This is a complex of extrajudicial detention centres/prisons in Xinjiang's Aksu.
It has 35 multistory residential buildings to detain Uyghurs and other 'unloyal' ethnicities for acts of culture and faith.
It covers 126 hectares. 42x the size of Britain's Houses of Parliament.
It has 35 multistory residential buildings to detain Uyghurs and other 'unloyal' ethnicities for acts of culture and faith.
It covers 126 hectares. 42x the size of Britain's Houses of Parliament.
These walls are 15m tall, with 25m tall watchtowers every 300m around the perimeter of each internment camp. This is in addition to generally 6 layers of tall, barbed wire fencing between each residential building and the outside world.
Each one has multiple large guardhouse buildings, which is directly connected to the perimeter wall by a bridge. These guardhouses are each 4 storeys tall. This means each camp has 6,400m of floorspace just for guardhouses. An office of that size would likely have >500 employees.
It seems that even this intense level of security is not enough for Beijing's crackdown on Uyghurs and other non-Han minorities.
Each camp has detainee processing buildings both inside and outside of the wall. Detainees are forced through a 5m-wide 'channel' to enter.
Each camp has detainee processing buildings both inside and outside of the wall. Detainees are forced through a 5m-wide 'channel' to enter.
Prior to the massive, brutal & indescriminate crackdown against Uyghur people, plus other non-Han nationalities, there was nothing here, it was all barren dessert. This carceral nightmare, this detention regime/infrastucture exists purely to enforce this draconian crackdown.
Quick correction! When I posted this (at midnight) I did my trig wrong and calculated the hypotenuse rather than the height, the wall is actually ~only~ 8m tall with 13m tall watchtowers.
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