West neglects complexity of anti-terror fight in Xinjiang

Chinese anti-terrorism and human rights scholars have voiced anger and called on the Western media and anti-China forces to recognize the tough and complicated anti-terrorism situation in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, and to squarely face how local people have suffered when the region was frequently hit by bloody attacks.▲ Screenshot from the documentary The War in the Shadows. Photo/CGTN  While many people are shocked to see that certain former senior Xinjiang officials had secretly backed extremism, terrorism and separatism in the region, as a newly broadcast documentary shows, some Western media and anti-China forces have chosen to turn a blind eye to facts, and even labeled the documentary as China's latest move in a "propaganda campaign" to justify what they call "excessive anti-terrorism measures" in the region.  "They've deliberately ignored the facts that the ………………………………