7 August 2008
Uighurs: a threat to the games ?
A discussion about the people of China's huge, remote and restive province of Xinjiang. The Uighurs of Xinjiang are predominantly Muslim and a local separatist movement - the East Turkestan Islamic Movement - is being described by the Chinese Communist Party as a significant terrorist threat to the Beijing Olympic Games.
Earlier this week sixteen police officers were killed in an attack in the Xinjiang province.
Guests
Sajjan M Gohel
Director for International Security,Asia-Pacific Foundation, Independent Security & Intelligence Think-tank, London
Sean R. Roberts
Director of International Development Studies, George Washington University.
Publications
Title: Xinjiang: China's Muslim Borderland
Author: Sean Roberts, S. Frederick Starr (ed)
Publisher: M.E. Sharpe, 2004
Story Researcher and Producer
Sasha Fegan
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