Throughout this time, the Xinjiang "re-education" camps, internment camps that have been operated operated by the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region government and its Chinese Communist Party (CCP) provincial committee, have been used as places to indoctrinate Uyghurs and other Muslims sas part of a "people's war on terror," a policy announced in 2014. The camps have been criticized by many countries and human rights organizations for alleged human rights abuses and mistreatment, with some even alleging genocide, though others have expressed support for the camps.