How China Persuaded One Muslim Nation to Keep Silent on Xinjiang Camps

December 11, 2019 | WSJ – The Wall Street Journal | By Jon Emont

A recent report by the Uyghur Human Rights Project, a nongovernment organization, found that more than 100 mosques have been damaged or destroyed in Beijing’s recent campaign in Xinjiang. Cemeteries and other structures with Uighur Islamic architecture also have been destroyed.

Omer Kanat, an ethnic Uighur who directs the Uyghur Human Rights Project in Washington, visited Jakarta earlier this year to lobby Islamic leaders to speak out against what he described as China’s use of detention camps to indoctrinate Uighurs and eliminate Islam.

He said some Indonesian Muslims leaders had already been visited by Chinese diplomats, and they were suspicious, asking him whether it was an American conspiracy that China mistreats Uighurs.

“They were so convinced with what the Chinese said,” Mr. Kanat said.

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