After five years of intense crackdown, the Xinjiang region in Western China has been entirely transformed. The region that previously hosted a unique and expressed culture has now been silenced and erased. An assault on the Uyghur people, and other Turkic nationalities in the region, has seen upwards of a million people detained or imprisoned, sacred sites destroyed and family planning stopping the population in its tracks. This briefing will look at the changes that this crackdown has brought on the region, how the crackdown itself has changed and what might come next.

Bio: Nathan Ruser is an ANU alumni and a human rights researcher focusing on the use of satellite imagery to examine abuses in areas that cannot be reached by other means. He has produced several reports with the Australian Strategic Policy Institute on the situation in Xinjiang.

This event is being held in person at the Al Falasi Lecture Theatre at CAIS, and online via Zoom registration.

To attend in person, please RSVP to majlis.cais@anu.edu.au.