Leaked papers link Xinjiang crackdown with Chinese leadership
Excerpts from previously unpublished documents directly linking China’s crackdown on Uighur Muslims and other minorities in Xinjiang province to speeches by the Chinese leadership in 2014 have been put online. The documents — including three speeches by Chinese President Xi Jinping (習近平) in April 2014 — cover security, population control and the need to punish the Uighur population. Some are marked top secret. They were leaked to the Uighur Tribunal, an independent people’s tribunal based in the UK. In the documents, the highest levels of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader...