On the streets of the cities and towns of China’s northwestern region of Xinjiang you can hear complaints from the Uighur minority group about restrictions on the Islamic religion they practice, their Turkic language or their culture, which is most closely linked to the lands of Central Asia. But in interviews in Urumqi, the regional capital that exploded with ethnic rioting last week that left 184 dead, the single most common complaint of Uighur residents is that they feel excluded from economic opportunity
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More Than 140 Dead in Clashes in China’s Xinjiang Province
Chinese authorities announced today that some 140 people had been killed and over 800 wounded in protests that roiled Urumqi, the capital of China’s far western Xinjiang province, on Sunday. According to the official news agency Xinhua, Urumqi police chief Liu Yaohua told a press conference that the number of dead was still rising and that there had also been extensive damage to property.
Four Uighur detainees from Gitmo sent to Bermuda
Four Chinese nationals of Uighur ethnicity held at the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, detention facility have been resettled in Bermuda, the U.S. Justice Department said Thursday
Palau: Next Stop After Gitmo?
For a small group of Guantánamo Bay detainees, life is moving from one island paradise to another. The United States announced Tuesday that it will transfer as many as 17 Chinese Muslims from the Cuba prison to Palau, a small Pacific island nation 500 miles east of the Philippines
Justice Dept. asks Supreme Court to reject Uighurs’ appeal
The Obama administration asked the Supreme Court to reject an appeal by Chinese Muslim dissidents who want to be brought to the United States after their release from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.