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This book reveals how China has used the US-led 'Global War on Terror' as cover for its increasingly brutal suppression of the Uyghur people. China's actions, it argues, have emboldened states around the globe to persecute ethnic minorities and severely repress domestic opposition in the name of combating terrorism. Within weeks of the 9/11 attacks on New York and Washington, the Chinese government announced that it faced a serious terrorist threat from its largely Muslim Uyghur ethnic minority. Nearly two decades later, of the eleven million Uyghurs living in China today, more than one 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 as well as Uyghur language sources, the author tells a story that is not just about state politics, but about Uyghur responses to these devastating government programs.

Ethnic relations. --- Muslims --- Muslims. --- Uighur (Turkic people) --- Social conditions --- China --- China. --- UIGHUR (TURKIC PEOPLE)--CHINA --- MUSLIMS--CHINA --- CHINA--ETHNIC RELATIONS

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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.

Muslims --- China --- Ethnic relations. --- Beijing. --- China's Forgotten People. --- Chinese Communism. --- Chinese Communist Party. --- Chinese internment camps. --- Gardner Bovingdon. --- Islam. --- Maoism. --- Michael Clarke. --- Nick Holdstock. --- Strangers in Their Own Land. --- Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism in China. --- World Trade Center attacks. --- XUAR. --- Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. --- communist oppression. --- concentration camps. --- crimes against humanity. --- detentions. --- genocide. --- global war on terror. --- human rights. --- humanitarian crisis. --- minorities. --- oppression of Muslims. --- reprogramming. --- totalitarianism.