A decade after deadly riots tore through northwestern China where Muslim Uighurs live, the region of Xinjiang is blanketed in police surveillance and checkpoints.
In this photo taken Tuesday, July 7, 2009, a Uighur woman protests before a group of paramilitary police when journalists visited the area in the aftermath of riots in Urumqi in western China's Xinjiang region.
Hundreds of rioters smashed storefronts, overturned cars and busses and sent some ablaze. The fury followed reports that two Uighur migrant workers were killed by Han Chinese co-workers at a factory in southern China, crystalizing long-held resentment over religious, linguistic and ethnic prejudices.
Analysts say the Urumqi riots set in motion the harsh security measures now in place across Xinjiang, whereare estimated to be held in heavily guarded internment camps. A series of violent incidents in Xinjiang and elsewhere, including the hacking deaths of dozens of civilians at a busy train station and bomb and vehicle attacks, also prompted authorities to take increasingly harsh measures against those suspected of radical inclinations.
Traveling abroad, growing a long beard or showing other ordinary signs of religious or ethnic identity could land one in a camp.as people who had not been convicted of any crimes but were rather “influenced by terrorism and extremism” or “suspected of minor criminal offenses.”
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