Center for Uyghur Studies Releases Report on China’s Use of Boarding Schools as a Tool of Genocide

The Center for Uyghur Studies (CUS) has released a new report titled “Breaking the Roots: China’s Use of Boarding Schools as a Tool of Genocide Against Uyghur Muslims.” The report examines the Chinese government’s boarding school system in East Turkistan (AKA Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region), highlighting concerns about forced assimilation and the separation of Uyghur children from their families and cultural heritage.

The report outlines how these state-run schools function to distance children from their motherlanguage, religion, and identity, raising serious questions under international human rights standards.

“These so-called ‘boarding schools’ are part of a broader strategy to destroy the Uyghur people by targeting the next generation,” said Abdulhakim Idris, Executive Director of the Center for Uyghur Studies. “The international community must confront this reality and act with urgency and principle.”

The full report has been published in English and Indonesian and are available on the Center for Uyghur Studies’ website: Uyghurstudy.org