NGA Tearline: "Boarding" Facilities Geolocated in Southern Xinjiang

Facilities identified where preschool-age Uyghur children are schooled and often housed in Qira (Chira).

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The following report is the third installment conducted by Senior International Defense Researcher, Ed Burke of the RAND Corporation.

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RAND identified 21 facilities that could be where western researchers, press accounts and professional journals indicate preschool-aged Uyghur children are schooled and often housed in Qira (Chira) County, Hotan prefecture.

This body of information led to the thesis that preschool age children in Xinjiang, left without parental supervision in their birth homes, were being both housed and schooled in what we have termed preschools.

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This report is the third in an ongoing collaboration Tearline with researchers at the RAND Corporation.  See Part 1, and Part 2 for background on China's "re-education" policies and detention activity in Western China.