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US 'deeply disturbed' by reports of systematic rape of Muslims in China camps

The Chinese national flag flies outside the mosque at the Xinjiang International Grand Bazar. [Reuters]

The United States is “deeply disturbed” by reports of systematic rape and sexual abuse against women in internment camps for ethnic Uighurs and other Muslims in China’s Xinjiang region and there must be serious consequences for atrocities committed there, the U.S. State Department said on Wednesday.

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