Editing Sinicization (section)

====Xinjiang====
{{Main|Xinjiang conflict|Xinjiang internment camps|Persecution of Uyghurs in China}}

The [[Hui Muslim]] [[36th Division (National Revolutionary Army)]] governed the southern region of [[Xinjiang]] in 1934–1937. The administration that was set up was colonial in nature, importing Han cooks and baths,<ref>{{cite book|author=Andrew D. W. Forbes|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IAs9AAAAIAAJ&q=ma+hushan&pg=PA134|title=Warlords and Muslims in Chinese Central Asia: a political history of Republican Sinkiang 1911–1949|publisher=CUP Archive|year=1986|isbn=0-521-25514-7|location=Cambridge, England|page=130|access-date=2010-06-28|archive-date=2023-09-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230927041550/https://books.google.com/books?id=IAs9AAAAIAAJ&q=ma+hushan&pg=PA134#v=snippet&q=ma%20hushan&f=false|url-status=live}}</ref> changing the [[Uyghur language|Uyghur-language]]-only street names and signs to Chinese, as well as switching carpet patterns in state-owned carpet factories from Uyghur to Han.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IAs9AAAAIAAJ&q=ma+hushan&pg=PA134|title=Warlords and Muslims in Chinese Central Asia: a political history of Republican Sinkiang 1911–1949|author=Andrew D. W. Forbes|year=1986|publisher=CUP Archive|location=Cambridge, England|isbn=0-521-25514-7|page=131|access-date=2010-06-28|archive-date=2023-09-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230927041550/https://books.google.com/books?id=IAs9AAAAIAAJ&q=ma+hushan&pg=PA134#v=snippet&q=ma%20hushan&f=false|url-status=live}}</ref>

Strict surveillance and mass detentions of Uyghurs in the [[Xinjiang internment camps]] is a part of the ongoing sinicization policy by the [[Chinese Communist Party]] (CCP).<ref>{{Cite news |title=Chinese official says 'sinicization' of religion in Xinjiang must go on |work=[[South China Morning Post]], [[Reuters]] |url=https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2168460/chinese-official-says-sinicization-religion-xinjiang-must-go |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200110150415/https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2168460/chinese-official-says-sinicization-religion-xinjiang-must-go |archive-date=2020-01-10}}</ref> Since 2015, it has been estimated that over a million Uyghurs have been detained in these camps.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.rfa.org/english/news/uyghur/detainees-11232019223242.html|title=Expert Says 1.8 Million Uyghurs, Muslim Minorities Held in Xinjiang's Internment Camps|last=Lipes|first=Joshua|date=November 24, 2019|work=[[Radio Free Asia]]|access-date=November 28, 2019|archive-date=November 28, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191128002703/https://www.rfa.org/english/news/uyghur/detainees-11232019223242.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url= https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-rights-un/u-n-says-it-has-credible-reports-china-holds-million-uighurs-in-secret-camps-idUSKBN1KV1SU |title= U.N. says it has credible reports China holds million Uighurs in secret camps |work= Reuters |date= 10 August 2018 |access-date= 10 August 2018 |archive-date= 12 January 2020 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20200112115131/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-rights-un/u-n-says-it-has-credible-reports-china-holds-million-uighurs-in-secret-camps-idUSKBN1KV1SU |url-status= live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|date=2019-11-24|title=Data leak details China's 'brainwashing system'|language=en-GB|work=BBC News|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-50511063|access-date=2020-07-21|archive-date=2019-11-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191126020034/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-50511063|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/former-inmates-of-chinas-muslim-re-education-camps-tell-of-brainwashing-torture/2018/05/16/32b330e8-5850-11e8-8b92-45fdd7aaef3c_story.html|title= Former inmates of China's Muslim 're-education' camps tell of brainwashing, torture|work= www.washingtonpost.com|access-date= 17 May 2018|archive-date= 16 May 2018|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20180516195117/https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/former-inmates-of-chinas-muslim-re-education-camps-tell-of-brainwashing-torture/2018/05/16/32b330e8-5850-11e8-8b92-45fdd7aaef3c_story.html|url-status= live}}</ref> The camps were established under [[General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party|CCP General Secretary]] [[Xi Jinping]]'s [[Xi Jinping Core Administration|administration]] with the main goal of ensuring adherence to national ideology.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/11/16/world/asia/china-xinjiang-documents.html|title='Absolutely No Mercy': Leaked Files Expose How China Organized Mass Detentions of Muslims|last1=Ramzy|first1=Austin|date=2019-11-16|work=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=2019-11-16|last2=Buckley|first2=Chris|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=2020-01-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200108214926/https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/11/16/world/asia/china-xinjiang-documents.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Critics of China's treatment of Uyghurs have accused the Chinese government of propagating a policy of sinicization in Xinjiang in the 21st century, calling this policy a [[cultural genocide]], or [[ethnocide]], of Uyghurs.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/china-muslim-children-uighur-family-separation-thought-education-a8989296.html |title="'Cultural genocide': China separating thousands of Muslim children from parents for 'thought education'" – The Independent, 5 July 2019 |website=[[Independent.co.uk]] |date=5 July 2019 |access-date=27 April 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200422051855/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/china-muslim-children-uighur-family-separation-thought-education-a8989296.html |archive-date=22 April 2020 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=17 December 2019 |title='Cultural genocide' for repressed minority of Uighurs |website=[[The Times]] |url=https://www.thetimes.com/article/cultural-genocide-for-repressed-minority-of-uighurs-bp0w6dw89 |url-status=live |access-date=27 April 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200425012712/https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/cultural-genocide-for-repressed-minority-of-uighurs-bp0w6dw89 |archive-date=25 April 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last1=Zand |first1=Bernhard |date=28 November 2019 |title=China's Oppression of the Uighurs 'The Equivalent of Cultural Genocide' |newspaper=[[Der Spiegel]] |url=https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/chinese-oppression-of-the-uighurs-like-cultural-genocide-a-1298171.html |url-status=live |access-date=27 April 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200121105242/https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/chinese-oppression-of-the-uighurs-like-cultural-genocide-a-1298171.html |archive-date=21 January 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last1=Shepherd |first1=Christian |date=12 September 2019 |title=Fear and oppression in Xinjiang: China's war on Uighur culture |newspaper=[[Financial Times]] |url=https://www.ft.com/content/48508182-d426-11e9-8367-807ebd53ab77 |url-status=live |access-date=27 April 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200414154451/https://www.ft.com/content/48508182-d426-11e9-8367-807ebd53ab77 |archive-date=14 April 2020}}</ref>