On July 15, 2019, Bill Gertz, the editor for The Washington Free Beacon reported that researchers with the East Turkistan National Awakening Movement, a relatively new Uyghur independence group, discovered the new camps during a nine-month open source intelligence gathering project that utilized commercial satellite images and reports people in the region.[14] They identified at least 124 internment camps,[15] 193 prisons, and 66 bingtuan labor camps along with 37 military facilities in Xinjiang.