Database Entry: 'If you enter a camp, you never come out': inside China's war on Islam
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'If you enter a camp, you never come out': inside China's war on Islam

January 11, 2019
Guardian Lily Kuo
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In 2018, officials expected to accommodate 12,000 “students” as well as another 2,100 inmates at another detention centre – a total of about 7% of the county’s adult population, or 11% of the entire male population.

A man carrying plastic bags of naan and skewers explains that his neighbour has gone to the training centre. He suddenly interrupts himself: “We are scared talking with you.” He says: “They will retaliate.”