Who Are The Uighurs And Why Should We Care About Them?

The strategic dimensions are complex -- and important.

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  • What is happening with the Uighurs in China?
    At least 1 million Uighurs have been interned since 2017 in more than 85 identified camps within Xinjiang-- an autonomous region in Northwest China, according to Western reports. Most of the ...
    02/20/2021 - 6:25 am | View Link
  • Will other nations join US in accusing China of ‘genocide’ against Uighurs?
    Uighurs: how China began a ‘cultural genocide’ as the West looked on What was in the leaked files on China’s detention of Uighur Muslims? ICC rules out investigation into China’s forced ...
    01/19/2021 - 11:00 am | View Link
  • China Uighurs: A model's video gives a rare glimpse inside internment
    Over the past few years, credible estimates suggest, more than one million Uighurs and other minorities have been forced into a network of highly secure camps in Xinjiang that China has insisted ...
    08/3/2020 - 12:59 pm | View Link
  • Xinjiang: US sanctions on Chinese officials over 'abuse' of Muslims
    China is accused of mass detentions, religious persecution and forced sterilisation of Uighurs and others. The sanctions target the US-connected financial interests of regional Communist Party boss ...
    07/8/2020 - 1:00 pm | View Link
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  • Persecution of Uyghurs in China
    In 2008, Michael Clarke, an Australian terrorism scholar, noted that "there has emerged within the Uighur émigré community a tendency to portray the Uighurs as experiencing a form of 'cultural genocide '", citing as an example a 2004 speech by World Uyghur Congress president Erkin Alptekin. [303]
    11/29/2024 - 12:34 pm | View Website
  • Uyghur | History, Language, China, & Muslims | Britannica
    Central Asian arts: Uighurs However, other scholars argue that modern Uyghurs are, in large part, the descendants of one or more nomadic groups that lived in Xinjiang much earlier than the Uyghur khanate.
    11/29/2024 - 12:13 pm | View Website
  • China: Unrelenting Crimes Against Humanity Targeting Uyghurs
    Chinese President Xi Jinping’s pronouncement that China intends to maintain its counterterrorism policies in the northwestern Xinjiang region indicates continuing crimes against humanity there.
    11/29/2024 - 8:10 am | View Website
  • Uyghurs
    The Uighurs are the people whom old Russian travelers called "Sart" (a name they used for sedentary, Turkish-speaking Central Asians in general), while Western travelers called them Turki, in recognition of their language. The Chinese used to call them "Ch'an-t'ou" ('Turbaned Heads') but this term has been dropped, being considered derogatory ...
    11/29/2024 - 7:27 am | View Website
  • Who The Uyghurs Are And Why China Is Targeting Them : NPR
    MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: The Uyghurs are a Muslim minority in China, living in Xinjiang province at a crossroads of culture and empire. Today it's estimated that more than 1 million Uyghur people ...
    11/28/2024 - 10:08 pm | View Website
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