Shohrat Zakir. - Reuters filepic
BEIJING: China is saving ethnic minority Muslims from the lure of religious extremism by teaching them to speak Mandarin and accept modern science, a senior Chinese official said in a report, Beijing’s latest effort to defend its internment of Muslims against mounting criticism.
Shohrat Zakir, governor of the far west Xinjiang region, described the mass internment of Uighur and Kazakh Muslims as “free vocational training” that also gave people skills to work in factories, according to remarks carried in a report by the official Xinhua News Agency.
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