Civil Rights: Muslim Detention Camps

Recently, a religious crisis has risen in Beijing, China. Muslims are deeply oppressed in China and now, there have been internment camps created in the Xinjiang region to detain Uighurs, Kazakhs,  and other Muslim minorities. There has been an international outrageous in reaction to these detention camps. The United States envoy called it part of a “war with faith.” Turkey, though previously silent on the issue of the camps, has become critical. The United Nations high commissioner for human rights has demanded answers from China. Despite these complaints, at the annual meeting of China's national legislature, which began last month, the Xinjiang official Communist Party members seemed unbothered by the controversy of the detainment camps. 
Foreign experts have examined satellite images of China and their camps. With this, they have estimated that as many as a million Muslims have been detained without trial. When asked how many inmates were in the camps, the chairman of the Xinjiang government, Shohrat Zakir, dismissed the estimate, but also did not clarify the real number. “Some voices internationally have said Xinjiang has concentration camps or re-education camps. These claims are pure lies,” Mr. Zakir stated at the gathering of Xinjiang delegates of the Communist Party-controlled legislature. Zakir, an Uighur, has been one of the most prominent defenders of the internment camps since last year. In fact, in October, he was the first Chinese official to defend  the mass detentions in detail.
The purpose of these detainment camps is to turn captured Muslims into loyal, Chinese-speaking supporters of the Communist Party of China. The camps have been frequently compared to concentration camps of the Holocaust. They have also been compared to the Native American boarding schools. "In fact, our centers are like boarding schools where the students eat and live for free," Zakir stated, using the camps official names, "educational training centers." Zakir also mentioned that the camps could eventually be phased out, but never stated how long that would take.