A DNA Database Of Every Adult Resident In Troubled Xinjiang Region.
It’s no secret that the two regions most affected by China’s strict controls are Tibet and Xinjiang, the vast and troubled Western region where the turkic-speaking Uyghurs form the largest ethnic group. Earlier this year, we wrote about one fairly extreme surveillance technique in Xinjiang: a requirement for every vehicle there to be fitted with a tracking device. Now Human Rights Watch reports that an even more intrusive surveillance measure is being implemented for the region’s 24 million inhabitants.
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