Absolutely No Mercy

Published: Dec. 10, 2019, 10:51 a.m.

A trove of private government documents offers an unprecedented look inside China\u2019s highly organized crackdown on Uighur Muslims \u2014 revealing Beijing\u2019s systematic detention of as many as one million people in camps and prisons over the past three years. In one speech, China\u2019s president ordered his subordinates to show prisoners in Xinjiang \u201cabsolutely no mercy.\u201d Guest: Paul Mozur, a technology reporter for The New York Times based in Shanghai. For more information on today\u2019s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily.\xa0\n\nBackground reading:In one of the biggest leaks of the last half-century, The Times obtained more than 400 pages of internal documents revealing the meticulous planning that has gone into the Chinese government\u2019s crackdown on ethnic minorities.Yesterday we followed our correspondent into the heart of Xinjiang, where one woman risked her life to talk about her experience in China\u2019s system of torture and surveillance.