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Apr 12, 2019 · Summary. About eleven million Uyghurs—a mostly Muslim, Turkic-speaking ethnic group—live in the northwestern region of Xinjiang. The Chinese government has imprisoned more than one million people...
Mar 24, 2021 · Xinjiang, officially the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, is a vast and remote region in China’s far west. Stretching 1.6 million square kilometers (640,000 sq miles) from the Tibetan plateau...
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 ), [13] is an ongoing ethnic geopolitical conflict in what is now China 's far- northwest autonomous region of Xinjiang, also known as East Turkistan.
Aug 25, 2023 · 25 August 2023. Xinjiang, the largest and most westerly region of China, is bordered by eight countries including the former Soviet Central Asian republics, Mongolia, Afghanistan, Pakistan and...
Aug 31, 2022 · 31 August 2022 Human Rights. A long-awaited report by the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) into what China refers to as the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) has...
Area: 635,900 sq mi (1,646,900 sq km). Population: (2020) 25,852,345. Capital: Ürümqi. Bordered by the Kashmir region, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Russia, Mongolia, Gansu and Qinghai provinces, and Tibet autonomous region, Xinjiang is China’s largest political unit in area.
Dec 9, 2021 · China has committed genocide against the Uyghur people in Xinjiang, an unofficial UK-based tribunal has found. The Uyghur Tribunal cited birth control and sterilisation measures allegedly carried...
