Uyghur Special Behind Xi Jinping’s Great Wall of Iron How China’s Uyghur population became the target of a merciless campaign of collective punishment. By John Simpson The New Statesman February 16, 2022 Photo by Guang Niu/Getty Images The 12 million Uyghurs in Xinjiang, China, are suffering one of the most intense policies of collective punishment since the end of the Second World War: a campai..