BEIJING -- Officials from China's remote western region of Xinjiang on Tuesday denied the existence of concentration camps for ethnic Uighur people, saying instead that many Muslims there attended schools aimed at eliminating terrorism.
They are vocational school-style training centers for "eliminating the soil for the survival of terrorism," Shohrat Zakir, chairman of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, told reporters on the sidelines of the National People's Congress in Beijing.
