A Genocide in Our Time?: China’s Internal Campaign Against a Muslim Minority

More than one million members of China’s Uyghur ethnic minority, who are largely Muslim, are now being held in so-called reeducation camps, victims of what has become the largest program of mass detention and surveillance in the world.

In his explosive, gripping, and deeply moving new book, Professor Sean Roberts, Director of International Development Studies at the Elliott School of International Affairs of The George Washington University, describes how the Chinese government successfully implicated the Uyghurs in the US-led global terror war―despite a complete lack of evidence―and branded them as a dangerous terrorist threat with links to al-Qaeda. Roberts argues that the reframing of Uyghur domestic dissent as international terrorism provided justification and inspiration for a systematic campaign to erase Uyghur identity—one of the most sweeping and consequential mass violations of human rights in our time.

Sean R. Roberts is an associate professor of the practice of international affairs and director of the International Development Studies Program at George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs. He lives in Washington, DC. Twitter @robertsreport

Mustafa Tuna is Associate Professor of Russian and Central Eurasian History and Culture in the Departments of Slavic and Eurasian Studies & History at Duke University and is affiliated with the Duke Islamic Studies Center and the Duke Middle East Studies Center.

Moderator: Nancy MacLean is the William H. Chafe Distinguished Professor of History and Public Policy and an award-winning scholar of the twentieth-century U.S., and author of Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America.

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