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This assignment has taught me that it's up to humans to protect our fellow man and understand that we are all the same. We can't continue to allow these atrocities to occur.

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Uighurs are systematically being forced into factory and farming positions across China in the largest mass detention of an ethno-religious group since World War II. Atrocities such as these are crimes against humanity.

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China is forcing Uighurs into interment camps where they are being tortured mentally and physically. The point of these camps is to erase Uighur culture and assimilate the Uighur people into the dominant Chinese culture.

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https://www.theguardian.com/news/2019/feb/25/modern-slavery-trafficking-persons-one-in-200
https://www.antislavery.org/uyghur-people-supply-chains/
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/features/uighurs/

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Chinese Uighurs, members of an ethnic minority who often practice Islam, are currently being persecuted in China. As part of China's current fascist effort to establish a single Chinese culture, any religious and ethnic minorities are being categorized as outsiders who threaten China's purity and power.

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Jews persecuted in the Holocaust were forced into concentration camps where they would have to carry out forced labor until their often tragic ends.

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No human shall be held as a slave. Slavery in all its forms are prohibited. 

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No human shall be held as a slave. Slavery in all its forms are prohibited. 

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Universal Declaration of Human Rights Article 4

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“Not far from us, prisoners were at work. Some were digging holes, others were carrying sand. None as much as glanced at us.”

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“Not far from us, prisoners were at work. Some were digging holes, others were carrying sand. None as much as glanced at us.”

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"Night" Page 37, Elie Wiesel

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https://www.dw.com/en/uighur-exploitation-in-china-slammed-as-modern-day-slavery/a-55953464

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China's treatment of ethnic minorities in the Xinjiang region came into the spotlight again after a new report found evidence indicating Uighur laborers are being forced to pick cotton by hand.

The research was published by the US-based think-tank the Center for Global Policy and was reviewed by the BBC as well as German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung.

An estimated 570,000 workers from three Uighur regions were mobilized to cotton picking operations in 2018, the report found, citing online government documents.

The transfers took place under the Chinese government's "coercive" labor training scheme that involves "military-style management."

"It is impossible to define where coercion ends and where local consent may begin," wrote Adrian Zenz, the researcher who found the documents.

Major fashion brands, including Nike, Adidas, Gap and others have come under fire by rights groups for using cotton-sourced from China. The Xinjiang region produces over 20% of the world's cotton - making it a major player in global textile supply chains.

Not the time for 'business as usual'

Dolkun Isa, the president of the Munich-based World Uyghur Congress, urged companies not to support China's human rights abuses.

"The link between modern day slavery and the genocide itself cannot be separated," he said. "It is not [the] correct time to do business as usual."

Isa, a world leading authority on China's policy of detaining ethnic minorities including Muslim-minority Uighurs and Kazakhs in the province of Xinjiang, also called on Western governments to do more.

"We haven't seen any real action to stop this Uighur genocide," Isa said, adding that European countries in particular have not taken "concrete action."

He noted that although the International Criminal Court (ICC) declined to take on a genocide complaint against China - other international bodies and organizations where Beijing is a member can "take action politically" and legally.

China has come under intense international criticism over its policies in Xinjiang, where rights groups say as many as 1 million Uighurs and other mostly Muslim minorities have been held in internment camps.

Beijing said that the heavily guarded centers are educational and vocational institutes and that all who have attended have "graduated" and gone home.
DW's Biresh Banerjee and Michelle Stockman contributed reporting.

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Uighur exploitation in China slammed as 'modern day slavery' | DW | 15.12.2020

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China's treatment of ethnic minorities in the Xinjiang region came into the spotlight again after a new report found evidence indicating Uighur laborers are being forced to pick cotton by hand. The research was published by the US-based think-tank the Center for Global Policy and was reviewed by the BBC as well as German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung.

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https://apnews.com/article/asia-china-race-and-ethnicity-racial-injustice-crime-8036cf3f50d08d171bbb359df5dddf46

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US Holocaust Museum says China boosting Uyghur repression

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum says it has compiled evidence of increasing government repression against Uyghur Muslims in China’s western Xinjiang region .