%T Cultural erasure: tracing the destruction of Uyghur and Islamic spaces in Xinjiang
%A Nathan Ruser
%A James Leibold
%A Kelsey Munro
%A et al.
%I International Cyber Policy Centre
%D 2020

%K Muslim ethnic identity, %K Ethnic conflict, %K Genocide, %K Totalitarian systems, %K Ethnic relations, %K Human rights



%U https://apo.org.au/node/308483

%X The Chinese state has long sought to ‘transform’ and ‘civilise’ Xinjiang, but Xi Jinping and his lieutenants bring a new sense of urgency to this colonialist project. Under the guise of combating perceived ‘religious extremism’ and promoting ‘inter-ethnic mingling’, Chinese officials are slowly but systematically stripping away those elements of Uyghur culture they deem to be ‘foreign’, ‘backward’, ‘abnormal’ or simply out of sync with Han-centric norms.
%9 Policy report