Former Muslim detainee tells of China camp traumas Omir Bekali, an ethnic Kazakh says he spent several weeks in a Chinese re-education camp in Xinjiang before fleeing to Turkey a year ago. UN experts say China holds one million Muslims in camps in the heavily policed Xinjiang region where most of the country's ethnic Uyghur, the largest Muslim minority live. But for Omir, his experience in the camp was more about trauma than education. A natural sound version of an AFPTV report.