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David O'Brien

Irish anthropologist and Xinjiang expert; Assistant Professor and Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at Jagiellonian University, co-founder of the Irish Uyghur Cultural Association.

Oct 6, 2026

19:03
You know, given the level of control and monitoring they have, how can they be threatened by such small groups?
19:10
Yeah, I think it's a really important question, and it's a very, very difficult question to answer.
19:14
I mean, if you look at the response to what have been...
19:21
You know, there have been genuine attacks on, um, uh, on, on the government and on civilians that, you know, are, were very shocking towards, uh, Chinese people in the, uh, sort of mid-2000s.
19:37
You know, we saw a number of, um...
19:39
I think we could definitely define them as terrorist attacks because they were targeting civilians and so on.
19:45
Th- this was happening.

11 MINS LATER

30:55
Uh, this seems, again, to codify it, a- as you say, and really, uh, really extend their reach, doesn't it?

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