Currently, over one million Uyghurs, Kazakhs, and other Turkic Muslim peoples are detained in what Chinese authorities have termed ‘re-education camps’ in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, Northwest China (PRC).

These developments have raised profound concerns worldwide. Reliable and systematic documentation of the ongoing situation is important considering the size and scope of these activities, the silence and fear experienced by these people, as well as Chinese state-directed erasure of the existing evidence.

The Xinjiang Documentation Project, prepared by the Institute of Asian Research at the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs, offers a chronological documentation of reports on the ongoing troubling events in Xinjiang.

The project aims to provide a reading guide about the recent developments, experts’ explanations, as well as an understanding of what ethnic Uyghurs and Kazakhs are going through on a daily basis. It further aims to integrate research methods from social science, humanities, and other disciplines for the documentation and analysis of the on-ground situation.

Resources will be updated regularly.

For more information please contact: xinjiang.documentation@ubc.ca