"When the department presents its annual report on the situation of human rights in different countries and China in a class by itself," says secretary Mike Pompeo at a press conference."
"the Americans are pointing at the internment camp in the northwest of China, where, according to some estimates, over a million people from the muslim minority, the uighurs, have been placed. China describes these as the re-education camps, or volunteer work camps."
" According to me we have not seen something like this since the 1930s, says Michael Kozak, head of the u.s. state department's human rights and demokratiavdelning."
"– To collect, according to estimates, millions of people, put them in camps, torture them, molest them, and try to erase their culture and religion from their dna. It is remarkably awful."