war 2 so of course these. revelations about what has been happening in xinjiang since 2017 that is when the 1st reports about of about this mass repression campaign this very. unprecedented. repression against a whole group ethnic group came out this has is of course a new dimension to china's human rights record and so when this report from human rights watch talks about china's threats to critics abroad though they talking about. members of the weaker community have reported several times that they have been threatened by. agents brought that their family members in china have been have disappeared and that their lives have been used to put pressure on them their fate has been used to put pressure on them we also see pressure on