Through its systematic attempt to silence and eliminate Uighur cultural identity in the Xinjiang province, China has been embarking upon projects that criminalise Uyghur activities in order to cleanse the Muslim minority of its particularism.
It has been clear for some time that Beijing's actions have flouted international law, but research now shows that China is breaking its own laws by relentlessly hounding Turkic people on its northwestern land.
Under increasingly repressive forms of trauma, the Uighur minority are undergoing a torturous process of ethnic cleansing by the Chinese authorities. Yet for those that survive their mental relief is short-lived, continually reminded of past horrors.
Uighur women and girls are not only enduring unspeakable cruelties in internment camps, subject to draconian sterilisation procedures, rape and sexual violence, but also in their everyday home lives.
Feature: China's Xinjiang Province, while ruthlessly clamping down on its local Uighur Muslim population, is simultaneously rolling out its legendary Silk Road as a premier tourist destination.
