War on the Uyghurs: China's Campaign Against Xinjiang's Muslims

The Chinese government has used the US-led Global War on Terror as cover for its increasingly brutal suppression of the Uyghur people, detaining over 1 million in re-education camps and engaging in cultural genocide. This book provides a lucid and far-reaching analysis of the human tragedy and allows the voices of those caught up in it to be heard for the first time.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 336 pages
Publication date: 28 September 2021
Publisher: Manchester University Press

The first account of one of the world's most pressing humanitarian catastrophes is presented in this eye-opening book, which exposes how China has exploited the US-led Global War on Terror as a cover for its escalating brutal suppression of the Uyghur people. The book argues that China's actions have emboldened other states around the globe to persecute ethnic minorities and severely repress domestic opposition in the name of combating terrorism.

Within weeks of the September 11 attacks on New York and Washington, the Chinese government declared that it faced a severe terrorist threat from its predominantly Muslim Uyghur ethnic minority. Nearly two decades later, of the 11 million Uyghurs living in China today, more than 1 million have been detained in so-called re-education camps, victims of what has become the largest program of mass incarceration and surveillance in the world.

Drawing on extensive interviews with Uyghurs in Xinjiang, as well as refugee communities and exiles, Sean Roberts tells a story that goes beyond state policies and delves into Uyghur responses to these devastating government programs. The War on the Uyghurs provides a lucid and far-reaching analysis of China's cultural genocide, allowing the voices of those caught up in the human tragedy to be heard for the first time.

Weight: 372g
Dimension: 130 x 198 x 28 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781526160607