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Fear and oppression in Xinjiang: China’s war on Uighur culture

28 mins | Sep 19, 2019
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Life for minorities living under fear and oppression in China. Xinjiang is the traditional homeland of the Turkic-speaking Uighurs. Christian Shepherd writing in the Financial Times speaks with those that have managed to flee abroad, and paints a deeply disturbing picture of Beijing’s push toward a single ‘state-race’.

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