China’s ‘War on Terror’ in Xinjiang: human Security and the Causes of Violent Uighur Separatism

This paper aims to provide answers to three important questions stemming from this development:

1. What has been the extent of violent Uighur opposition to Chinese rule?

2. Can this opposition be defined as constituting terrorism and is there evidence of

connections between Uighur organisations and such groups as Al Qaeda and the

IMU?

3. Is the case of Xinjiang and the Uighur consistent with the human security theory

of terrorism?