Our cover leader this week. "The persecution of the Uyghurs is a crime against humanity ... If liberals say nothing about today’s single worst violation outside a war zone, how can anyone believe their criticism of other, lesser crimes?" https://twitter.com/TheEconomist/status/1316680972876775424

And @gadyepstein: "attempt to erase Uyghurs’...cultural identity & crush their Islamic faith has not only caused immense suffering for the more than 1-in-10 Uyghurs who have been sent to camps, bt also blighted lives of their 100s of thousands of children" https://www.economist.com/china/2020/10/17/how-xinjiangs-gulag-tears-families-apart

Truly shocking. "These data, if extrapolated across Xinjiang, imply that around 250,000 of the region’s ~3m Uyghurs under the age of 15 have had one or both parents interned ... 880,500 children had been placed in boarding facilities by the end of 2019" https://www.economist.com/china/2020/10/17/how-xinjiangs-gulag-tears-families-apart

"Uyghur women are being fitted with intrauterine devices at a rate far higher than in China as a whole, according a report in June by the Associated Press ... Women with three children are at greatest risk of being forcibly sterilised." https://www.economist.com/china/2020/10/17/how-xinjiangs-gulag-tears-families-apart

"Han “relatives” stay as often as every month with Uyghur families for ten days at a time ... Hosts have to show enthusiasm, or face repercussions. Ms Dawut’s then ten-year-old daughter was assigned a 20-year-old man as kin" https://www.economist.com/china/2020/10/17/how-xinjiangs-gulag-tears-families-apart