Editing Xenophobia (section)

===== Persecution of Uighurs =====
{{Main|Persecution of Uyghurs in China}}

Since 2017, China has come under intense international criticism for its treatment of one million Muslims (the majority of them are [[Uyghurs]], a Turkic ethnic minority mostly in [[Xinjiang]]) who are being held in [[Xinjiang internment camps|detention camps]] without any legal process.<ref name="indy">{{Cite web |date=5 July 2019 |title='Cultural genocide': China separating thousands of Muslim children from parents for 'thought education' |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/china-muslim-children-uighur-family-separation-thought-education-a8989296.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200422051855/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/china-muslim-children-uighur-family-separation-thought-education-a8989296.html |archive-date=22 April 2020 |access-date=27 April 2020 |work=[[The Independent]]}}</ref><ref name="hrw._UN:U">{{Cite web|date=10 July 2019|title=UN: Unprecedented Joint Call for China to End Xinjiang Abuses|url=https://www.hrw.org/news/2019/07/10/un-unprecedented-joint-call-china-end-xinjiang-abuses|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191217070044/https://www.hrw.org/news/2019/07/10/un-unprecedented-joint-call-china-end-xinjiang-abuses|archive-date=17 December 2019|access-date=18 December 2020|publisher=[[Human Rights Watch]]}}</ref> Critics of the policy have described it as the [[Sinicization]] of Xinjiang and some have also called it an [[ethnocide]] or a [[cultural genocide]].<ref name="indy" /><ref>JoanneSmith Finley,  "Why scholars and activists increasingly fear a Uyghur genocide in Xinjiang." ''Journal of Genocide Research'' 23.3 (2021): 348–370.</ref>