WASHINGTON DC - A new report from a leading expert on the use of forced labour in China's Xinjiang region claims that up to 1.6 million Uyghur Muslim prisoners are at risk of being shipped to other parts of China to work in industries including textiles and garment manufacturing.
Adrian Zenz, a senior fellow at the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, says he has gained access to new evidence for his latest study, entitled 'Coercive Labor and Forced Displacement in Xinjiang’s Cross-Regional Labor Transfer Program'.
He says this evidence indicates that workers are being transferred not only for economic reasons but also "to forcibly displace ethnic minority populations from their heartlands, intentionally reducing their population density and tearing apart homogeneous communities".