Focus Taiwan
Date: 2019/07/05
By: Stacy Hsu

Taipei, July 5 (CNA) Several Uyghur representatives on Friday called attention to the plight of Uyghur Muslims living in the supposedly autonomous region of Xinjiang in China as they marked the 10th anniversary of major ethnic riots in the region.

"Today, nearly 3 million Uyghurs are detained in China's concentration camps. The prelude to this is what we called the 'July 5th Urumqi Massacre,' which resulted in the disappearance of many Uyghur people," Japan Uyghur Association Chairman Ilham Mahmut said at press conference in Taipei.

Ilham may have been referring to an estimate made by Randall Schriver, the head of Asia policy at the United States Department of Defense, in early May.

He said Chinese Muslims were being imprisoned in "concentration camps," and justified the term "given what we understand to be the magnitude of the detention, at least a million but likely closer to 3 million citizens out of a population of 10 million."    [FULL  STORY]