"Facebook finds Chinese hacking operation targeting Uyghurs", Associated Press, 24 March 2020. "China has imprisoned more than 1 million people, including Uyghurs and other mostly Muslim ethnic groups, in a vast network of concentration camps, according to U.S. officials and human rights groups. People have been subjected to torture, sterilization and political indoctrination, in addition to forced labor, as part of an assimilation campaign in a region whose inhabitants are ethnically and culturally distinct from the Han Chinese majority."
Rajagopalan, Megha, "China Secretly Built A Vast New Infrastructure To Imprison Muslims", Buzzfeed News, 27 August 2020. "China has established a sprawling system to detain and incarcerate hundreds of thousands of Uighurs, Kazakhs, and other Muslim minorities, in what is already the largest-scale detention of ethnic and religious minorities since World War II."
Ryan Patrick Jones, MPs vote to label China's persecution of Uighurs a genocide. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (22 February 2021). Geraadpleegd op February 25, 2021. "A substantial majority of MPs — including most Liberals who participated — voted in favour of a Conservative motion that says China's actions in its western Xinjiang region meet the definition of genocide set out in the 1948 United Nations Genocide Convention. ... The final tally was 266 in favour and zero opposed. Two MPs formally abstained."
Congressional Research Service (18 June 2019). Uyghurs in China. Congressional Research Service. Gearchiveerd van origineel op 18 december 2020. Geraadpleegd op 2 december 2019.
"Even in death, Uighurs feel long reach of Chinese state", France 24, 9 October 2019. Gearchiveerd op 9 October 2019. Geraadpleegd op 26 april 2020. "In just two years, dozens of cemeteries have been destroyed in the northwest region, according to an AFP investigation with satellite imagery analysts Earthrise Alliance. Some of the graves were cleared with little care -- in Shayar county, AFP journalists saw unearthed human bones left discarded in three sites."
Harrington, Chris, "Lest We Forget the Uyghurs", Georgetown Security Studies Review, Georgetown University Center for Security Studies, 27 October 2020.
"Wary Of Unrest Among Uighur Minority, China Locks Down Xinjiang Region", NPR, 26 september 2017. Gearchiveerd op 3 February 2020. Geraadpleegd op 28 January 2020. "In the years that followed, Uighur terrorists killed dozens of Han Chinese in brutal, coordinated attacks at train stations and government offices. A few Uighurs have joined ISIS, and Chinese authorities are worried about more attacks on Chinese soil."
Clarke, Colin P., "China's Global War on Terrorism", Slate, 26 August 2019. Gearchiveerd op 3 February 2020. Geraadpleegd op 3 February 2020. "Over the past decade, groups advocating separatism for Xinjiang's Muslim Uighur minority—including the Turkistan Islamic Party and before it, the East Turkistan Islamic Movement—have been linked to numerous low-level attacks using knives and vehicles as weapons."
Karen, Leigh, "The Uighurs", The Washington Post, 9 October 2019. Gearchiveerd op 4 February 2020. Geraadpleegd op 2 February 2020. "Tensions erupted in 2009... Attacks by Uighur separatists intensified in the years that followed, with one of the groups that carried them out—the Turkistan Islamic Party—also being credited with having thousands of jihadist fighters in Syria."
Congressional Research Service (18 June 2019). Uyghurs in China. Congressional Research Service. Gearchiveerd van origineel op 18 december 2020. Geraadpleegd op 2 december 2019.
"Wary Of Unrest Among Uighur Minority, China Locks Down Xinjiang Region", NPR, 26 september 2017. Gearchiveerd op 3 February 2020. Geraadpleegd op 28 January 2020. "In the years that followed, Uighur terrorists killed dozens of Han Chinese in brutal, coordinated attacks at train stations and government offices. A few Uighurs have joined ISIS, and Chinese authorities are worried about more attacks on Chinese soil."
Karen, Leigh, "The Uighurs", The Washington Post, 9 October 2019. Gearchiveerd op 4 February 2020. Geraadpleegd op 2 February 2020. "Tensions erupted in 2009... Attacks by Uighur separatists intensified in the years that followed, with one of the groups that carried them out—the Turkistan Islamic Party—also being credited with having thousands of jihadist fighters in Syria."
Clarke, Colin P., "China's Global War on Terrorism", Slate, 26 August 2019. Gearchiveerd op 3 February 2020. Geraadpleegd op 3 February 2020. "Over the past decade, groups advocating separatism for Xinjiang's Muslim Uighur minority—including the Turkistan Islamic Party and before it, the East Turkistan Islamic Movement—have been linked to numerous low-level attacks using knives and vehicles as weapons."
"Even in death, Uighurs feel long reach of Chinese state", France 24, 9 October 2019. Gearchiveerd op 9 October 2019. Geraadpleegd op 26 april 2020. "In just two years, dozens of cemeteries have been destroyed in the northwest region, according to an AFP investigation with satellite imagery analysts Earthrise Alliance. Some of the graves were cleared with little care -- in Shayar county, AFP journalists saw unearthed human bones left discarded in three sites."
