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Uyghur-Han Relations since 1949: Professor James Millward
Professor James Millward, Georgetown University discusses Uyghur and Han relations in Xinjiang since the foundation of the People's Republic of China (September 2008).
Part of the Xinjiang Video Project: www.archive.org/details/xinjiang-video-p roject
January 25, 2010
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Uighur/Uyghur in Xinjiang in western China( from BPS)
December 12, 2009
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Lost Nation: Stories from the Uyghur Diaspora
November 25, 2009
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Uyghur Turks genocide by china in Jully 2009 East Turkestan
August 8, 2009
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China Start new Crack Down on Uyghur Innocent people
July 7, 2009
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July 4, 2009
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Don't accept Uyghurs, China tells Canada
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AFP
February 5, 2009 12:02 PM
BEIJING - China urged Canada on Thursday not to take in up to three members of its Uyghur minority held at Guantanamo Bay, saying the issue should be solved according to international law.
The three, whose lawyers have filed applications for refugee status in Canada, are among a group of 17 Uyghurs captured in the wake of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan and held at Guantanamo for the past seven years.
February 6, 2009
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China's most wantedRowan Callick, Asia-Pacific editor | January 16, 2009Article from: The AustralianTHE 17 Guantanamo Bay inmates Washington wants to send Australia as it closes down its controversial camp for suspected terrorists are high on China's most-wanted list. They are Uyghurs, members of the nine-million-strong group of Turkic Muslims - some of them sandy-haired and blue-eyed - who live in the arid northwest Chinese region of Xinjiang, which is about the size of Queensland
January 15, 2009
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Free but homeless after Guantanamo
Source: BBC
On taking office, US President-elect Barack Obama is expected to quickly push for the closure of Guantanamo Bay - and the release of 60 detainees.
"Compared to the American interrogators, the Chinese were more brutal"
Adel Hakimjan
Former Guantanamo detainee
But as the plight of ex-inmate Adel Hakimjan, a Chinese Uighur, shows it will not be an easy solution, writes the BBC's Michael Buchanan.
He has been abused, persecuted, tr
January 8, 2009
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Uyghur Students 'Beaten by Police'
2008-12-11
Source: RFA
Authorities at a top university in the eastern Chinese city of Qingdao are talking to police after the alleged beating of five ethnic minority Uyghur students.
HONG KONG—Authorities at a top university in the eastern Chinese province of Shandong are in talks with police over the alleged beating of several ethnic minority Ugyhur students, two of whom were seriously injured, officials and school employees said.
"After they recove
December 11, 2008
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Disabled Uyghur Jailed as Security Threat
2008-12-03
Source: RFA
A disabled man from China's northwest is detained as a national security threat.
HONG KONG—Authorities in China’s northwestern Xinjiang region have detained a disabled man from the ethnic Uyghur minority on suspicion of endangering national security, according to the man’s father and local officials, in a case that sheds new light on how national security laws are applied in one of poorest, most remote corners of China.
December 4, 2008
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China: Legal wheels turn slowly for Uyghur Christian
Compass Direct News
November 11
DUBLIN, November 11 (Compass Direct News) – Chinese officials have yet to declare a new court date for Alimjan Yimit, a Christian house church leader and ethnic Uyghur in China’s northwest province of Xinjiang detained since his arrest on Jan. 12. Alimjan’s name appears as Alimujiang Yimiti in Chinese documents. State prosecutors in mid-October returned Alimjan’s case to a Xinjiang court for consi
November 12, 2008
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The edge of an empire
Source: newstatesman
Alice Albinia
Officially, China gets on well with its Muslims. Alice Albinia uncovers an altogether different story
Ethnic Uighur women in Kashgar.
The Id Kah Mosque in the city of Kashgar, in far-western China, is a peaceful and homely place, constructed from wood and with its prayer hall supported by tree-trunk pillars. Poplars dapple the courtyard with shadow; rose bushes line the pathways. It was built in 1442, and for the past fi
November 7, 2008
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Fate of Chinese Separatists Held in Guantanamo Uncertain
Written by Warren Mass
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Monday, 03 November 2008 17:29
A report in the British newspaper, the Guardian, for November 1 examined the plight of 17 members of a dissident ethnic Chinese group who have been incarcerated at the U.S. detention facility inside Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba for almost seven years. The men are members of the Uyghur ethnic group — Turkic-speaking Muslims who are seeking political autonomy from
November 3, 2008
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Uyghur Man, 121, tops list of oldest people in China (重阳节评出全国十大寿星 新疆121岁老翁居首)
Source: EOL.CN
A list of China's 10 oldest people was announced for the first time by the China Gerontology Association on Monday, ahead of the Seniors Day yesterday.
The 121-year-old Sadiq Sawut from the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region topped the list as the oldest man, while Maihefu Zihan, from the same region, was the oldest woman at 118.
Xinjiang has the highest
October 31, 2008
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Opening of Uighur photo exhibition part 1
Opening of Uighur photo exhibition part 2
Opening of Uighur photo exhibition part 3
October 30, 2008
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China Releases List Of Wanted Terror Group Leaders
Souece: CBS news
(AP) Chinese police on Tuesday called on foreign nations to arrest and extradite eight alleged Islamic terror group leaders accused plotting attacks during the Beijing Olympics.
The eight men, all Chinese citizens, are believed to have financed, incited and organized a series of terrorist activities during and around the Aug. 8-24 games as part of an ongoing insurgency against Chinese rule in the country's traditionally Mus
October 21, 2008
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Chinese Muslims No Longer Considered Enemy Combatants
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The filing of a short notice in federal court late on Tuesday was an admission by the Bush administration that the Chinese Muslim Uighurs currently detained at Guantanamo Bay no longer are considered enemy combatants but are being held only until another country will agree to take them in.
The notice filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, came in response to an August court order requiring the admin
October 5, 2008
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Uyghur Radio Worker Sacked, Detained
2008-09-08 Source: RFA
An official radio station in Xinjiang sacks an outspoken employee, who is now detained.
Undated photo supplied by RFA listener.
Mehbube Ablesh.
HONG KONG—Authorities at a Chinese government-run radio station in the remote Xinjiang region have fired and detained an ethnic Uyghur woman working there, apparently for criticizing government policy, Uyghur sources have said.
Mehbube Ablesh, 29, was removed from her post at
September 13, 2008
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Uyghur documentary 02 : Al-Jazeera on Islam in China
August 26, 2008
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