Over the last few years, the numbers out of Xinjiang came into focus, but because the media faces strict restrictions in this remote part of their country, the picture does not. There would be no images of crying children, separated families, or dead-eyed prisoners. Perhaps some aerial imagery that shows the development of a camp gives us a glimpse of this systematic effort to grind the identity out of a minority group through the relentless application of control. But this would not be something that we would be forced to reckon with through our own eyes.
