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Settler Colonialism and the Path toward Cultural Genocide in Xinjiang

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posted on 2023-12-14, 04:45 authored by Michael Clarke
Abstract The Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (xuar) is the site of the largest mass repression of an ethnic and/or religious minority in the world today characterised by extra-judicial detention of Uyghurs in ‘re-education’ centres, pervasive surveillance, and repression of Uyghur ethnic identity. While Beijing frames such draconian measures as necessary ‘counter-terrorism’ measures, the intersection between concern for the ‘welfare’ of subject populations and the desire to eradicate ‘defective’ elements of cultural identity central to the ‘re-education’ system in Xinjiang betray the fundamentally colonial nature of the Chinese Communist Party’s (ccp) endeavours in the region.

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Journal

Global Responsibility to Protect

Volume

13

Pagination

9-19

ISSN

1875-9858

eISSN

1875-984X

Issue

1

Publisher

Brill

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