[genoapol]

>China has nation-wide policoes about fertility (the one child policy and its regional variations) so it's not clear if the Uighurs are especially singled out or simply punished for not respecting a national law.

The interesting fact is, the one child policy, in all its year of existence, never applied to Uighars and non-Han muslims.

Makes me think these camps are precisely what they say they are, "to nonviolently deal with extremists and separatists".

The alternative would be an Afghanistan-like war to rid certain areas of extremist groups which would probably result in major collateral damage and more innocent casualties.