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CHINA - UIGHUR MUSLIM WOMAN

Ethnic & Religious Minority in China

Knowing smile

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

By HOWARD W. FRENCH

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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