What the Concentration Camps of Bosnia Can Teach Us About the Abuse of Immigrants on the U.S. Border

I am not one of the on-the-ground reporters covering the Trump administration’s abusive treatment of immigrant children on the border with Mexico, but more than 25 years ago I investigated the concentration camps where Serbs tortured and executed Muslims during the Bosnian war. I can’t quite believe that I am writing this line and this story, but much of what I saw at those Balkan camps in the 1990s is relevant to what’s happening now in America.

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Escape from Xinjiang: Muslim Uighurs speak of China persecution

Testimonies by Muslim Uighurs who escaped Xinjiang confirm reports of 'systematic campaign of human rights violations'.

… Tarim's testimony about what's happening to the Uighurs in Xinjiang, and interviews with two Uighur women in Istanbul, also line up with Human Rights Watch's (HRW) latest report accusing China of "conducting a mass, systematic campaign of human rights violations", against the Turkic-speaking Muslim minority Group.

…. Tarim's testimony bolsters HRW's latest report, which claims that as many as one million people are being held in "camps" across China's western Region.

…. State-backed media referred to the camps as "counter-extremism training centres", while critics call them "concentration camps".

…. "The Chinese government is committing human rights abuses in Xinjiang on a scale unseen in the country in decades," Sophie Richardson, China director at Human Rights Watch, said in the report.

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