‘Like a war zone’: Congress hears of China’s abuses in Xinjiang ‘re-education camps’

Two women tell of witnessing or experiencing torture and brainwashing, as Republicans and Democrats vow to document genocide'

Two women who say they experienced and escaped Chinese re-education camps" have provided first-hand testimony to members of the US Congress, giving harrowing detail while imploring Americans not to look away from what the US has declared a continuing genocide of Muslim ethnic minorities.

Testifying before a special House committee at the beginning of Ramadan, Gulbahar Haitiwaji, a Uyghur woman, said that during her nearly three years in internment camps and police stations, prisoners were subjected to 11 hours of brainwashing education" each day. It included singing patriotic songs and praising the Chinese government before and after meals.