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I’m sure you’ve all heard the narrative on Xinjiang. China holds one million Uighurs in concentration camps. It’s an enormous human rights violation and proof China is evil, unlike that shining light of moral rectitude and purity the United States (which would never, ever, ever do anything to harm Muslims).

That figure 1 million is repeated again and again. China concentration camps one million Uighurs.

One million.

One million.

One million.

Repeat a claim enough and it becomes fact. Everybody accepts it. Nobody thinks about what it would actually take to concentration camp one million Uighurs.

Let’s use some common sense.

How much space would you actually need to intern one million people?

This is a photo of Rikers Island, New York City’s biggest prison. (A side-note, but I have nothing against Rikers. As an island, it is simply easy to use for comparison purposes.)

The actual size of a facility interning ten thousand people.

According to Wikipedia, “The average daily inmate population on the island is about 10,000, although it can hold a maximum of 15,000.”

Let’s assume this is a Xinjiang detention camp, holding ten to fifteen thousand people. (Note: I have never seen a picture of a supposed Xinjiang detention camp remotely comparable to the size of the above image).

How many of these would it take to hold one million people?

Let’s do some math:

Rikers Size	Rikers Prisoners	One Million Uighurs Size
413.2 acres (0.645 square miles)	10,000 to 15,000	43 to 64 square miles

Now in reality, one million Uighurs would probably take more space; all the supposed detention camps we see are much less dense than Rikers. (For evidence, look at the material I’ve attached to the bottom).

For comparison, San Francisco is 47 square miles. Amsterdam is 64 square miles.

You’d literally need detention camps that total the size of San Francisco or Amsterdam to intern one million Uighurs.

It’d be like looking at a map of California. There’s Los Angeles. There’s San Diego. And look, there’s San Francisco Concentration City with its one million Uighurs.

Literally visible to the naked eye from space.

Conclusion

Next time a Five Eyes agent blabbers on about one million Uighurs, ask them to show the detention cities that total the size of Amsterdam or San Francisco.

Random pictures of desert buildings doesn’t cut it. Ask for the cities.

Ask for Rikers Island, multiplied by one hundred.

You can’t hide cities with hundreds of thousands of people.

And of course, they won’t be able to show those detention cities. Because there are no one million Uighurs. The Weapons of Mass Destruction don’t exist.

Actual Size of Supposed Xinjiang Detention Camp

As a side project, I decided to compare Rikers Island to a widely shared image of a supposed Xinjiang detention camp, on Google Images.

Here’s a comparison.

We can tell that these images are the same dimension because the cars are the same size. I have attached another image showing this.

The cars are the same width.

One obvious thing to note is that Rikers is far more dense than the Xinjiang structure.

Here’s the whole of Rikers Island.

It’s far bigger.