China has detained up to a million Muslims, a campaign it calls a benevolent and routine effort against the pull of extremism. But 403 pages of Communist Party documents we obtained reveal how officials plotted to carry out a ruthless, coercive clampdown. nyti.ms/2CV2z01
The documents — one of the most significant leaks from inside China's Communist Party in decades — reveal secret speeches by President Xi Jinping laying the groundwork for a crackdown that put a million or more Muslim minorities into camps. "Show absolutely no mercy," he said. 
Publicly, Chinese officials say the Xinjiang camps provide job training. But privately, the documents show, they used words like "virus," "infected" and "eradicate" to justify mass detentions and plotted how they would manage and intimidate families that were torn apart.
Chinese officials were concerned enough about anger due to their campaign, the documents show, that they distributed a chillingly bureaucratic guide for answering questions from those whose relatives disappeared, saying they were receiving training for "their own good"
In private, Chinese leaders displayed a fixation with radical Islam that went beyond their public remarks. The documents show they worried about terrorist attacks abroad, and President Xi urged officials to study Americans' response to the Sept. 11 attacks.
The documents also show how a hard-liner named Chen Quanguo used fear to mobilize officials to carry out mass detentions. “Round up everyone who should be rounded up.”
New security controls and a drastic expansion of indoctrination camps followed.
New security controls and a drastic expansion of indoctrination camps followed.
At least one official resisted, the documents show. Wang Yongzhi released more than 7,000 inmates — and was then detained, stripped of power and prosecuted.
He was made an example of publicly. But the government hid the fact of his resistance in an internal report.
He was made an example of publicly. But the government hid the fact of his resistance in an internal report.
We’ve published in full one of the documents that show how Chinese officials in Xinjiang planned to explain to Muslims and others affected by the crackdown that their parents or families were being detained in camps. Read it here: nyti.ms/2XhLabu
Read our full story of how more than 400 pages of internal Chinese documents provide an unprecedented look — in Chinese officials' own words — at the state's secretive crackdown on Muslims in Xinjiang nyti.ms/37f3aHV
We hope you'll take the time to read our full investigation on the leak of Chinese government documents and the state's mass detention of Muslims. But if you don't have time now, here are 5 takeaways. nyti.ms/2psOxzS
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