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Over the past three years, increased global attention has been drawn to China’s crackdown on more than a million members of its Uighur-Muslim minority in Xinjiang.
China has long faced accusations that it operates detention centres masked as “vocational training” camps, where Muslims are held against their will indefinitely and subjected to torture and abuse.
Activists, human rights organisations and even governments - including the United States administration and Canada’s Parliament - have repeatedly referred to China’s actions as genocide, while Australia has criticised the reports as “deeply disturbing”.
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But China is not alone in systemically targeting Muslims.