Uyghurs live for the most part in northwestern China, in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region; a small number live in the Central Asian republics. There were some 10,000,000 Uyghurs in China and a combined total of at least 300,000 in Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan in the early 21st century.
The chief Uyghur cities are Ürümqi, the capital of Xinjiang, and Kashgar (Kashi), an ancient centre of trade on the historic Silk Road near the border between Russia and China. The Uyghurs have lacked political unity in recent centuries, except for a brief period during the 19th century when they were in revolt against Beijing. Their social organization is centred on the village. The Uyghurs of Xinjiang are Sunni Muslims.
Their principal food crops are wheat, corn (maize), kaoliang (a form of sorghum), and melons. The chief industrial crop is cotton, which has long been grown in the area. Many Uyghurs are employed in petroleum extraction, mining, and manufacturing in urban centres.
The Uighur, who are Muslims, form the largest Turkic-speaking minority. They are distributed over chains of oases in the Tarim and Junggar basins of Xinjiang and mainly depend on irrigated agriculture for a livelihood. Other Turkic minorities in Xinjiang are splinter groups of nationalities living in…
Indonesia . Indonesia is urging to take the Uighur issue to the OIC and the Indonesian Foreign Ministry has called on China to respect freedom of religion. Protests held in support of Uighurs are attended by hundreds and many organizations within the country are drawing attention to the issue.
Kazakhstan is using its diplomacy and its position as one of China’s major trade allies to raise concern over what is happening in East Turkestan.
The UN has been requesting access to Chinese camps amid growing concerns over the mistreatment of Uighur Muslims there. It is calling for China to immediately release all those illegally detained in camps.
Indian Muslims are protesting the human rights abuse that China is carrying out against its indigenous Uighur Muslim population.
Borders. Its borders with Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Kashmir, Kyrgyzstan, India, Afghanistan and Tajikistan make East Turkestan geographically lucrative for trade, tourism and development.
Traditionally known as East Turkistan, the province has been a prominent center of commerce for more than 2000 years. Beautiful, rich in culture as it is in resources, it has given birth to many civilizations and has been a cradle of scholarship, culture and power.
No taking away of children or placing men as forced guests in Uighur family homes.
With the September 11, 2001, attacks on the US, officials began using the spectre of “terrorism” to justify harsher religious restrictions, saying young Uighurs were susceptible to violent “extremism”.
Pompeo has previously called the mass detention “the stain of the century” and US senators across party lines are seeking to declare China’s treatment of the Uighurs as genocide.
In 2009, hundreds died in Xinjiang’s capital Urumqi in riots that largely targeted China’s majority Han. Activists say China is trying to forcibly integrate Uighurs by indoctrinating them with Communist ideology and making them renounce Islamic customs.
The faction is regularly blamed by China to justify its harsh crackdown in the Muslim-majority Xinjiang region. China has blamed the separatist East Turkestan Islamic Movement for attacks in the Xinjiang region, where many Muslim Uighurs resent the presence of Han Chinese people [Carlos Barria/Reuters] The United States has removed ...
The United States has removed from its list of “terrorist” groups a shadowy faction regularly blamed by China to justify its harsh crackdown in the Muslim-majority Xinjiang region. In a notice in the Federal Register, which publishes new US laws and rules, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said he was revoking the designation ...
Beijing has regularly blamed ETIM for attacks as it justifies its measures in Xinjiang, where rights groups say one million or more Uighurs or other Turkic-speaking, mostly Muslim people are held in camps.
The Khmer Rouge was based in __________ and headed up by the ruthless dictator Pol Pot.
The Khmer Rouge was based in __________ and headed up by the ruthless dictator Pol Pot.