Explain to us who the Uyghurs are?

After the death of Mao Zedong, the persecutions decreased, but they resumed in the 2000s, after the jihadist attacks of September 11, 2001 in the United States and several others on Chinese soil. This repression became even more widespread after Xi Jinping came to power in 2012. Particularly from 2016, when he appointed a new secretary of the Chinese Communist Party in Jinxiang, Chen Quanguo, who previously occupied the same post in Tibet. This sets up re-education camps where hundreds of thousands of Uyghurs and Kazakhs are sent.

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