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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 Vancouver Courier. 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.article continues below Trending Stories'Bella Dolls' sex doll brothel has opened in Vancouver Vancouver can't get enough of otter on the loose in Chinatown garden Vision Vancouver will not run a mayoral candidate for first time in party's history Vancouver group hypes 'happy hours' in B.C. 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. In the village's new public square, Uighur children banter with Han Chinese children in fluent Mandarin, the language of the Han majority, rather than in their native tongue. 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. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.