Hello and welcome to the intelligence on Economist Radio.

I'm your host, Jason Palmer.

Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. In China's northwestern province of Xinjiang,

the government has locked up more than a million Uyghurs,

a Muslim minority, in a vast gulag.

The whole province is a surveillance state within a surveillance state.

The government claims it's de-radicalizing a population prone to separatism.

People in Xinjiang enjoy happy life.

People call for good order to restore in Xinjiang.

China, of course, is strongly opposed to any torture, any persecution,

and discrimination of any ethnic group people. This is not the case in China.

The reality is that it's carrying out crimes against humanity.

We're going to take a look at how the repression is tearing families apart

and preventing Uyghurs from even having families.

We'll speak with exiled Uyghurs forced always to look over their shoulders.

And we'll find deeper complexity in the party's ethnic repression

on a visit to a tourist town in southwestern China.

The government is persecuting not only adults, but hundreds of thousands of children too.

Reporting by the economist has unearthed government documents that show not de-radicalization, it's a campaign

to crush the Uyghurs Islamic faith, to erase their cultural identity, to chip away in their

minds and in their bloodlines at what makes them Uyghurs.

It's difficult to get first-hand accounts of what's happening.

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