Since 2014,[1] the Chinese government under the Xi Jinping Administration has pursued a policy which has led to more than one million Muslims[2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11] (the majority of them Uyghurs)[2][12][13] being held in secretive detention camps without any legal process[14][15][16] in what has become the largest-scale detention of ethnic and religious minorities since the Holocaust.[17] Critics of the policy have described it as the sinicization of Xinjiang and have called it an ethnocide or cultural genocide,[15][18][19][20][21][22] while many activists, independent NGOs, human rights experts, government officials and the East Turkistan Government-in-Exile have called it a genocide.[2][10][23][24][25][26][27][28]