US report says China uses counter-terrorism as pretext to detain, carry out repressive campaign against Uighurs


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Washington D.C. [USA], June 24 (ANI): A US report issued by the Department of State has said that China uses counter-terrorism (CT) as a pretext to detain and carry out a repressive campaign against millions of Uighurs and members of other Muslim minority groups in internment camps in the Xinjiang Autonomous Region located in the northwestern part of the country. It said China 's response to terrorism "remained difficult to distinguish from the government's suppression of peaceful activities that authorities deemed separatist or subversive in nature". "The PRC government's CT attention remained on ethnic Uyghur so-called 'extremists' whom Beijing ascribes...