Han Chinese: Internment Camps and Security Crackdown

han chinese: This is a Communist Party showcase for its efforts to tame the Xinjiang region, the heartland of China's often restive Uighur Muslim minority and an unforgiving terrain, according to CTV. The free or low-cost houses are assigned alternately to Uighurs and Han Chinese, who work side-by-side in greenhouses and send their children to school together. A Chinese flag flutters above the settlement, and a billboard at the entrance says, Welcome to the Hotan Unity New Village. It is the future the party envisions for Xinjiang after a massive security crackdown that has sent by some estimates more than a million Muslims to internment camps, and many of their children to orphanages. In their place are colorful murals of what authorities consider to be scenes of unity, such as a Uighur man and his family holding a Chinese flag. But a closer look at what the party calls ethnic unity reveals what isn't there mosques for Muslim worshippers, or traditional Uighur brick homes, often adorned with pointed arches and carved decorations. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.