Xinjiang conflict

Though the conflict is traced to 1931, factors such as the massive state-sponsored migration of Han Chinese from the 1950s to the 1970s, government policies promoting Chinese cultural unity and punishing certain expressions of Uyghur identity, and harsh responses to separatism have contributed to tension between Uyghurs, and state police and Han Chinese. This has taken the form of both frequent terrorist attacks and wider public unrest such as the Baren Township riot , 1997 Ürümqi bus bombings , protests in Ghuljia , June 2009 Shaoguan Incident , the resulting July 2009 Ürümqi riots , 2011 Hotan attack , April 2014 Ürümqi attack , May 2014 Ürümqi attack , and 2014 Kunming attack . Other Uyghur organizations such as the World Uyghur Congress denounce totalitarianism, religious intolerance, and terrorism as an instrument of policy. In recent years, government policy has been marked by mass surveillance and the incarceration without trial of over one million Uyghurs and other Muslim minority ethnic groups in "re-education camps" . Numerous reports have stated that many of these minorities have been used in prison labour in a seeming return to the "re-education through labour" program, supposedly abolished in 2013. As of May 2020, the last terrorist attack was in 2014, before the concentration camps were established. Shohret Hoshur ; Joshua Lipes (2 November 2012). China's long-running Uighur insurgency has flared up dramatically of late, with more than 900 recorded deaths in the past seven years. China's government says it faces a serious threat from Islamist militants and separatists in energy-rich Xinjiang, on the border of central Asia, where hundreds have died in violence in recent years. The New York Times . Ismail, Mohammed Sa'id; Ismail, Mohammed Aziz (1960) [Hejira 1380], Muslims in the Soviet Union and China (privately printed pamphlet), vol. 1, translated by U.S. The New York Times . Further independent reports: John, Sudworth (24 October 2018). There are <ref group=note> tags on this page, but the references will not show without a template (see the help page ).

Geopolitical conflict in Central Asia This article is about recent unrest and fighting in Xinjiang. (2013–2017) The Xinjiang conflict ( Chinese : 新疆冲突 ), also known as the East Turkistan conflict , Uyghur–Chinese conflict or Sino-East Turkistan conflict (as argued by the East Turkistan Government-in-Exile ), is an ongoing ethnic geopolitical conflict in what is now China 's far- northwest autonomous region of Xinjiang , also known as East Turkistan. It is centred around the Uyghurs , a Turkic ethnic group who constitute a plurality (or 'relative majority' ) of the region's population. Since the incorporation of the region into the People's Republic of China, factors such as the mass state-sponsored migration of Han Chinese from the 1950s to the 1970s, government policies promoting Chinese cultural unity and punishing certain expressions of Uyghur identity, and harsh responses to separatism have contributed to tension between the Uyghurs, and state police and Han Chinese. This has taken the form of both terrorist attacks and wider public unrest such as the Baren Township conflict , 1997 Ürümqi bus bombings , protests in Ghuljia , June 2009 Shaoguan Incident and the resulting July 2009 Ürümqi riots , 2011 Hotan attack , April 2014 Ürümqi attack , May 2014 Ürümqi attack , 2014 Kunming attack as well as the 2015 Aksu colliery attack . Uyghur organizations such as the World Uyghur Congress denounce totalitarianism , religious intolerance , and terrorism as an instrument of policy. In 2014, the Chinese government launched the Strike Hard Campaign Against Violent Terrorism in Xinjiang. In recent years, the Chinese Communist Party under Xi Jinping Administration 's policy has been marked by much harsher policies, including mass surveillance and the incarceration without trial of over one million Uyghurs and other Muslim minority ethnic groups in internment camps . Numerous reports have stated that many of these minorities have been used for prison labour . International observers have labelled the forced Sinicization campaign to be an instance of crimes against humanity , cultural genocide , as well as physical genocide . The Chinese government has denied charges of genocide and other human rights abuses , which characterises the centres as deradicalisation and integration programs and were the subject of dispute at the 44th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC); 39 countries condemned China's treatment of the Uyghurs in Xinjiang in June 2020. Similarly, in July, a group of 45 nations issued a competing letter to the UNHRC, defending China's treatment of both Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities in Xinjiang. Various groups and media organizations worldwide have disputed denials that human rights violations have occurred. Shohret Hoshur ; Joshua Lipes (2 November 2012). China's long-running Uighur insurgency has flared up dramatically of late, with more than 900 recorded deaths in the past seven years. China's government says it faces a serious threat from Islamist militants and separatists in energy-rich Xinjiang, on the border of central Asia, where hundreds have died in violence in recent years. The New York Times . (1998) [First edition published 1926 and edited by H. The New Fowler's Modern English Usage (Revised 3rd ed.). Ismail, Mohammed Sa'id; Ismail, Mohammed Aziz (1960) [Hejira 1380], Muslims in the Soviet Union and China (privately printed pamphlet), vol. 1, translated by U.S. World Uyghur Congress . 16 November 2017 . The New York Times . The Economist . 