A series of allegations from former detainees living abroad have raised concerns about torture, rape, forced labour, forced marriage, sterilisation and even medical experimentation and organ harvesting in Xinjiang, while academic studies have asserted that Chinese policy is one of cultural eradication. However, the Chinese government maintains that these vocational training centres are an effort to fight religious extremist terrorism and to alleviate poverty in Xinjiang; riots, bombings, and knife attacks have been carried out by Uighur separatists of the Turkistan Islamic Party numerous times over the last decade, the UN recognises the Turkistan Islamic Party as a terrorist organisation. Is china committing a genocide ?

