SHANGHAI — Chinese officials said Wednesday that
they were grappling with ethnic unrest on a second front, in the northwestern
region of Xinjiang, where Uighur Muslims protested Chinese rule last month even
as Tibetans rioted in the southwest....
WUNRN
CHINA - UIGHUR MUSLIM WOMAN
Ethnic & Religious Minority in
China
A young Uighur Muslim woman is pictured in a shop window in Kashgar, Xinjiang Province, China. Muslim residents of this ancient Silk Road city express quiet anger when asked about recent clashes in a nearby city between Muslims and Chinese police....
Mark Ralston, AFP
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/03/world/asia/03china.html?ref=world&pagewanted=print
The New York Times
April 3, 2008
China Confirms Protests
by Uighur Muslims
SHANGHAI — Chinese officials said Wednesday that
they were grappling with ethnic unrest on a second front, in the northwestern
region of Xinjiang, where Uighur Muslims protested Chinese rule last month even
as Tibetans rioted in the southwest....
The news of the protest in Xinjiang underscored
the breadth of China’s problems with ethnic and religious minority groups in
the country’s vast western regions, where there is a long history of
unhappiness with Chinese rule......
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