April 2, 2021

The fourth documentary on the anti-terrorism fight in Northwest China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region was released on Friday. It focuses on the region's terrorist activities, "two-faced inside agents" and problematic Uyghur textbooks, as well as how the East Turkistan Islamic Movement (ETIM) slipped terrorist audio and video products into China.

"The War in the Shadows," the 56-minute film produced by CGTN revealing the reasons behind Xinjiang's once raging terrorism from inside the region, received many browses and inspired hot discussions on social media.

The documentary reveals typical cases of "insiders," dubbed the "two-faced inside agents" who had been lurking in government - some even holding key positions - for a long time and were able to exploit the system via secretly collaborating with the "Three evil forces" (terrorism, extremism and separatism), backing them financially and facilitating their activities.

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