China cables: Chinese ambassador says ‘don’t listen to fake news’ about Xinjiang camps – video
These were the words of China’s ambassador to the UK, Liu Xiaoming, after he was asked about a chain of detention camps holding more than a million people from the country’s Muslim minority population in Xinjiang. The footage, due to be broadcast by BBC Panorama on Monday evening, was recorded prior to publication of the China Cables, a leak of what appear to be classified documents from within the Communist party. The BBC’s Richard Bilton asked Liu to tell him the truth about these camps. The ambassador responded: ‘There’s no so-called labour camps, they are what we call vocational, education and training centres. They are there for the prevention of terrorists’
‘Don’t listen to fake news’: Chinese ambassador pressed over detention camps in Xinjiang – video
Read the Guardian’s coverage of the China cables:
- ‘Allow no escapes’: leak exposes reality of China’s vast prison camp network
- Secret memo on how to run China’s prison camps – annotated
- Revealed: power and reach of China’s surveillance dragnet
- Uighur man’s 10-year sentence shows harsh reality of Chinese repression
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