their religion and subject to political indoctrination. Confidential documents, leaked to a consortium of news organizations, lay out the Chinese government's deliberate strategy to lock up ethnic minorities to rewire their thoughts and even the language they speak. One of the documents says that internment camps – such as the one in Artux – are to install guard towers, as well as other security measures to prevent escapes. (AP Photo/File) |