BEIJING: China has thanked Kazakhstan for supporting its crackdown on the restive far west region of Xinjiang, where Beijing is accused of rights abuses against minority groups, including ethnic Kazakhs.
According to a statement by the Chinese foreign ministry, Atamkulov said his country"understands and supports the measures taken by China's Xinjiang region" to rein in terrorism, separatism and extremism. But it said the two top diplomats discussed the"issue of the situation with ethnic Kazakhs living in" China.
One former detainee, a Kazakh national who was born in Xinjiang, told AFP that the camps only had one objective - to strip detainees of their religious belief.
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