Strike Hard Campaign Against Violent Terrorism

Strike Hard Campaign Against Violent Terrorism
Strike Hard Campaign Against Violent Terrorism
Traditional Chinese	嚴厲打擊暴力恐怖活動專項行動
Simplified Chinese	严厉打击暴力恐怖活动专项行动
Literal meaning	Special action to crack down on violent terrorist activities
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	yánlì dǎjí bàolì kǒngbù huódòng zhuānxiàng xíngdòng

Strike Hard Against Violent Terrorism
Strike Hard Against Violent Terrorism
Native name	严厉打击暴力恐怖活动专项行动
Location	Xinjiang Province, China
Date	Beginning 2014 ; 23rd May 2014 – Present
Target	Ethnic Uyghurs, "separatists", violent extremists
Attack type	Political repression, mass arrests, incarcerations and extrajudicial detention/surveillance,
Victims	14,000 (Initial arrests) ; 1 million + (Forced detention)
Perpetrators	Chinese Communist Party, Ministry of Public Security
Motive	Stability maintenance, maintenance of Chinese Communist Party control over Xinjiang region, suppression of ethnic minority independence

In May 2014, the Government of the People's Republic of China (PRC) launched the "Strike Hard Campaign against Violent Terrorism" (Chinese: 严厉打击暴力恐怖活动专项行动) in the far west province of Xinjiang. It is an aspect of the Xinjiang conflict, the ongoing struggle by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the Chinese government to manage the ethnically diverse and tumultuous province.^[1] According to critics, the CCP and the Chinese government have used the global "war on terrorism" of the 2000s to frame separatist and ethnic unrest as acts of Islamist terrorism to legitimize its counter-insurgency policies in Xinjiang.^[2] Chinese officials have maintained that the campaign is essential for national security purposes.

Different "Strike Hard" campaigns had been mounted by regional authorities in the 1990s.^[3]

^ Bovingdon, Gardner (2004). Alagappa, Muthiah (ed.). Autonomy in Xinjiang: Han Nationalist Imperatives and Uyghur Discontent (PDF). Policy Studies. East-West Center Washington. p. 1. hdl:10125/349. ISBN 1-932728-21-X. ISSN 1547-1330. Retrieved 16 Apr 2021.
^ Trédaniel, Marie; Lee, Pak K. (2017-09-18). "Explaining the Chinese framing of the "terrorist" violence in Xinjiang: insights from securitization theory" (PDF). Nationalities Papers. 46 (1): 177–195. doi:10.1080/00905992.2017.1351427. ISSN 0090-5992. S2CID 157729459. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2019-04-27. Retrieved 2019-08-18.
^ Chestnut Greitens, Sheena; Lee, Myunghee; Yazici, Emir (2020). "Counterterrorism and preventive repression: China's changing strategy in Xinjiang" (PDF). International Security. pp. 9–47.

[1] Bovingdon, Gardner (2004). Alagappa, Muthiah (ed.). Autonomy in Xinjiang: Han Nationalist Imperatives and Uyghur Discontent (PDF). Policy Studies. East-West Center Washington. p. 1. hdl:10125/349. ISBN 1-932728-21-X. ISSN 1547-1330. Retrieved 16 Apr 2021.

[2] Trédaniel, Marie; Lee, Pak K. (2017-09-18). "Explaining the Chinese framing of the "terrorist" violence in Xinjiang: insights from securitization theory" (PDF). Nationalities Papers. 46 (1): 177–195. doi:10.1080/00905992.2017.1351427. ISSN 0090-5992. S2CID 157729459. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2019-04-27. Retrieved 2019-08-18.

[3] Chestnut Greitens, Sheena; Lee, Myunghee; Yazici, Emir (2020). "Counterterrorism and preventive repression: China's changing strategy in Xinjiang" (PDF). International Security. pp. 9–47.

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