The War on the Uyghurs (eBook)

China's Internal Campaign against a Muslim Minority

Sean R. Roberts (Autor)

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2020
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
9780691202211 (ISBN)

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How China is using the US-led war on terror to erase the cultural identity of its Muslim minority in the Xinjiang regionWithin weeks of the September 11 attacks on New York and Washington, the Chinese government warned that it faced a serious terrorist threat from its Uyghur ethnic minority, who are largely Muslim. In this explosive book, Sean Roberts reveals how China has been using the US-led global war on terror as international cover for its increasingly brutal suppression of the Uyghurs, and how the war's targeting of an undefined enemy has emboldened states around the globe to persecute ethnic minorities and severely repress domestic opposition in the name of combatting terrorism.Of the eleven million Uyghurs living in China today, more than one million are now being held in so-called reeducation camps, victims of what has become the largest program of mass detention and surveillance in the world. Roberts describes how the Chinese government successfully implicated the Uyghurs in the global terror war-despite a complete lack of evidence-and branded them as a dangerous terrorist threat with links to al-Qaeda. He argues that the reframing of Uyghur domestic dissent as international terrorism provided justification and inspiration for a systematic campaign to erase Uyghur identity, and that a nominal Uyghur militant threat only emerged after more than a decade of Chinese suppression in the name of counterterrorism-which has served to justify further state repression.A gripping and moving account of the humanitarian catastrophe that China does not want you to know about, The War on the Uyghurs draws on Roberts's own in-depth interviews with the Uyghurs, enabling their voices to be heard.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.9.2020
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Schlagworte: abuse of power • Afghanistan • Aftermath of World War II • Al-Qaeda • Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb • Anti-Imperialism • assassination • Beijing • Beslan school siege • Bishkek • Caucasus mountains • Central Asia • Chechens • chechnya • China • China proper • China's Forgotten People • China–United States relations • Chinese communism • Chinese Communist Party • Chinese Culture • Chinese internment camps • classified information • collective punishment • Colonialism • Colonization • Combatant • Communist oppression • Communist Party of China • Communist Party of the Soviet Union • concentration camps • Coordinator for Counterterrorism • Counter-Insurgency • Counter-Terrorism • Crimes Against Humanity • cultural assimilation • Cultural genocide • death threat • Decolonization • Definitions of terrorism • detentions • diplomatic mission • Dissident • Dissolution of the Soviet Union • Dungan Revolt (1862–77) • East Turkestan • enemy combatant • ethnic cleansing • ethnic group • Extradition • extrajudicial killing • Extremism • foreign policy • Foreign policy of the United States • Gardner Bovingdon • Genocide • global catastrophic risk • Global War on Terror • Guantanamo Bay detention camp • GULAG • hate crime • historical trauma • house arrest • humanitarian crisis • Human Rights • Ideology • Ilham Tohti • imperialism • Imprisonment • impunity • Indigenous peoples • indoctrination • Institution • Insurgency • International Community • international sanctions • internment • Interpol • intimidation • Islam • Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan • Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant • Islamism • Islamophobia • Jihadism • Jisr al-Shughur • July 2009 Ürümqi riots • Kashgar • kazakhs • Kazakhstan • Korla • Kunming • Kuomintang • Kyrgyz Language • Kyrgyzstan • lawyer • maoism • Martial Law • Mass Incarceration • Mass murder • Mass shooting • Mass surveillance • Michael Clarke • militant • Military Strategy • Minorities • modern warfare • Mosque • Mujahideen • Muslim world • Nationality • national security • Nazi concentration camps • New Economic Policy • Nick Holdstock • Nikita Khrushchev • On China • Oppression • oppression of Muslims • Orwellian • Osama bin Laden • Pakistan • pan-Islamism • people's war • Persecution • police station • Political Campaign • Political criticism • Political statement • Political violence • Prisoner of War • Proxy war • Publication • racial profiling • Refugee • Religion • Religiosity • Reprogramming • resentment • Rural Area • Salafi movement • Saudi Arabia • security forces • security studies • Self-determination • separatism • Settler Colonialism • Sino-Soviet split • Smuggling • Sovereignty • Spyware • Strangers in Their Own Land • Struggle (TV series) • Succession of states • suicide attack • Suppression of dissent • Surveillance • Taliban • Tarim Basin • Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan • terrorism • Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism in China • The New York Times • The Other Hand • Threat (computer) • Three Evils • Torture • Totalitarianism • Transliteration • Turkistan (city) • Turkistan Islamic Party • United Arab Emirates • United Kingdom withdrawal from the European Union • United States invasion of Afghanistan • United States State Department list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations • Unlawful combatant • Uyghur Khaganate • Uyghur language • Uyghur nationalism • Uyghurs • Waqf • war • War Crime • warfare • War in Afghanistan (2001–14) • War in Afghanistan (2015–present) • War on Terror • waziristan • World Trade Center Attacks • World Uyghur Congress • World War • Writing • Xi Jinping • Xinhai Revolution • Xinjiang • Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region • XUAR
• ISBN-13: 9780691202211 / 9780691202211