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Photo Essay: Who Are the Uighurs?

What motivates China's restless Muslim minority?

BY JOSHUA KEATING | JULY 9, 2009

Meet the Uighurs: The majority of Uighurs live in Xinjiang, the massive western "autonomous region" that accounts for nearly a sixth of China's land area. At its height in the ninth century, the Uighur empire stretched from the Caspian Sea into eastern China. The Uighurs also managed to establish independent republics twice during the 20th century before being annexed by the People's Republic of China in 1949. Above, a Uighur man sells knives in the 2,000-year-old city of Kashgar on April 3, 2008.

 

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When did China intervene?

When did China "intervene to protect the Uighur community from ethnic reprisals"? Was it on June 6 and 7, when thousands of people took to the streets to bash their heads in?

 
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