Telling Tall Tales: "Uyghur Genocide" as a Political Stratagem

By Barry Sautman

Many claims of genocide do not present a prima facie case of the intent to destroy a group, let alone show guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. They are a stratagem to enhance the claimant's position in an inter-state or intra-state conflict. Claims about China's Xinjiang are not based on the mass killings associated with genocide, but on birth limits for minorities in 2017-2021 that included practices previously applied to China's Han majority for decades, plus brief family separations of a few minority children. These assertions impel Western sanctions and incite anti-Chinese sentiment but are empirically unsupported and degrade the concept of genocide.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004756094
• ISBN13: 9789004756090
• Release Date: May 2026
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 454 Pages
• Weight: 1.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.3"