The rebranding of Xinjiang

January 7, 2024 | CBS News | By Elizabeth Palmer

Babur Ilchi, of the Uyghur Human Rights Project in Washington, said the Chinese Communist Party is threatened by the Uyghur people because “we’re not Han Chinese, we’re separate from the majority of China. The Chinese government perceived us as a potential threat to their complete supremacy over China.”

When suggested that the Chinese government’s crackdown on the Uyghurs was in response to terrorist attacks, Uyghur Human Rights Project‘s Babur Ilchi replied, “Well, I think that if your response to acts of violence, or perceived acts of terrorism, [is] to round up an entire ethnic group into mass concentration camps, then you have gone beyond your ability to defend yourself.”

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