5 March 2020 . " "Like we were enemies in a war" " . ""'Cultural genocide': China separating thousands of Muslim children from parents for 'thought education'" – The Independent, 5 July 2019" . ""'Cultural genocide' for repressed minority of Uighurs" – The Times 17 December 2019" . " "China's Oppression of the Uighurs 'The Equivalent of Cultural Genocide'" – 28 November 2019" . " "Fear and oppression in Xinjiang: China's war on Uighur culture" – Financial Times 12 September 2019" . The Uyghur Minority in China: A Case Study of Cultural Genocide, Minority Rights and the Insufficiency of the International Legal Framework in Preventing State-Imposed Extinction" . " "China's crime against Uyghurs is a form of genocide" - Summer 2019" . Fourth World Journal . 18 (1): 76– 88. The New York Times . "Statement by Ambassador Christoph Heusgen on behalf of 39 Countries in the Third Committee General Debate, October 6, 2020" . Says China's Repression of Uighurs is 'Genocide' " . The New York Times . " 'Credible case' of China genocide against Uighurs" . 8 February 2021. Here's some of the most chilling evidence" . "The Uighur 'influencers' working for Beijing's propaganda machine" . 8 November 2022. These Canadian companies are importing goods from Chinese factories accused of serious human rights abuses" . 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Geopolitical conflict in China This article is about recent unrest and fighting in Xinjiang. (2013–2017) The Xinjiang conflict ( Chinese : 新疆冲突 ; pinyin : xīnjiāng chōngtú ), also known as the East Turkistan conflict , Uyghur–Chinese conflict or Sino-East Turkistan conflict (as argued by the East Turkistan Government-in-Exile ), is an ethnic geopolitical conflict in what is now China 's far- northwest autonomous region of Xinjiang , also known as East Turkistan. It is centred around the Uyghurs , a Turkic ethnic group who constitute a plurality (or 'relative majority' ) of the region's population. Since the incorporation of the region into the People's Republic of China, factors such as the mass state-sponsored migration of Han Chinese from the 1950s to the 1970s, government policies promoting Chinese cultural unity and punishing certain expressions of Uyghur identity, and harsh responses to separatism have contributed to tension between the Uyghurs, and state police and Han Chinese. This has taken the form of both terrorist attacks and wider public unrest such as the Baren Township conflict , 1997 Ürümqi bus bombings , protests in Ghuljia , June 2009 Shaoguan Incident and the resulting July 2009 Ürümqi riots , 2011 Hotan attack , April 2014 Ürümqi attack , May 2014 Ürümqi attack , 2014 Kunming attack as well as the 2015 Aksu colliery attack . Uyghur organizations such as the World Uyghur Congress denounce totalitarianism , religious intolerance , and terrorism as an instrument of policy. In 2014, the Chinese government launched the Strike Hard Campaign Against Violent Terrorism in Xinjiang. In recent years, the Chinese Communist Party under Xi Jinping Administration 's policy has been marked by much harsher policies, including mass surveillance and the incarceration without trial of over one million Uyghurs and other Muslim minority ethnic groups in internment camps . Numerous reports have stated that many of these minorities have been used for prison labour . International observers have labelled the forced Sinicization campaign to be an instance of crimes against humanity , cultural genocide , as well as physical genocide . The Chinese government has refuted charges of genocide and other human rights abuses, characterising the centres as deradicalisation and integration programs and were the subject of dispute at the 44th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC); 39 countries condemned China's treatment of the Uyghurs in Xinjiang in June 2020. Similarly, in July, a group of 45 nations, including many Middle Eastern nations, issued a competing letter to the UNHRC, defending China's treatment of both Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities in Xinjiang. Various groups and media organizations worldwide have disputed denials that human rights violations have occurred. Shohret Hoshur ; Joshua Lipes (2 November 2012). China's long-running Uighur insurgency has flared up dramatically of late, with more than 900 recorded deaths in the past seven years. China's government says it faces a serious threat from Islamist militants and separatists in energy-rich Xinjiang, on the border of central Asia, where hundreds have died in violence in recent years. The New York Times . (1998) [First edition published 1926 and edited by H. The New Fowler's Modern English Usage (Revised 3rd ed.). Ismail, Mohammed Sa'id; Ismail, Mohammed Aziz (1960) [Hejira 1380], Muslims in the Soviet Union and China (privately printed pamphlet), vol. 1, translated by U.S. World Uyghur Congress . 16 November 2017 . The New York Times . The Economist . 5 March 2020 . " "Like we were enemies in a war" " . ""'Cultural genocide': China separating thousands of Muslim children from parents for 'thought education'"" . ""'Cultural genocide' for repressed minority of Uighurs" – The Times 17 December 2019" . " "China's Oppression of the Uighurs 'The Equivalent of Cultural Genocide'" – 28 November 2019" . " "Fear and oppression in Xinjiang: China's war on Uighur culture" – Financial Times 12 September 2019" . The Uyghur Minority in China: A Case Study of Cultural Genocide, Minority Rights and the Insufficiency of the International Legal Framework in Preventing State-Imposed Extinction" . The New York Times . "Statement by Ambassador Christoph Heusgen on behalf of 39 Countries in the Third Committee General Debate, October 6, 2020" . Says China's Repression of Uighurs is 'Genocide' " . The New York Times . " 'Credible case' of China genocide against Uighurs" . 8 February 2021. Here's some of the most chilling evidence" . "The Uighur 'influencers' working for Beijing's propaganda machine" . 8 November 2022. These Canadian companies are importing goods from Chinese factories accused of serious human rights abuses" . There are <ref group=lower-alpha> tags or templates on this page, but the references will not show without a template or template (see the help page ).