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 its 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. Clearly the Uyghurs in Xinjiang are unable to speak out,

but some brave souls have managed to escape and to tell their story.

Our China Affairs Editor, Gadi Epstein, has been speaking to one of them.

For Zumret Da'Wood and her three children, Fridays were probably the most terrifying day of the week.

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