This is a sister organization to RFE/RL. RFA has a Uyghur service, the only one outside of China.
Who are the Uyghurs? They are a Turkic people, mainly Sunni Muslim, living in the XUAR. Those letters stand for "Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region." The word "Autonomous" is a joke.
Uyghurs themselves don't use the name "Xinjiang," though Chinese do: It means "New territory," "New dominion," or "New frontier." In other words, "It's ours," China's.
Uyghurs themselves call their region "East Turkestan."
How many Uyghurs are there? The numbers are very hard to come by, as the Chinese government manipulates them.
Uyghur militants killed two Communist officials in December 2016.
In East Turkestan today, who is targeted? Everyone? Potentially, yes, but certain Uyghurs are most vulnerable.
Young Uyghurs are especially targeted - people under 40.
Nury Turkel notes a creepy and sinister fact: At the time of the Chinese New Year, in February, Chinese men arrived at Uyghur homes without heads of household - without husbands and fathers.
Chinese authorities have always harassed and hounded the Uyghurs, but the new horror began only a year ago.
Uyghurs in exile are frustrated that the media have paid so little attention to East Turkestan, where there is something like an emergency going on.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/05/new-gulag-in-china-uyghurs-thrown-into-reeducation-camps/
Who are the Uyghurs? They are a Turkic people, mainly Sunni Muslim, living in the XUAR. Those letters stand for "Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region." The word "Autonomous" is a joke.
Uyghurs themselves don't use the name "Xinjiang," though Chinese do: It means "New territory," "New dominion," or "New frontier." In other words, "It's ours," China's.
Uyghurs themselves call their region "East Turkestan."
How many Uyghurs are there? The numbers are very hard to come by, as the Chinese government manipulates them.
Uyghur militants killed two Communist officials in December 2016.
In East Turkestan today, who is targeted? Everyone? Potentially, yes, but certain Uyghurs are most vulnerable.
Young Uyghurs are especially targeted - people under 40.
Nury Turkel notes a creepy and sinister fact: At the time of the Chinese New Year, in February, Chinese men arrived at Uyghur homes without heads of household - without husbands and fathers.
Chinese authorities have always harassed and hounded the Uyghurs, but the new horror began only a year ago.
Uyghurs in exile are frustrated that the media have paid so little attention to East Turkestan, where there is something like an emergency going on.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/05/new-gulag-in-china-uyghurs-thrown-into-reeducation-camps/
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