TO GO WITH CHINA-XINJIANG-UNREST-MIGRATION-POPULATION BY BENJAMIN HAAS
This photo taken on April 16, 2015 shows a Uighur man and boy watching a performance under a statue of late communist leader Mao Zedong meeting with a Uighur, in the central square in Hotan, in China's western Xinjiang region. Waves of mass immigration from China's heartland have raised the proportion of Han among Xinjiang's population from six percent in 1949 to 38 percent in 2011. AFP PHOTO / Greg BAKER / AFP PHOTO / Greg Baker
#FactOfTheDay – 11/10/2018 Re-education camps for Muslim minorities now legal under Chinese law
The Xinjiang region, the largest Chinese administrative division, is home to detention centres or re-education camps for Muslim minorities officially established to tackle Islamic extremism or fundamentalism. First kept a…