White paper praises Xinjiang “achievements” while ignoring decades of repression, forced labor, and genocide. By Alp Uyghur China released a new white paper on September 22 claiming “unprecedented economic and social progress” in Xinjiang and presenting the 70th anniversary of the so-called Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region as a success story. […]

“In the Uyghur Autonomous Region, Uyghur Muslims are suffering under the Chinese Communist Party’s genocidal campaign of forced sterilizations, forced detentions, and re-education. Millions of Uyghurs have been detained in these camps, where they are kept in cramped cells, they are tortured, and brainwashed. We all know this. Uyghur women are subject to heinous violence I won’t bear to repeat this morning.”