'Many of these incidents have been a wake up call to party leaders, who thought that religion was something that was going to go away,' he said. Professor Hillman said that recent Islamic terror attacks in Xinjiang by Islamic Uighurs and in Tibet by Tibetan Buddhists in 20 had disturbed the CCP.
Mr Zakir claimed the training centres were for people 'who are influenced by terrorism and extremism, and those suspected of minor criminal offenses' who could be exempted from criminal punishment. China denies it is holding people in 'concentration camps' and claims it is taking security measures to fight terrorism in Xinjiang.
