The Chinese Communist Party is committing serious, horrifying crimes against its Uighur Muslim population. The world has known about what happens in China’s Xinjiang region for years, but viral drone footage released this weekend, taken several months back, serves as a reminder that a genocide is occurring in one of the most powerful countries in the world and that China has never had to answer for it.

In the footage, which was originally leaked in September 2019, Uighur Muslims are seen bound and blindfolded, waiting to be loaded onto train cars:

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