Uyghur Trader Who Went Missing in Xinjiang Ahead of Travel to Turkey Died in Detention
A Uyghur trader, who went missing as he prepared to travel from northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) to Turkey for business, died under mysterious circumstances in one of the region’s internment camps, according to sources.Ibrahim…
Measles Spread Prompts Samoa to Declare State of Emergency
MELBOURNE – Samoa declared a state of emergency this weekend, closing all schools and cracking down on public gatherings, after several deaths linked to a measles outbreak that has spread across the Pacific islands.The island state of about 200,000, so…
Bangladesh Rescues 122 Malaysia-bound Rohingya
The Bangladesh Coast Guard rescued 122 Rohingya from a trawler in the Bay of Bengal south of Cox’s Bazar on Thursday as the boat was heading for Malaysia, officials said.Some of those on the boat said they left their camps in Bangladesh in search of be…
Nearly 2,000 Flee Rakhine Villages in Fear of Myanmar Army ‘Clearance Operations’
Ongoing hostilities between Myanmar forces and the rebel Arakan Army in Rakhine state forced about 1,700 civilians to flee villages in three townships this week, amid fears that they would be detained and possible tortured by national soldiers conducti…
Internment Camp Assigned Uyghur Forced Laborers to Xinjiang Textile Factory: Official
More than a dozen Uyghurs have been assigned to work in a factory in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) from a local internment camp, according to officials, bolstering reports that government policy is shifting from mass incarc…
Chinese Mega-Project in Myanmar’s Kayin State Sparks Resentment And Worry
Dozens of newly built villas line a street as concrete skeletons of what may become hotels or casinos stand half-finished nearby. A new paved roadway allows access to more than a dozen boxy two-story buildings still under construction opposite plots of…
Expert Estimates China Has More Than 1,000 Internment Camps For Xinjiang Uyghurs
China has built more than 1,000 internment camps for ethnic Uyghurs and other Muslims in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), one of the world’s foremost experts on mass incarcerations in the region told RFA.Adrian Zenz, a lecturer in social r…