The response from China's ambassador to the UK isn't quite a convincing explanation to me. Not even his verbal, but also non-verbal communication. There is no reasonable explanation for the footage being shown.
Yeah, he seems about as trustworthy as Mike Pompeo. The government in China, like governments elsewhere, might well be doing terrible things to millions of people. If that were true, it would be good to have actual evidence of that, rather than the hot garbage described in TFA or, frankly, an anonymously posted video that appears to show a few hundred men shackled at a train station. I can't even tell whether those men are Asian, let alone Uighur as Guardian confidently assures us. It isn't clear, for instance, why the texts on the uniforms of both the "prisoners" and the "guards" use Latin rather than Chinese characters.
Maybe the Xinjiang United Front's "26 signs of illegal religious activity" are more convincing? Even if you can't read Chinese, they have some nice meme images about evil Muslims: http://xjtzb.gov.cn/2017-06/19/c_1121167392.htm
The response from China's ambassador to the UK isn't quite a convincing explanation to me. Not even his verbal, but also non-verbal communication. There is no reasonable explanation for the footage being shown.