By Ilham Tohti, published: April 6, 2014 On January 15, 2014, Chinese authorities arrested Ilham Tohti, a Uyghur economics professor at the prestigious Minzu University in Beijing. Authorities formally charged him with separatism on February 25, and have so far denied him access to his attorney. For years, Tohti has discussed and commented on not only…
By Wang Lixiong, published March 3, 2014 (On the evening of March 1, 2014, several knife-wielding men and at least one woman killed 33 and injured more than 140 in the train station in the southwestern city of Kunming. The Chinese authorities blame Uyghur separatists for the terrorist attack. — Editor) People asked how…
Christian Tyler, author of ‘Wild West China: The Taming of Xinjiang (East Turkistan)’ disusses the recent history of Xinjiang (East Turkistan) (East Turkistan) and the changing relations between Uyghurs and Han Chinese (August 2008).
Professor James Millward, Georgetown University discusses Uyghur and Han relations in Xinjiang (East Turkistan) since the foundation of the People’s Republic of China (September 2008)
A talk by Prof. Yitzhak Shichor, University of Haifa on contemporary Xinjiang (East Turkistan) security issues (January 2009)
