All Reading
This section contains a curated list of useful articles, investigations, books and other reading materials. The list is updated on a weekly basis and suggestions for additions are welcome.
Starting Points:
China: Minority Exclusion, Marginalization and Rising Tensions
This report demonstrates how China’s overarching agenda for ‘unity’, under the guise of ‘development’ and ‘security’, is having a particularly grave impact on its minority communities, including the Uyghurs in Xinjiang.
Criminalizing Ethnicity: Political Repression in Xinjiang
This summary of a new report by HRIC and Human Rights Watch examines how the Chinese government has used international campaigns against terrorism as a pretext to crack down on any expression by members of the Muslim minority of Xinjiang to assert their ethnic character or promote an independent state.