History professor at Georgetown University ames Millward comments on the situation in Xinjiang. "What has been going for over seven years now is a denial of that colonial aspect of control in Xinjiang, and then trying to explain it away and trying to explain the desire of local people for autonomy as separatism, as extremism, as something unnatural." AFP has published a series of recent reports from China's Xinjiang region. SEE EDITS 33QW6WA, 33R37FX, 33QL4J4 SOUNDBITES