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It also summarizes the rationale presented internally, including counterterrorism framing, leadership guidance, and rapid expansion of internment after regional leadership changes.","11/20/2019 ‘Absolutely No Mercy’: Leaked Files Expose How China Organized Mass Detentions of Muslims-The New York Times  \nTHE XINJIANG PAPERS  \nʻAbsolutely No Mercyʼ: Leaked Files Expose How China Organized Mass Detentions of Muslims  \nMore than 400 pages of internal Chinese documents provide an unprecedented inside look at the crackdown on ethnic minorities in the Xinjiang region.  \nBY AUSTIN RAMZY AND CHRIS BUCKLEY  NOVEMBER 16 , 2019 阅读简体中文版  \n[https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/11/16/world/asia/china-xinjiang-documents.html](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/11/16/world/asia/china-xinjiang-documents.html) 1/33  \n11/20/2019 ‘Absolutely No Mercy’: Leaked Files Expose How China Organized Mass Detentions of Muslims-The New York Times  \nHONG KONG   The students booked their tickets home at the end of the  \nsemester, hoping for a relaxing break after exams and a summer of happy  \nreunions with family in China’s far west.  \nInstead, they would soon be told that their parents were gone, relatives  \nhad vanished and neighbors were missing—all of them locked up in an  \nexpanding network of detention camps built to hold Muslim ethnic  \nminorities.  \nThe authorities in the Xinjiang region worried the situation was a powder  \nkeg. And so they prepared.  \nThe leadership distributed a classified directive advising local officials to  \ncorner returning students as soon as they arrived and keep them quiet. It  \nincluded a chillingly bureaucratic guide for how to handle their anguished  \nquestions, beginning with the most obvious: Where is my family?  \n[https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/11/16/world/asia/china-xinjiang-documents.html](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/11/16/world/asia/china-xinjiang-documents.html) 2/33  \n“Theyʼre in a training school set up by the government,” the prescribed  \nanswer began. If pressed, officials were to tell students that their  \nrelatives were not criminals—yet could not leave these “schools ”  \n[https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/11/16/world/asia/china-xinjiang-documents.html](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/11/16/world/asia/china-xinjiang-documents.html) 3/33  \n11/20/2019 ‘Absolutely No Mercy’: Leaked Files Expose How China Organized Mass Detentions of Muslims-The New York Times  \nThe question-and-answer script also included a barely concealed  \nthreat: Students were to be told that their behavior could either  \nshorten or extend the detention of their relatives.  \n“Iʼm sure that you will support them, because this is for their own good,” officials were advised to say,“and also for your own good.”  \n[https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/11/16/world/asia/china-xinjiang-documents.html](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/11/16/world/asia/china-xinjiang-documents.html) 4/33  \n11/20/2019 ‘Absolutely No Mercy’: Leaked Files Expose How China Organized Mass Detentions of Muslims-The New York Times  \nThe directive was among 403 pages of internal documents that have been shared with The New York Times in one of the most significant leaks of government papers from inside China’s ruling Communist Party in decades. They provide an unprecedented inside view of the continuing clampdown in Xinjiang, in which the authorities have corralled as many as  \n\n| a million ethnic Uighurs, Kazakhs and others into internment camps and prisons over the past three years. |\n| --- |\n| Read the Full Document: What Chinese Officials Told Children Whose Families Were Put in Camps |\n\nThe party has rejected international criticism of the camps and described  \nthem as job-training centers that use mild methods to fight Islamic  \nextremism. But the documents confirm the coercive nature of the  \ncrackdown in the words and orders of the very officials who conceived and  \norchestrated it.  \nEven as the government presented its efforts in Xinjiang to the public as  \nbenevolent and unexceptional, it discussed and organized a ruthless and  \nextraordinary campaign in these internal communications. 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