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The People’s Republic of China has placed millions of indigenous Uyghur and Kazakh citizens into what the government calls “surplus labour” and “labour transfer” programmes.
The government claims these programmes are in accordance with PRC law and that workers are engaged voluntarily, in a concerted government -supported effort to alleviate poverty.
But significant evidence -largely drawn from government and corporate sources – reveals that labour transfers are deployed in the Uyghur Region within an environment of unprecedented coercion, under girded by the constant threat of re-education and internment.