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URUMQI, Xinjiang, China – For a country of 1.3 billion – it should come as no surprise that China has at least 56 different officially recognized ethnic groups. But the largest ethnic group, the Han Chinese, are not just the majority – they dominate ...http://behindthewall.nbcnews.com/_news/2011/08/11/7347941-relations-between-uigh...
RAWALPINDI, Pakistan – The community of Uighurs in Rawalpindi’s China Market is small and close-knit. About 50 families have emigrated here from China’s Xinjiang Province over the past 30 years, focusing on cross-border trade and driving the ...http://behindthewall.nbcnews.com/_news/2010/11/09/5435051-uighurs-precariously-c...
BEIJING — Ethnic Uighur asylum-seekers forcibly repatriated over the weekend had warned the U.N. refugee agency they feared long jail terms or even the death penalty if they were sent back to China, according to statements seen by The Associated Press.http://www.nbcnews.com/id/34516860/ns/world_news-asia_pacific/t/uighurs-told-un-...
BEIJING — China has executed nine men, including eight from the Muslim Uighur minority, for crimes committed during July riots that killed 200 people in far western Xinjiang region. The men are the first to be put to death for the country's worst ethnic ...http://www.nbcnews.com/id/33786628/ns/world_news-asia_pacific/t/china-executes-u...
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Muslim Uighurs - Latest news, videos, and information- NBCNews.comhttp://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/090708-china-riot-cut-1.18a.grid-6x3.jpg
Uighurs - Latest news, videos, and information- NBCNews.comhttp://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/reuters/2012-06-25t082000z_8643632_gm1e86p195z01_rtrmadp_3_china.grid-6x3.jpg
Relations between Uighurs and Han Chinese not all bad - Behind The ...http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/110811_uighur_food.grid-6x3.jpg
The fact that Locke was unencumbered by an entourage and paying for ...http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/110811_uighurveilshop.grid-6x3.jpg
BEIJING –Months of speculation that America might snub China over a ...http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Video/090706/a_mong_china_090706.grid-6x3.jpg
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Updated May. 22, 2013
"“The Uighurs are the people whom old Russian travellers called Sart (a name which they used for sedentary, Turkish-speaking Central Asians in general), ...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uyghur_people
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Uighurs and China's Xinjiang Region. Author: Preeti Bhattacharji Updated: May 29, 2012http://www.cfr.org/china/uighurs-chinas-xinjiang-region/p16870
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A Turkic-speaking people of interior Asia. Uighurs live for the most part in northwestern China, in the Uygur Autonomous Region of Xinjiang; a small number live in ...http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/612772/Uighur
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News about Uighurs. Commentary and archival information about Uighurs from The New York Times.http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/u/uighurs_chinese_e...
