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• Xinjiang/East Turkestan

  WUC Condemns Kunming Violence and Calls for Calm

  3 March 2014, by WUC

  The World Uyghur Congress (WUC) unequivocally condemns the violence that took place at Kunming railway station on 1 March 2014, in which 29 people were reportedly killed. The WUC expresses its condolences to the victims and their families.
  One named person has been implicated in the attack, (...)

• Xinjiang/East Turkestan

  FIDH calls for an independent and impartial investigation in Xinjiang

  10 July 2009, by FIDH

  International Federation for Human rights (FIDH)
  Press Release
  China
  FIDH calls for an independent and impartial investigation in Xinjiang
  Paris, 10 July 2009 - On 5 July, a protest in Urumqi, capital of northwest China’s Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, turned violent and the security (...)

• Xinjiang/East Turkestan

  Political repression in Xinjiang: The fight for the recognition of the Uyghur Community’s rights

  9 July 2009, by NPA

  The events that took place on July 5, 2009, in Urumqi – the capital town of the Xinjiang Autonomous Region, in far west China – and that have left its streets blood-stained, are “unprecedented” in the last twenty years. The extent of the events is so serious that President Hu Jintao has been (...)

• Xinjiang/East Turkestan

  The Uighurs and China: lost and found nation

  6 July 2009, by SHICHOR Yitzhak

  The broader roots of the eruption of protest in China’s far-west region of Xinjiang lie in the experience of the Uighur people under Beijing’s rule, says Yitzhak Shichor.
  The reports of violence and deaths in the city of Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang province in northwest China, draw renewed (...)

• Xinjiang/East Turkestan

  Kashgar’s old city: the politics of demolition

  3 April 2009, by SZADZIEWSKI Henryk

  The heart of Kashgar - a place where Uighur people have lived and worked for centuries - is being destroyed or transformed into a tourist theme-park, and its people resettled. In a pattern familiar in modern China no one has asked the Uighurs themselves, says Henryk Szadziewski.
  In the heart (...)

• Xinjiang/East Turkestan

  Yining: The city at the empire’s edge

  12 August 2008, by HOLDSTOCK Nick

  The Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous region of China has seen a series of clashes between the majority Uighurs and Han Chinese settlers since the 1980s. But it was in the city of Yining that the largest protest took place on 5 February 1997. Initially written off by the Chinese authorities as an (...)

• Xinjiang/East Turkestan

  Muslim ’separatists’ protest as unrest spreads in China

  2 April 2008, by BRANIGAN Tania

  Muslim Uighurs have held anti-government protests in the far western region of Xinjiang, Chinese officials have acknowledged, blaming separatists inspired by the unrest in Tibet.
  Demonstrators took to the streets at the weekly bazaar in Hotan on March 23, but news of the incident has only just (...)