In this opinion piece, the Washington Post Editorial Board sheds light on the separation of children from their families in the Xinjiang province of China, where "thousands of minors from the Uighur and Kazakh ethnic minorities have been involuntarily separated from their families and sent to orphanages and boarding schools, where they are being taught to abandon their native languages and Muslim faith for Mandarin Chinese and the Communist Party."
According to the article, it is estimated that 1 million people have been detained in "political reeducation camps." A report from AP cited documents indicating that the Chinese government has allocated $30 million to building or expanding 45 orphanages this year "with enough beds to house about 5,000 children." Others are sent to boarding schools where contact with their families is very limited and the facilities are heavily guarded. The article calls for more to be done to bring attention to these violations of human rights and put international pressure on the government to end this practice.