CSR Blog: The Xinjiang Conflict: Analysis of the ethnic clash through an insurgency and counterinsurgency lens

By Michael Akopian For over seventy years, the Uyghur population in China’s northwest Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) has been on the receiving end of various cultural eradication, assimilation, and security measures at the hands of the Chinese Communist Party. Finally reaching a critical point in the 1990s, Uyghur extremist attacks and general ethnic conflict …