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In recent years, UK-China relations have been strained, with tensions over issues including a crackdown on human rights in Hong Kong and the treatment of Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang.
From BBC ● Nov. 15, 2023
Ethnically Uighur, Mamat left China at age 12 after an uprising in the region of East Turkestan, where most of Mamat’s extended family still lives.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 20, 2023
A Chinese police officer takes his position by the road near what is officially called a vocational education centre in Yining in Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, China September 4, 2018.
From Reuters ● Feb. 19, 2022
China fears insurgents from its Uighur ethnic minority who want an independent Xinjiang region.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 5, 2022
Then there's a Uighur on my list—I'll appear to him in a shaman's hut and he'll assume I'm a devil.
From The Ego Machine by Henry Kuttner
