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Tuesday, April 12, 2005

Chinese repression of Uighur Muslims

A recent Human Rights Watch report covers China's repression of the Uighur Muslims, a Turkish speaking minority of about 8 million people in Xinjiang. The Uighur tranditional homeland has seen the arrival of 1.2 million ethnic chinese settlers in the past decade. Is this the new Tibet?

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