An Inside Look At China’s Internment of Muslims, with BuzzFeed News’ Megha Rajagopalan

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Alex Kantrowitz

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4.6 • 395 Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2020

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

China’s mass internment of Muslims in its Xinjiang region is one of the world's most under-covered stories The country has detained one million people there, putting them through a “re-education” program meant to erase their language and culture, sometimes through forced labor and sterilization. Though comprehensive, on-the-ground reporting from Xinjiang is sparse, BuzzFeed News reporter Megha Rajagopalan has been on the story from the beginning. She joins the podcast to discuss her reports from Xinjiang itself, and how she worked with BuzzFeed contributors to monitor the internment camps using satellite imagery, finding that they are expanding.

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0:00.0	From LinkedIn News, I'm Leah Smart, host of Everyday Better, an award-winning podcast dedicated to personal development.
0:06.2	Join me every week for captivating stories and research to find more fulfillment in your work and personal life.
0:11.8	Listen to Every Day Better on the LinkedIn Podcast Network, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:17.4	I'm Tomer Cohen, LinkedIn's chief product officer.
0:20.6	If you're just as curious as I am about the way things are built, then tune into my podcast, building one.
0:26.7	I speak with some of the best product builders out there.
0:29.2	I've always been inspired by frustration.
0:31.9	It came back to my own personal pinpoint.
0:34.0	So we had to go out to farmers and convince them.
0:37.2	Following that curiosity is a superpower.
0:39.9	You have to be obsessed with the human condition. Listen to Building One on Apple Podcasts or wherever you
0:45.0	get your podcasts. Hey, Megha. How's it going? I'm good. How are you? I'm great. Is it okay
0:51.9	if we speak a little bit about you getting kicked out of Beijing?
0:55.7	Yeah, yeah, sure.
0:56.9	Okay, cool.
1:08.9	Hello and welcome to the big technology podcast.
1:11.6	Today on the show we have one of my former colleagues, Megha Roger Gopalon, who's an international correspondent at BuzzFeed News.
1:18.6	And I'm really excited to bring Mega on today because she has done the leading reporting on what's happening in Xinjiang region in China, where millions or about around a million people,
1:31.7	according to reports, have been detained in some way for questionable for crimes.
1:37.5	We don't even know exactly what's happening.
1:40.1	They've been largely Muslim, and there's a program going on inside China to essentially
1:46.9	forcibly assimilate these folks.
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