@CGTNOfficial asks: what are Xinjiang's re-education camps really about? CGTN produced several clips, but sadly omitted some of the most crucial evidence: government documents. Below is an easy step-by-step guide to what Beijing's own documents say about these camps. THREAD 
The Chinese government says that re-education work must "wash brains, cleanse hearts, support the right, remove the evil (洗脑净心扶正祛邪)". archive.is/ARyEg
It also specifically says that "Vocational Skills Education Training Centers wash clean the brains of people who became bewitched by the extreme religious ideologies of the ‘three forces’". archive.is/OowEo
Not all detainees might like that. Hence, camps must feature extensive “escape prevention” (防脱逃) measures. In 2018, 2 camps in Qira County were budgeted to spend 5 million RMB on “police equipment” as part of this (and other safety) requirements. archive.is/Qq5V5
Xinjiang pours extensive policing resources into preventing these detainees from escaping. For example, Poskam County’s 2019 budget states that its "vocational training" camps employ 435 security guards (保安员). archive.is/o/hEYxE/www.ka…
Qira County has 810 assistant police to guard vocational camps. That means that nearly 1/3 of its entire assistant police force is busy guarding "students". Which makes sense in light of the stringent security requirements outlined in the #ChinaCables. web.archive.org/web/2019031301…
Detailed local government lists showing the status of minority citizens, including the type of their internment (re-education, detention or prison), indicate adult internment shares in six Kashgar villages between 8.4% and 28.4%. Other samples feature similar shares.
In 2015, the secretary of Xinjiang's justice department's party committee noted that 30% of the masses are "polluted by religious extremism" and require "concentrated education...work". When they are “transformed" (转化过来), a region is "cleansed". web.archive.org/web/2019092013…
Sorry, but most of the interned are not pretty young women, like the ones you showcase. Rather, re-education targets social authority figures such as household heads, with a clear focus on males aged 30-59. No. 12 village in Azatbag Township had 50.5% of household heads interned.
This is a chart that plots the age cohorts of three internment samples against data from the 2010 census. Young persons below 30 are less likely to be interned than those aged 30-59.
As a result of internment, net population growth rates in Uyghur and other ethnic minority regions have declined dramatically in both 2017 and 2018. This is not likely just the result of internment; it might reflect the impact of the wider police state on family planning.
Also, it likely reflects the impact of forced family separation through different forms of involuntary labor. jpolrisk.com/beyond-the-cam…
By the way, if you don't like my internment number estimates, which (as I have always said) are inherently speculative, why don't you ask the Xinjiang government? They got extremely detailed records, not only of the internment, but also of its dramatic negative social impact.
Your government has been making it harder to find this important material, and removed websites, sometimes the very day after I include them in publications. But I archived them. @WangGuanCGTN, please consider donating to web.archive.org. They are doing a tremendous job.
Meanwhile, Xinjiang embarked on an all-out witch hunt to suppress officials from leaking any information on the camps. They are "strictly forbidden" to respond to related media interviews or to reveal any information for any reason at all. Explains why you can't report on this.
P.P.S.: CGTN chides the @CHRDnet study for estimating 1 million detainees based on only 8 interviews. Indeed a tiny sample size. But ironically, the internment shares estimated by those 8 locals are not far off from the internment shares reported by 3 townships, also from Kashgar
Their estimated 8%-20% general population internment shares are about equivalent to 12%-30% adult internment shares. But I agree that their extrapolation of the internment scale has severe limitations (which they acknowledge in the study).
Link to study: nchrd.org/2018/08/china-…
Link to study: nchrd.org/2018/08/china-…
