Looking at a Blindspot: The Re-Education Camps of Xinjiang, China

Charlie Platts
25 min readAug 6, 2019

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Your eyes open awake but it doesn’t feel like you’ve slept. The sleep was dreamless and restless. It’s morning, roughly two hours since you managed to pass out. Last night was your turn on the floor: you’ll have to sleep standing up — or not at all — for the next five nights until you get the floor again. It feels like you’ve wasted your go, like it…

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