A Uighur activist has spoken out against China's " Pair Up and Become Family " program, in which Han Chinese men are sent to live with Uighur women in China's western region of Xinjiang Rushan Abbas, a USbased Uighur activist whose family members have been detained in one of what is believed to be hundreds of detention centers in the region, told the Australian news outlet Newscomau that the program was part of a program of systemic rape against Uighur As with many of the government's other initiatives in Xinjiang, the "Pair Up and Become Family" program is presented as a way to rescue Muslim minorities from poverty The "Pair Up and Become Family" program is one of several repressive policies targeting Uyghurs in the region, which have also seen the build out of a vast network of camps, where authorities have held up to 15 million Uyghurs and other Muslim ethnic minorities accused of harboring "strong religious views" and "politically incorrect" ideas since April 17
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