Legitimizing Repression: China’s “War on Terror” Under Xi Jinping and State Policy in East Turkestan

According to data assembled by the Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) from Chinese

and overseas media, a range of 656 to 715 individuals lost their lives in the violence that

engulfed Uyghurs and other ethnicities between 2013-14. The number of fatalities in

2014 is approximately double that of 2013.