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Fast forward 17 years: On Friday, a panel of U.N. human rights experts said Uighurs in Xinjiang were being treated as “enemies of the state” and announced that it had received credible reports about the “arbitrary and mass detention of almost 1 million Uighurs” in “counter-extremism centers.”
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Other economic factors come into play, too: Xinjiang is home to the country’s largest reserves of coal and natural gas.
Fighting terrorism, though, has become a useful cover for authoritarian governments around the world.
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