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Hi I recently began to investigate the forced labor camps in China and found this list:
Would somebody here be interested to help map these?
Verification on ground would be nice so lets add a fixme=”verify on ground” to all of them.
No. Location Floor area(m2) Building capacity (m2) Area expanded after 2017 (m2)
1A N:38°58’07″ E:77°26’05″ 294845 132000 102000
1B Next to A 30000 11000
1C N:38°59’40″ E:77°26’44″ 70143 55810
1D N:39°01’07″ E:77°27’40″ 9213 5760
1F N:39°03’21″ E:77°26’09″ 15429 4200
2 N:37°54’45″ E:77°20’55″ 230748 230560 199556
3 N:38°19’02″ E:77°12’37″ 36889 80904 80904
4 N:38°21’45″ E:77°13’29″ 49038 86712 86712
5 N:38°24’47″ E:77°08’54″ 85280 57964 33348
6 N:38°21’23″ E:77°15’51″ 380240 67242 67242
7 N:38°56’14″ E:76°03’20″ 30000 10238
8 N:38°56’14″ E:76°10’14″ 5600 3882
9 N:39°28’18″ E:75°41’55″ 139918 91920
10 N:39°23’26″ E:76°01’23″ 64449 22800
11 N:39°21’34″ E:75°51’51″ 64288 87915 78315
12 N:39°21’29″ E:76°03’04″ 120700 306000 300000
13 N:39°13’15″ E:76°46’06″ 8649 5856
14 N:39°25’47″ E:76°03’19″ 18975 16456
15 N:39°22’03″ E:76°00’37″ 3600 2700
16A N:38°21’45″ E:77°07’16″ 27750 13002 13002
16B N:38°21’48″ E:77°07’08″ 56700 26280 26280
16C N:38°21’55″ E:77°07’10″ 47488 17644
16D N:38°21’43″ E:77°07’20″ 9450 3400 3400
17 N:38°54’43″ E:77°38’58″ 3400 4368
18 N:38°21’06″ E:77°18’21″ 48617 53984 53984
19 N:39°47’03″ E:78°33’41″ 20050 22390 13590
Total 1,871,459 1,420,987 1,058,333
Found in OSM:
Discussion
Comment from pangoSE on 23 February 2019 at 01:20
I have drawn a couple of the largest now on the map. See https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/GmT
The architecture of them reminds me of Foucaults analysis of prisons. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discipline_and_Punish
Comment from pangoSE on 23 February 2019 at 15:07
For those who want to help, in some of the camps there are buildings which is not drawn yet. Find the camps via the overpass query above.
Comment from woodpeck on 24 February 2019 at 23:20
I salute your enthusiasm but:
Comment from pangoSE on 25 February 2019 at 21:13
Hi @woodpeck Thanks for the heads up. I removed that one. In a year or two when the satellites have passed again/we get new imagery we can revisit these. The best would of course be an on ground survey but that seems kinda unlikely/hard/dangerous for an outsider to perform. If anyone reading this is living in Xinjiang and is willing to take the risk, be my guest to verify these. I would really like to have an independent UN commission or something working with this to document the extent of the problem on ground and verify that it really is slave work camps.