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00:00The United Nations estimates that 1.5 million Muslims have been or are still in detention
00:24facilities across China's northwest. In 2014, China launched the Strike Hard campaign
00:33in Xinjiang to stamp out what it called violent separatism and religious extremism among Muslims
00:40here. But details have been leaking out that large numbers of Muslims have suffered brutal
00:47mistreatment, beatings, torture, rape, and many thousands sentenced to long periods in
00:54jail or other detention facilities.
00:57We identified 348 locations which we believe are part of the current detention program.
01:22So it kind of becomes a very organic human net of surveillance and spying. And I guess this is
01:32what people mean in Xinjiang when they say that Xinjiang is really an open-air prison.
01:38They said if you go to court to testify again, your mother and father will die.
01:52Muslim women were forced to have permanent implants in their uterus to prevent pregnancy
01:59as a way to reduce Muslim births.
02:13The PRC, by the imposition of measures to prevent births, intended to destroy a significant part
02:19of the Uyghurs in Xinjiang, as such, has committed genocide.
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