Canada's Parliament just voted to declare it a genocide. https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/uighur-genocide-motion-vote-1.5922711 And I've been seeing a lot of conflicting takes on it on twitter and here. From what I can gather from researching the main issue is lack of indication of full on genocide there, but there also seems to be a fair amount of evidence that these camps do exist. I fail to see how that is "good" as people on this site appear to be indicating?
My issue with this is, rehabilitation for what, precisely?
Extreme religious zealotry
Cool, there's definitely no room for creative interpretation there
It's one of the poorest regions in China and Uighurs along with the other Turkish minorities in the region have a particularly hard time integrating with the Chinese economy mostly due to the language barrier. This poverty, along with cultural differences and geographic proximity to Afghanistan and Pakistan, have made the Uighurs a ripe recruiting ground for Wahhabists and Turkish nationalists in the area (who probably have links to the CIA or similar organizations). US intelligence estimated around 10,000 Uighurs fought for the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq (quite a ways from China) and some of them undoubtedly returned to China where a number of terrorist attacks have happened that have been claimed by groups like IS and ETIM. A lot of it is preventative rather than reactive and that does require a degree of profiling, but I think all things considered, requiring adults to attend school so they can be more successful and not become jihadists is not that bad.