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Finding Camps in Xinjiang

Satellite imagery was used to find the camps. A light grey square suddenly appeared above the location of the camp and then disappeared just as quickly as I zoomed in further. It's quite rare for maps and satellite images to have these blank spots because blank areas tend to draw attention to themselves. But here we got lucky. Obscuring the camps had inadvertently revealed all of their locations.

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