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S based think tank claims authorities in China's northwest are forcing hundreds of thousands of ethnic minorities toe work in the region's cotton fields.

Xinjiang, in China's northwest, produces about 20% of the world's cotton cotton.

That is potentially making its way into the manufacturing chains off major world retailers.

Now you'll probably remember Xinjiang from the numerous times we have reported on Chinese re education camps, where experts believe some one million ethnic Uighur, Kazak and other Muslim minorities have been interned as a counterterrorism measure.

Inmates have been released, have complained off torture, beatings and indoctrination in Chinese Communist Party thought Here's more.

It's scenes of her family outing with zero ah well harm her husband, tour son John and their little daughter by on our in Turkey a safe location for now.

But for God's era, a normal life is still far away, she says.

E still wake up from nightmares in which I see myself in a Chinese internment camp again, Theo images and memories of the interrogation of the beatings and the things they did to him in their haunt me, I then feel sick for a few days and I can't sleep.

In 2017 goes era, Ilhan was arrested in Xinjiang, China's westernmost region.

She's an ethnic casa born in China and was living in Kazakhstan at the time.

On a trip back to China, she was detained by police and then held for a year in several reeducation camps.

You were not allowed to pause, scratch your head or cry.

If they saw that they would force you onto a metal chair, they would make you sit there for 12 hours, 24 hours.

You were tied to the chair and if you tried to move, it would get tighter.

Then they make you repeat Chinese words that you didn't know if you forgot them.

They used on electroshock device on your head.

Back in Kazakhstan, her family did not know where she waas.

At the same time, authorities in China suddenly started to detain large numbers off the region's Muslim minorities.

The local government sought to portray the camps as vocational training centers, being the training centers, air not at all.

Like some media have described them, students are not mistreated, and their personal freedoms are not limited.

Thes air schools that help improve people's personal qualities.

I traveled to the region to look for myself.

One of the camps go zero was taken to was middle school number four off Buja County.

Satellite imagery shows how in 2018, a high wall was built around the school and huts were built in the courtyard.

Today, the school is back to what it waas.

China has declared that all trainees had graduated a claim that is hard to verify.

Another facility where she was held sits just around the corner.

It is officially called a vocational technical school.

A high wall was later taken down and replaced with a fence.

It's name is not found on educational websites.

Official reports highlight that all trainees were farmers and herdsmen from surrounding villages.

In this area that means mostly ethnic minorities.

It is impossible to know under what circumstances they attend the school, and while this does not look like a high security prison, the gates are closed.

The young men were quietly in lines before entering the building.

Go Zero also told us that many off a former inmates were later transferred to regular prisons on the outskirts.

There are now five policemen following me.

A prison with watchtowers and another camp were both built in 2017 when the campaign against ethnic minorities took off.

If you film here, we will have to take measures against you things.

Place is a state secret goes era stayed more than a year in the camp, But even after she was officially released, her ordeal continued.

On our way back, we pass an industrial complex.

Go zero was sent toe work here after her release.

State TV showcases the factory as a model off successful poverty eradication.

Sure, I'm getting free food and accommodation.

Thes videos air a show off to the outside world.

People are being helped to make a living, but no one works there voluntarily.

There are cameras everywhere they threaten you.

If you refused to work here, you will go learning.

Thio go learning means being sent back to the camp.

Zero was told she was detained because she had been to Kazakhstan.

That was seen as a sign of being disloyal to China.

More and more observers are now calling what is happening in the region a genocide after reports of forced birth control, sterilization and abortions in the camp go zero recalls.

The inmates were administered injections of an unknown substance.

After the injection, some woman stopped having their periods.

Those who still had it were given one pad.

They had to use it for two or three days.

If they're period would come, it would come If not not we stopped being ashamed about it.

At some point we even stopped thinking of home.

Most of us had stopped crying by then, goes Era is one of the lucky ones.

She was finally allowed to leave after her husband had campaigned for her in Kazakhstan.

She has no news from her relatives in the region and for more.

I'm joined by Dalkon Esa, his president of the World Wigger Congress.

Issa, China's actions in these re education camps have been reported on and well documented for many years now.

Do you think the world has acted sufficiently against this?

Also, genocide is increasingly recognized by the widely public and several of the report.

But unfortunately yes, there is a some international reaction, just speaking, talking.

But we haven't seen any really action to stop the squiggle genocide.

So that's why we column toes internationally.

Particularly Western governments toe establish investigation toe, ensuring that appropriate legal determination regarding the Metro on our legal exists electricity.

Some sanctions against the Chinese government high level official, Chinese Communist Party high level official who has directly for the this week genocide, forced labor or this concentration camp, but a so so far we haven't seen any concrete action from the particular European countries or some other country.

That's why Chinese government continue continually and implemented this, uh, actress city and the genocide against Uber's now earlier on You said that the genocide against weaker people has been internationally recognized.

Yet despite that, the International Criminal Court has said it can't pursue a case against China for the internment of leakers and other ethnic minorities.

Do do you think that legitimizes China's claims that these camps are just vocational training centers?

Well, I see t International Criminal Code.

Yes, this is a very disappointed decision.

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