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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), [12] is an ethnic geopolitical conflict in what is now China's far-northwest autonomous region of Xinjiang, also known as East Turkistan.
Uyghur nationalism (Uyghur: ئۇيغۇر مىللەتچىلىكى) [a] is a nationalist movement which asserts that the Uyghur people, an ethnic minority in China, are a distinct nation. Uyghur nationalism promotes the cultural unity of the Uyghur people, either as an independent group or as a regional group within a larger Chinese nation .
[27] China has defended the strike-hard campaign as lawful, asserting that the country is a victim of terrorism, and that Uyghur men are motivated by global jihadi ideology rather than driven by grievances at home. The Chinese government denies the internment camps are for the purposes of re-education. [27]
In the 1980s and 1990s, numerous Uyghur organisations representing the Uyghur movement in exile formed around the world but were disorganised and disunited. [ 32 ] [ 33 ] Some Uyghur organizations use more moderate methods of human rights advocacy to influence the Chinese government within the international community. [ 32 ]
The United States has banned imports from another tranche of Chinese companies over alleged human-rights abuses involving the Uyghurs, targeting 37 textile, mining and solar companies, the ...
Activists in China who provided information about it to international organizations have been arrested and sentenced for revealing "state secrets". [ 1 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 10 ] [ 11 ] In 2016, the World Uyghur Congress called the incident was "the deadliest episode [in the region] since the unrest in Urumqi in July 2009".
Targeting Uyghur forced labor is critical to promote and protect those inherent, inalienable rights that all human beings possess, including Uyghurs. Olivia Enos is a senior fellow at Hudson ...
The One Voice one Step Movement was initiated by Campaign for Uyghurs [10] on March 15, 2018. It was a global movement where hundreds of Uyghurs and supporters of the Uyghur cause demonstrated on 15 March 2018 in opposition to China's brutality and persecution of Uyghurs and their extrajudicial detention inside concentration camps.