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The Uyghurs, alternatively spelled Uighurs, Uygurs or Uigurs, are a Turkic ethnic group originating from and culturally affiliated with the general region of Central and East Asia. The Uyghurs are recognized as the titular nationality of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in Northwest China.
- Uyghur Language
Uyghur or Uighur (/ ˈ w iː ɡ ʊər,-ɡ ər /; ئۇيغۇر تىلى, Уйғур...
- List of Uyghurs
In 1646 Turpan was granted by Qing China the rights to trade...
- Kyrgyzstan
There is a population of Uyghurs in Kyrgyzstan (Kyrgyz:...
- Uyghurs in Kazakhstan
In June 2011, a Uyghur schoolteacher fleeing Xinjiang police...
- Uyghur Khaganate
The Uyghur Khaganate (also Uyghur Empire or Uighur...
- Turkey
At that time, the Syrian Ambassador to China had stated that...
- Uyghur Americans
Uyghur Americans protest in front of the White House against...
- Islam in China
Islam has been practiced in China since the 7th century CE....
- Titular Nation
China. The People's Republic of China government has adopted...
- Äynu Language
Äynu (also known as Abdal) is a Turkic cryptolect spoken in...
- Uyghur Language
As of July 2020, Amnesty International had not taken a position on whether the Chinese government's treatment of Uyghurs constituted a genocide. [393] In June 2021, Amnesty released a report saying that China's treatment of Uyghurs constituted crimes against humanity. [484]
The history of the Uyghur people, including their ethnic origin, is an issue of contention between Uyghur nationalists and Chinese authorities. Uyghur historians view Uyghurs as the original inhabitants of Xinjiang, with a long history.
The Xinjiang conflict (Chinese: 新疆冲突), also known as the East Turkistan conflict, Uyghur–Chinese conflict or Sino-East Turkistan conflict (as argued by the East Turkistan Government-in-Exile), is an ongoing ethnic geopolitical conflict in what is now China's far-northwest autonomous region of Xinjiang, also known as East Turkistan.
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Since 2014, the Chinese government, under the administration of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) General Secretary Xi Jinping, has pursued policies in its Xinjiang region that have resulted in the incarceration of more than an estimated one million Turkic Muslims in internment camps without any legal process. This is the largest-scale detention of...
Investigative methods
The report was created by the United Nations through a thorough review of evidence documented by the OHCHR. Several forms of evidence were considered in making the report, including interviews with several dozen people who lived in Xinjiang at the time that abuses had been publicly reported. The report also focused its analysis on what the Chinese government had publicly stated contemporaneously with the reported abuses, including public Chinese government documents and laws promulgated at th...
Findings
The report's findings included that a large number of abuses had occurred within Xinjiang, corroborating academic research and public reporting on the abuses in the largely ethnic minority region.The report concluded that human rights abuses against Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims in Xinjiang are serious and widespread.
Recommendations
The report contains recommended courses of action for governmental actors, the United Nations, and for the broad international community. Among the recommendations for the Government of China are that it ratify the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance, and the Optional Protocols to the Convention against Torture, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination an...
The government said that the report was "based on the disinformation and lies fabricated by anti-China forces," publishing a 131-page counter-report. The Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that the assessment was "invalid and illegal."The government mounted pressure on UN rights chief Michelle Bachelet through diplomatic channels. North Korea...
Xinjiang internment camps have been described as "the most extreme example of China's inhumane policies against Uighurs". The camps were established in 2017 by the administration of CCP general secretary Xi Jinping.
Uyghurs in Beijing are both first generation Uyghurs who arrived Beijing as of 2007; and second generation Uyghurs perceive themselves as Beijingers.
