Within 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 a...

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1. Verfasser:	Roberts, Sean R. (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Princeton ; Oxford Princeton University Press [2020]
Schriftenreihe:	Princeton studies in Muslim politics
Schlagworte:	Ethnozid Muslim Politische Verfolgung Islam Uiguren Minderheit Sinkiang China Volksrepublik China / Uiguren / Ethnische Bevölkerungsgruppe/Volksgruppe / Minderheit / Muslime / Ethnische Diskriminierung / Ethnischer Konflikt / Politische Verfolgung / Internierung / Internierungslager / Terrorismusbekämpfung People's Republic of China / Uyguren / Ethnic/national communities / Minority groups / Muslims / Ethnic discrimination / Ethnic conflicts / Political persecution / Internment / Internment camps / Antiterrorism Verhältnis Bevölkerungsgruppen - Staat / Kolonialismus / Genozid / Kulturelle Identität Societal groups - state relations / Colonialism / Genocide / Cultural identity
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Zusammenfassung:	Within 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
Beschreibung:	Literaturangaben Seite 266-300 Register Seite 301-308
Beschreibung:	xviii, 308 Seiten Illustrationen, 1 Karte
ISBN:	0691202184 9780691202181