Persecution of Uyghurs in China

Why?

The Chinese government and the Uyghurs both laid claim to Xinjiang, which lead to an ethnic conflict between the two.

In 2014, the Chinese government released the Strike Hard Campaign Against Violent Terrorism. As a result of this, police recruitings skyrocketed, and society was divided into three catagories: trusted, average, and untrustworthy.
In 2017, the government had begun mass arrests, and new bans and regulations were inplemented. For example, abnormally long beards and the wearing of veils in public were banned.
- As well, China's Ministry of Public Security had begun making a race-based monitoring system, which had questionalbe accuracy on whether an individual was Nyghur or not.
Internment camps were built for housing student of re-education programs, and was "managed like the military and defended like a prison". The government didn't acknowledge the existance of these camps ontil 2018, where they called them "vocational training centers".
Use of these centers ended in 2019 due to international pressure, and most sites have been converted or abandoned as of 2022.

Especially since 2016, the government has used internment camps as its main way of controlling Xinjiang. And as of 2018, an estimate of 892K detainees were found, but later estimates found that detainees could be anywhere bewteen several hundred thousands and 1 million.
In 2021, an interview with a former Xinjiang officer revealed that when the police planned to raid a village,they arranged for the whole village to be in the same place so they could just rush in and make mass arrests. Other times, they would go door-to-door and pull people from their homes overnight. Once arrested, they would beat every person above the age of 14 until they kneeled and cried.

At least 177 deaths had been recorded in relation to deaths related to injuries, and more have reportedly occured due to starvation and lack of medical care.
Since the camps opened, an estimate of 5-10% of detainees died each year in the camps.
Detainees were often beaten to death during interregations.

Torture of various methods had been used, including, but not limited to, waterboarding (controlled drowning), sleep deprivation, electricution, and drugging.

For Classification, it was simply seperating the Ugyurs from the Han Chinese
(Not much on the second stage)
For Preperation, the Chinese government introduced anti-terrorism laws, which included the use of biometric technology to track millions of Uyghurs

Unlike a normal genocide, the persecution of Uyghurs was more about torture and rape rather than mass killings.